Tag: Network for Engineering With Nature
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July 2022 Knowledge Series: Consideration of Natural Infrastructure for Flood Hazard Reduction: in a numerical modeling framework
Matthew Bilskie, University of Georgia Using science and engineering to produce operational efficiencies, using natural processes to maximize benefit, increasing the value provided by projects to include social, environmental and economic benefits, using collaborative processes to organize, engage and focus interests, stakeholders and partners. Watch the recording here. The N-EWN Knowledge Series offers 1 Continuing…
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Progress and Hope at the UGA and ERDC In-Person Workshop
Last week, we had our first in-person meeting for the Network for Engineering With Nature UGA-ERDC crew since COVID-19 shut down travel in 2019. Throughout our two days in Athens, Georgia, we heard from each research team, learned about how their work has evolved over time, and brainstormed about how we can continue to accelerate…
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June 2022 Knowledge Series: Economic Valuation of Nature-Based Infrastructure
Ben Blachly, Susana Ferreira, Yukiko Hashida, Grace Anne Ingham, Craig E Landry & Anna Perry The common method used to calculate Benefit-cost analysis does not incorporate the often-times greater long-term benefits of natural infrastructure (NI) over conventional approaches, putting the selection of NI at a disadvantage. Several groups are moving toward an ecosystem services approach to identifying benefits that people obtain…
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Predicting Uncertainty: N-EWN researcher develops models to more accurately predict and map flood zones
Flooding in urban areas cost Americans over $106 billion dollars from 1960 through 2016 in damage, and took lives and livelihoods. Predicting which areas are most likely to flood amid changing land use and rainfall can be expensive and complicated—and past methods of drawing flood maps fail to capture the inherent uncertainty in flood predictions.…
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May 2022 Knowledge Series: Toolkit for ERDC’s Coastal Storm (CSTORM) Modeling System
Amanda Tritinger, USACE & Matthew Bilskie, UGA Currently, incorporating EWN-based flood protection and restoration designs into storm surge and wave numerical modeling systems is a time-consuming and laborious process. Leveraging codes from the developed Coastal STORM (CSTORM) model framework, this research develops an EWN CSTORM toolkit that can be implemented to streamline the inclusion of EWN…
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Happening today! The NASEM Benefits, Applications and Opportunities of Natural Infrastructure Workshop
We’re excited that the NASEM Benefits, Applications and Opportunities of Natural Infrastructure Workshop is finally happening! The event explores the benefits, applications, and opportunities of natural infrastructure and its efficacy in areas such as natural hazard resilience, climate change adaptation, and sustainable, multi-purpose infrastructure. N-EWN Member Dr. Marshall Shepherd snapped the photo above of Provost…
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N-EWN Partners win University of Georgia, Office of Research Awards
This past week, the University of Georgia’s Office of Research announced the winners of the 43rd annual Research Awards. Sponsored by the University of Georgia Research Foundation, the awards recognize UGA faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students for excellence and innovation in research, scholarly creativity, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. N-EWN and IRIS had several faculty…
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April 2022 Knowledge Series: Restoring the Nisqually River
Daniel Krenz, USACE In 2009, the tidal waters of Puget Sound breached the Brown Farm Dike in efforts to restore the Nisqually Delta. This was the culmination of the largest tidal marsh restoration project in the Pacific Northwest. Daniel Krenz, regulatory section chief and project manager with the USACE Seattle District, discusses the history of…
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March 2022 Knowledge Series: Refining a Vision for Future Synergy Between Infrastructure and Biodiversity Conservation
Charles van Rees, UGA This webinar focuses on the relationship between Biodiversity and its conservation and Infrastructure and related disciplines, why this is important for today’s challenges, what this relationship looks like, how it has changed, and what it will look like in the future. Dr. Charles B. van Rees addresses what we can do…
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Improving flood literacy: GA DNR Coastal Resources Division develops new tool
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources recently developed a new tool as part of their Georgia Flood Literacy Project. This project is intended to create clear language around flooding, so that the public has a better understanding of the risks they face from flooding. As the story map says, “The way flood terms are used…