Proceedings from the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)–National Ocean Service (NOS) : Ecological Habitat Modeling Workshop

Herman, Brook D.; Swannack, Todd M.; King, James J.; Whitfield, Paula E.; Davis, Jenny; Szimanski, Danielle; Bryant, Duncan B.; Gailani, Joseph Z.; Whitbeck, Matt; Golden, Rebecca R.

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“…Examples of EWN supporting NNBF implementation include innovative dredging technologies and practices that can be used to sustain NNBFs, and the development of methods for quantifying the ecosystem services and engineering and flood risk reduction benefits provided by restored islands (Herman et al 2020;Polk et al 2022;Sella et al 2022). EWN is currently advancing practice for island creation and restoration as an NNBF measure that is enabled by the beneficial use of dredged sediment (Herman et al 2020;Davis et al 2022; Box 2). Other projects use physical models to examine and understand the interactions between flood surges, waves, and NNBF, which advances the understanding of how NNBF can reduce flooding and erosion (Brauman et al 2022).…”

Section: Re-envisioning Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Engineering With Nature®mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…EWN is currently advancing practice for island creation and restoration as an NNBF measure that is enabled by the beneficial use of dredged sediment (Herman et al. 2020; Davis et al. 2022; Box 2).…”

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Transforming Institutions to Connect Land and Water for Healthy Communities

Endter‐Wada

Sternlieb²,

Welsh

et al. 2022

J American Water Resour Assoc

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Interconnected global environmental and societal risks threaten the health of human and ecological communities. Institutions are avenues through which people can mobilize to respond, but institutional landscapes are fragmented. We focus on the need for institutional change in environmental management and water services to better connect land and water in the United States. Using a historical institutionalist approach and insights from sustainability transitions research, we analyze four diverse examples of connecting land and water occurring across public and private institutions where people are putting innovative perspectives and principles into practice: National Environmental Policy Act, Engineering with Natureâ; Water Utilities as Anchor Institutions, and Growing Water Smart. Comparative analysis of these examples focuses on the particular risks these institutions are responding to, how each connects land and water to promote healthy communities, the institutional transformations that are occurring, how problems are being reframed, how leadership and mobilization are driving change, what tools help bridge multiple boundaries, and what new ways of knowing and action strategies are emerging. Our examples focus on transformations within and between institutions in recognition of their importance for driving larger system change. Findings reinforce previous research on the critical role of human agency and boundary spanning in facilitating and steering sustainability transitions.

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Welsh

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“…Initially, the project team came together in a series of iterative, groupmediated workshops to develop project goals and a conceptual model describing interactions between the island's physical properties and biological communities (Grant and Swannack 2008). The outcome was a refining of the team's project goals, a conceptual model (Figure 17), a monitoring program, and the development of a monitoring and adaptive management plan (MAMP) (Herman et al 2020). The overarching project seeks to quantify the coastal-resilience performance of Swan Island in terms of reducing wave energy and erosion to nearby shorelines and habitats.…”

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Engineering With Nature® principles in action : islands

Whitfield¹,

Suedel²,

Egan³

et al. 2022

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The Engineering With Nature® (EWN) Program supports nature-based solutions that reduce coastal-storm and flood risks while providing environmental and socioeconomic benefits. Combining the beneficial use of dredged sediments with the restoration or creation of islands increases habitat and recreation, keeps sediment in the system, and reduces coastal-storm and flood impacts. Given the potential advantages of islands, EWN seeks to support science-based investigations of island performance, impacts, and benefits through collaborative multidisciplinary efforts. Using a series of case studies led by US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) districts and others, this technical report highlights the role of islands in providing coastal resilience benefits in terms of reducing waves and erosion as well as other environmental and socioeconomic benefits to the communities and the ecosystems they reside in.

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“…Article MODELING Natural systems are inherently dynamic in space and time, and respond to environmental drivers that are equally dynamic. To address the inherent uncertainty associated with the long-term performance of Swan Island, the project team is developing an integrated hydrodynamic and ecological simulation model that will assist in testing assumptions about how the island and its component habitat types will change as the site matures, and in response to changes in environmental drivers (Herman et al 2020). On-the-ground monitoring efforts at Swan Island will provide the data necessary to parameterize and evaluate the simulation model.…”

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A framework for evaluating island restoration performance: A case study from the Chesapeake Bay

Davis

Whitfield

Szimanski

et al. 2021

Integr Envir Assess & Manag

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The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Funding for the work described here is provided by a combination of sources including USACE's Engineering With Nature (EWN) Initiative and the Dredge Operations and Environmental Research (DOER) Program; NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science; cooperative agreement F18AC00019 through which USFWS provides funding to MDDNR. Special thanks to USACE Baltimore District Big Thorofare/Twitch Cove Maintenance Dredging Project Delivery Team, USFWS site managers for field work facilitation, as well as Shay Viehman and Carolyn Currin of (NCCOS) for critical reviews of this communication. Data Availability: There are no data associated with this submission EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is part of the special series "Incorporating Nature-based Solutions to the Built Environment." The series documents the way in which the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets can be addressed when naturebased solutions (NBS) are incorporated into the built environment. This series presents cutting-edge environmental research and policy solutions that promote sustainability from the perspective of how the science community contributes to SDG implementation through new technologies, assessment and monitoring methods, management best practices, and scientific research.

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Proceedings from the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)–National Ocean Service (NOS) : Ecological Habitat Modeling Workshop

Cited by 6 publications

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Transforming Institutions to Connect Land and Water for Healthy Communities

Transforming Institutions to Connect Land and Water for Healthy Communities

Engineering With Nature® principles in action : islands

A framework for evaluating island restoration performance: A case study from the Chesapeake Bay

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