Environmental Science & Planning

Students and professionals involved in environmental studies, resource management, or design, may not have or need a deep quantitative understanding of fluid mechanics or physics. The experimental, hands-on experience of working with Emriver models allows students to gain an intuitive understanding of the conservation of mass and energy as expressed in these dynamic systems. This provides a great foundation for work in a variety of disciplines.

Example Topics and Classes

• Environmental planning: Urban and regional planning with a focus on sustainability.
• Water resources management and human impact on surface waters
• River processes and restoration
• Watershed ecology and planning
• Hydrology for planners
• Ecological design
• Environmental geology
• Urban ecology
• Stream ecology: Hydrographs, long and cross profiles, etc.
• Environmental problem-solving

Example Applications

• The Harvard REAL Lab in landscape architecture has used the Em3 dual tilt in very creative ways.

• Tidelands is a partnership between Engineering with Nature (EWN), Auburn University’s Landscape Infrastructure Design Lab (LIDL), the University of Virginia’s Natural Infrastructure Lab (NIL), and the University of Pennsylvania’s EMLab. All three institutions own and use our Em4 Stream Tables to help understand, visualize and communicate the impacts of different approaches to infrastructure design.

Learn more about their projects here: https://tidelands.us/

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