Julie Eaton Ernst
Climate Resilience and Adaptation
- Role
- Resilient Infrastructure Solutions Practice Leader at HNTB
- Location
- Lowell, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Julie Eaton Ernst
Julie Eaton Ernst is a licensed professional civil engineer devoted to transforming our built, natural, and social environments to be resilient, sustainable, healthy, and equitable. She specializes in integrating climate projections into civil design practices using a risk-based approach and navigating the intersection of policy and engineered solutions-Climate resilience has been my passion since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans during my freshman orientation at Tulane University. Shocked from the devastation, I dedicated my first undergraduate career to understanding why it happened and how it could have been prevented from a political science and urban planning standpoint leading to a Bachelor’s degrees in Political Science (University of Rochester). I started taking engineering classes to understand how the levees failed and the role of the Army Corps of Engineers, which led me to my second Bachelor\'s and Master\'s degree in Civil Engineering (UMass Lowell). My policy background combined with my engineering experience allows me to understand the complexities of stakeholder management and resilient engineering systems. I have led several award-winning projects that have set standards for integrating climate resilience with planning and design, including the RMAT Statewide Climate Resilience Design Standards Tool and Boston’s Climate Resilience Design Guidelines for protecting rights-of-way. I have worked with Massachusetts State Agencies and municipalities on numerous vulnerability assessments. I have supported the design and construction of several award-winning resilient Boston parks, including Langone & Puopolo Park and Moakley Park. Through my work elevating industry standards and translating them to real-world construction projects, I actively collaborates with engineers, architects, planners, scientists, government stakeholders, non-profit organizations, and local communities. I currently serve as chair of the Climate Change and Air Committee for the Environmental Business Council of New England and on the External Advisory Board of the Sustainable Solutions Lab at UMass Boston. I am a recipient of the 2018 Ascending Leader Award from EBC, and 2022 Young Professional of the Year Award from ACEC Massachusetts and ACEC Nationals.
Experience
Resilient Infrastructure Solutions Practice Leader
Oct 2023 — Present · US
Education
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Master's Degree, Civil and Environmental Engineering - Geotechnical Engineering Option
2014 — 2016
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Bachelor's Degree, Civil and Environmental Engineering
2012 — 2014
Brimmer and May School
High School
2005
University of Rochester
Bachelor's Degree, Political Science (BA); Structural Design (T5)
2006 — 2010
University of Rochester
Take Five, Structural Design
2008 — 2010
Tulane University
n/a, Musical Theater
2005 — 2006
Skills
- Water Resource Management
- Soil
- Microsoft Excel
- Autocad
- Sheet Pile Wall Analysis
- Sustainability
- Surveying
- Coastal Resiliency
- Analysis
- Water
- Community Outreach
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Professional Development
- Environmental Awareness
- New Orleans Politics
- Research
- Microsoft Office
- Sales
- Civil Engineering
- Technical Writing
- Editing
- Teaching
- Proposal Writing
- Event Planning
- Project Planning
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Engineering
- Resume Writing
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