Engineer Research and Development Center Fact Sheets

Hudson Integrated Coastal Engineering Research Facility (HICERF)

Press Operations — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:38:00 GMT

The Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Hudson Integrated Coastal Engineering Research Facility (HICERF) directional wave basin is a state-of-the-art resource for discovery, development, and delivery of fundamental research and operational needs in the coastal environment. By reproducing littoral and nearshore hydrodynamics, the HICERF basin addresses both civilian and military needs through physical modeling including fluid-structure interaction, coastal infrastructure, coastal processes, sediment transport, wave hydrodynamics, and natural and nature-based features.

Field Research Facility Data Integration Framework (FDIF)

Press Operations — Fri, 28 May 2021 19:46:00 GMT

ERDC-CHL operates the Field Research Facility (FRF) at Duck, North Carolina, where we maintain a number of oceanographic datasets, including winds, waves, water levels, currents and beach morphology. Together, these datasets provide a 42-year record of coastal conditions (as of 2022) and have become an important national resource for our coastal engineering and scientific communities. To preserve this important national archive, CHL’s Coastal Observation & Analysis Branch developed the FRF Data Integration Framework (FDIF) with the help of industry partner RPS ASA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District Spatial Data Branch. The FDIF represents a combination of processes, standards, people, and tools used to transform disconnected enterprise data into useful, easily accessible information for analysis and reporting.

FunWave

Press Operations — Fri, 28 May 2021 19:28:00 GMT

What is FUNWAVE-TVD?FUNWAVE–TVD is the Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) version of the fully

G2CRM

Press Operations — Fri, 28 May 2021 07:34:00 GMT

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE or Corps) has a mission to manage flood risks:“The USACE

FATE models

Press Operations — Fri, 28 May 2021 07:21:00 GMT

STFATE - Short term fate of dredged material; SSFATE -Suspended sediment fate; LTFATE - Long term

ENSITE

Press Operations — Fri, 28 May 2021 07:10:00 GMT

Engineering Site Identification for the Tactile Environment (ENSITE) is dedicated to empowering

Dredging Optimization

Press Operations — Fri, 28 May 2021 07:03:00 GMT

Optimization capability produces slate of dredge funding allocations across projects that minimizes potential cargo disruptions nationwide

DREDGE

Press Operations — Fri, 28 May 2021 06:53:00 GMT

DREDGE was developed to assist users in making a priori assessments of environmental impacts from proposed dredging operations.

DRT

Press Operations — Fri, 28 May 2021 06:45:00 GMT

DRT is a CIRP-developed tool to rapidly simulate dune volume changes in response to waves and wind.

Currituck Sound Monitoring Array

Press Operations — Fri, 28 May 2021 06:32:00 GMT

Significant progress has been made towards understanding circulation dynamics/hydrodynamics and

CSHORE

Press Operations — Fri, 28 May 2021 06:21:00 GMT

A simple and robust 1-D nearshore model for predicting hydrodynamics and profile change from depth

Corps Shoaling Analysis Tool (CSAT)

Press Operations — Fri, 28 May 2021 06:15:00 GMT

The CSAT calculates channel shoaling volumes using historical channel surveys and uses the shoaling rates to predict future dredging volumes.

Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar

Press Operations — Fri, 28 May 2021 06:12:00 GMT

The Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar (CZMIL) is a new sensor development effort within the National Coastal Mapping Program (NCMP).

CLARIS

Press Operations — Fri, 28 May 2021 05:46:00 GMT

Coastal Lidar and Radar Imaging System is a suite of sensors mounted on a 4x4 van that we use to survey the sub-aerial beach and dune pre/during/post-storms and quarterly throughout the year.

eHydro

Press Operations — Thu, 27 May 2021 08:10:00 GMT

Maintenance responsibility for more than 25,000 miles of navigation channels and 400 ports and

CSMART

Press Operations — Thu, 27 May 2021 07:32:00 GMT

Coastal Structures, Management Analysis, and Ranking Tool

The Coastal Model Test Bed (CMTB)

Press Operations — Mon, 17 May 2021 14:57:00 GMT

The Coastal Model Test Bed (CMTB) has been developed to evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of

Coastal Modeling System (CMS)

Press Operations — Mon, 10 May 2021 06:50:00 GMT

The Coastal Modeling System is an integrated 2D numerical modeling system for simulating waves, current, water level, sediment transport, and morphology change at coastal inlets and entrances.

CLARIS

Press Operations — Mon, 10 May 2021 06:45:00 GMT

Coastal Lidar and Radar Imaging System is a suite of sensors mounted on a 4x4 van that we use to

Coastal Hazard System

Press Operations — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 13:33:00 GMT

Coastal hazards such as storm surge, waves, currents, wind, and rainfall associated with hurricanes and extratropical storms can have devastating effects on coastal communities.