Our Mission
At ERDC's Environmental Laboratory (EL), our mission is to provide innovative solutions for tomorrow's environmental challenges.
What We Do
We conduct research in the following areas:
- Ecosystem science and technology
- Environmental resiliency
- Environmental sensing
- Ecological modeling and forecasting
- Risk and decision science
- Environmentally sustainable material
- Systems biology
- Climate change
- Environmental security
We provide solutions to environmental challenges worldwide, including:
- Analytical chemistry
- Aquatic and wetland ecosystems
- Chemistry, cleanup, and remediation
- Dredging and dredged material management
- Fate and effects
- Geospatial analysis and mapping
- Hazardous/toxic waste assessment and cleanup
- Invasive and threatened/endangered species
- Molecular ecology
- Modeling and ecosystem restoration
- Risk assessment, sensing, and monitoring
- Stewardship/recreation and benefits analysis
- Unexploded ordnance detection and ordnance management
- Wetlands technology