What We Do

What We Do

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