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  • September

    Eight participants from across the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were chosen for ERDC University, a six-month detail at the Engineer Research and Development Center. ERDC University graduation was held September 10 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Participants included from front row from left to right Garrett Watson and Jeff Crockett. Back row from left to right Kyle Gordon, Rhonda Taylor, David Clement, Antisa Webb, Mary Bradley Warnock, Col. Christian Patterson, Dr. Gary Anderton, Patricia Sullivan, Dr. John McEnery, Meg Zuercher, Eliot Bignel, Bradley Sartain, Dave Smith, Alex Bredikhin, Brooke Weaver, Jake Edwards, Aaron Damrill, Todd Slack

    Corps of Engineers District selectees graduate from ERDC University

    Participants from eight U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Districts graduated from ERDC University (ERDC-U) in September. Now in its ninth year, ERDC-U pairs Corps division and district participants with relevant laboratory mentors for six-month research projects.
  • During the 2024 summer, ERDC hosted a record-breaking number of interns at its seven laboratories. This year’s historic rise in ERDC student interns is an agency best, setting a record for recruitment and growth in student participation.

    ERDC earns high scores on annual student survey

    This summer, ERDC hosted a record-breaking number of interns at its seven laboratories—544 of them to be exact. Ninety-five percent of the students, interns, and fellows who worked at the organization during Fiscal Year 2024 agreed in an annual student survey that ERDC’s work activities provided a positive learning experience.
  • ERDC-CRREL scientists (from left to right) Tricia Nelsen, Dr. Chris Polashenski and Roy Hessner prepare for drilling through the Arctic sea ice to install an Ice Mast Balance Buoy.

    ERDC-CRREL scientists install sensor-laden buoys in one of the planet’s “hardest places” to reach

    As part of NASA's ARCSIX research program, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory scientists Dr. Chris Polashenski, Tricia Nelsen and Roy Hessner engineered and deployed specially modified, sensor-laden buoys into the Arctic Ocean north of Canada and Greenland near the North Pole in an effort to help NASA better understand Arctic sea ice melting.

  • August

    Robert Moser

    ERDC selects new Information Technology Laboratory director

    VICKSBURG, Miss. – The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) has selected Dr. Robert Moser as the new director of the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL). As director, Moser will lead a team of approximately 700 federal and contractor personnel who work in the areas of information technology, high-performance computing, data analytics, software engineering, scientific visualization and more. Additionally, he will oversee the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program.

  • July

    ERDC-CERL, USDA Forest Products Laboratory and Joint Munitions Command teams preparing to begin field work studies in Earth Covered Magazines (ECMs) at Crane Army Ammunition Activity

    ERDC researchers combat corrosion and mold at Crane Army Ammunition Activity

    In Crane, Indiana, researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) are assisting in a critical battle against time and nature. Within the vast expanses of Crane Army Ammunition Activity (CAAA), lie thousands of Earth Covered Magazines (ECMs) — crucial semi-buried bunkers that safeguard the nation's munitions and explosives.

  • May

    Joycelynn Brooks stands in the ERDC library in Vicksburg, MS.

    Bridging the gap: ERDC partners with Google Books

    VICKSBURG, Miss. – The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) library is the first in the Department of Defense (DoD) to take part in a partnership with Google Books – a digital database that contains the full text of books, magazines and other printed material, allowing the user easy accessibility to information on the topic of interest.
  • Dr. David Horner receives a pin from Dr. David Pittman at retirement ceremony

    ERDC’s Director of the Information Technology Laboratory Retires

    VICKSBURG, Miss. – Dr. David A. Horner, director of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Information Technology Laboratory (ITL), has retired after 40 years of civil service. A retirement ceremony was held in honor of the Clinton, Mississippi, native on May 21, 2024, at ITL.
  • Two research scientists from ERDC's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Drs. Elias Deeb (left) and Zoe Courville, served as the inspiration behind, and subject matter experts on, the production of “Ice Core Research,” a 30-second commercial that captures an Army Civilian physical scientist and his team as they drill ice core samples.

    ERDC researchers inspire national commercial promoting Army Civilian Careers

    The two research scientists from the U.S. Army Engineer and Research Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) served as the inspiration behind, and subject matter experts on, the production of “Ice Core Research,” a 30-second commercial that captures an Army Civilian physical scientist and his team as they drill ice core samples.

  • April

    Dr. David Pittman, ERDC director and director of research and development and chief scientist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, welcomes participants to the ERDC’s Research and Development 2024 (RD24) workshop. RD24 gave researchers across the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the ability to come together to showcase their expertise and create new, multidisciplinary collaborations within the organization.

    ERDC’s RD24 proves huge success

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) recently hosted their Research and Development 2024 (RD24) workshop.
  • Poe Lock ship arrestor contractor OCCI, Inc. of Fulton Missouri installs the largest U.S. civil works component produced by a 3D printer at the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan on March 1, 2024.

    Infrastructure Innovation: New Poe Lock arrestor arm is the largest U.S. civil works component produced by 3D printer

    As America’s civil works infrastructure ages, managers need innovative solutions to replace parts that have been in service for nearly a century. Often, these original components were fabricated using vintage material and manufacturing methods, making them costly, burdensome and time-consuming to replace. Responding to this need, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is employing cutting-edge 3D-printing techniques to manufacture these parts faster and at a lower cost while maintaining, and even improving, their properties.

  • March

    Dr. Ivan Beckman (orange coat), acting director of ERDC's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), and performer team members of the Ice Control for cold Environments (ICE) program inspect ice samples inside a ERDC-CRREL cold box.

    DARPA ‘ICE’ program kicks off at ERDC-CRREL

    Making ice work “for” and not “against” the U.S. military is the mission behind Ice Control for cold Environments (ICE), a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program that recently kicked off at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire.

  • February

    Lead Instructor Mike Crawford advises a group of program participants during a railroad training exercise.

    ERDC experts lead railroad repair training at Fort Johnson

    FORT JOHNSON, La.—Making railroads safer was the focus of a recent training led by experts from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL).
  • Matt Balazik, research ecologist with ERDC-EL’s Wetlands and Coastal Ecology Branch, and his team collect an adult Atlantic sturgeon for tagging in an effort to track their reproductive habits in relation to dredge operations.

    ERDC researchers assess time-of-year restrictions for James River dredging

    Researchers at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory (EL) are conducting field studies along the lower James River in Virginia to assess the environmental impacts of dredging and if they continue to justify the existing time-of-year restrictions (TOYR) for dredging in the area.

  • January

    Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory research physical scientist Hannah Wittmann in Antarctica. Wittmann and fellow scientist Dr. Zoe Courville recently returned from Antarctica, where they performed critical crevasse detection and mitigation on the most problematic portion of the roughly 1,000-mile long South Pole Traverse (SPoT) route, a three-mile wide shear zone where the McMurdo and Ross ice shelves meet.

    ERDC researcher experiences ‘awesome’ maiden trip to Antarctica

    Hannah Wittmann, a research physical scientist at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire, recently returned from her first trip to Antarctica, where she helped perform critical crevasse detection and mitigation work along the roughly 1,000-mile long South Pole Traverse (SPoT) route.

  • December

    Staff from a Department of Defense Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (MIIs) member company demonstrates technology during the Office of the Secretary of Defense Manufacturing Technology Program's (OSD ManTech) Point of Need Challenge held at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H., Dec. 4, 2023.

    ERDC hosts first-of-its-kind cold weather manufacturing challenge

    The Office of the Secretary of Defense Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Program’s hosted the first-of-its-kind Point of Need Manufacturing Challenge, December 4-8, at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire.

  • November

    Computer scientist Tung “Alex” Ly with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) invented the “Digital Buoy Systems and Method” in his laboratory at ERDC’s Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL), Alexandria, Virginia. He received a patent in May 2022 for his digital system which will help reduce operational costs to the U.S. Government and provide real-time, reliable and enhanced marine navigation safety for U.S. private, public and commercial industries.

    Army’s Digital Buoy System selected as R&D 100 finalist

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) collaborative effort with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Army Geospatial Center (AGC) on a Digital Buoy System has been selected as a 2023 R&D 100 Finalist in the IT/Electrical category.
  • An ice researcher at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory prepares thin sections from an ice block made with additives to increase strength and melt resistance of ice. The research is performed in a cold environmental chamber within the laboratory’s Cold Room Complex. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Joseph Bara)

    ERDC’s Asenath-Smith assists DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office program team

    Dr. Emily Asenath-Smith knows a lot about the science of ice, and as a research materials engineer with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), she is uniquely suited to take on a wide range of research challenges with ice.

  • October

    Twelve participants from across the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were chosen for ERDC University, a six-month detail at the Engineer Research and Development Center. ERDC University orientation was held February 28-March 1 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Participants included, front row from left, Director Rhonda Taylor, ERDC Office of Research and Technology Transfer (ORTT); Nakita Smith, Pittsburgh District reality specialist; Michael Deegan, USACE Institute for Water Resources social scientist; Zahraa Al Khafaji, Chicago District project engineer; ERDC Deputy Director Dr. Beth Fleming; Joe Hernandez, Sacramento District economist; and Canda Lorson, New Orleans District hydrologist. Leaders and participants in back row, from left, included Director Gary Anderton, Human Capital Office; Kyle Bayliff, Sacramento District chemist; Garrett Hall, Dalles Dam, Oregon mechanical engineer; Jose Paredez, Los Angeles District civil engineer; Kyle Tidwell, Portland District fish biologist; Luke Navarro, Nashville District natural resources specialist; and ERDC University Program Manager Antisa Webb, ORTT Technology, Knowledge and Outreach Division. (Not pictured, Michael Mansfield, Kansas City District hydrologist; Ian Markovich, Jacksonville District biologist.)

    Corps of Engineers District selectees graduate from ERDC University

    Participants from nine U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Districts and the Institute for Water Resources graduated from ERDC University in September, following project presentations to the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) senior leaders.
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) New Orleans District started augmenting an underwater sill in the Mississippi River to slow progression of salt water upstream, October 1, 2023. USACE continues to closely monitor, survey and model conditions on the river with regards to potential impacts on both navigation and saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico. Researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center are assisting in assessment and mitigation efforts. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Ryan Labadens)

    ERDC researchers assist with saltwater intrusion efforts in southern Louisiana

    As residents of Louisiana prepare for possible disruptions in their drinking water caused by saltwater intrusion, researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) are assisting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) New Orleans District with assessment and mitigation efforts.

  • September

    CRREL's Alex Littlefield (left) and Dr. Sora Haley (right) speak with onlookers during the Open House tour.

    ERDC-Vicksburg laboratories celebrate 25th anniversary with Open House

    Laboratories from across the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) showcased their expertise, experiments and research as part of a celebration honoring the agency's 25th anniversary.