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  • August

    Kyle Bayliff, a chemist with the Sacramento District, was selected as a participant for the ERDC University Class of 2023. His six-month project with ERDC's Environmental Laboratory will focus on the interaction of ionic liquids and quantum spin liquids.

    Sacramento District's Kyle Bayliff selected for ERDC University

    Researchers from 10 U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Districts have been selected for the 2023 session of the Engineer Research and Development Center University (ERDC-U). Kyle Bayliff, a chemist with the Sacramento District, has been chosen to participate in the detail program.
  • Researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory participate in an ice friction workshop to develop approaches that decrease ice friction and increase speed for the USA Luge team held in Park City, Utah. Other attendees include current and retired athletes, members of the board of directors, experts from industry and sled technicians and engineers. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo)

    ERDC researchers support the USA Luge team in quest for Olympic Gold

    Sliding on ice at speeds exceeding 90 mph is terrifying for most people, but the USA Luge team is seeking assistance from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) along with academic and industry leaders to go even faster.
  • Michael Deegan Ph.D., social scientist with the USACE Institute for Water Resources in Alexandria, Virginia, was selected as a participant for the ERDC University Class of 2023. His six-month project with ERDC's Environmental Laboratory will focus on researching watershed resilience in low-capacity communities.

    IWR’s Michael Deegan selected for ERDC University

    Researchers from 10 U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Districts have been selected for the 2023 session of the Engineer Research and Development Center University (ERDC-U). Michael Deegan Ph.D., social scientist with the USACE Institute for Water Resources in Alexandria, Virginia, has been chosen to participate in the detail program.
  • ERDC’s research is accelerating ground vehicle research and development, increasing combat effectiveness, and ultimately saving lives.

    Ground Vehicle Interface opens high-performance computing doors for a new set of users

    An interface developed at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) is enabling members of the ground vehicle community to utilize high-performance computing (HPC) tools that were previously only available to scientists and engineers who had extensive knowledge of the underlying high-fidelity physics modeling and simulation codes.

  • July

    U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Deputy Director Pat Sullivan, left, and Director Dr. David Pittman, right, pose with the 2023 inductees to the Waterways Experiment Station Gallery of Distinguished Civilian Employees at a ceremony on July 27, 2023. Dr. Bill Grogan, Ms. Patti Duett and Dr. Alfred Cofrancesco were inducted into the gallery, joining the ranks of those recognized with the highest honor a former ERDC-WES site employee could accomplish.

    Three inducted into Waterways Experiment Station Gallery of Distinguished Civilian Employees

    A new group of U.S. Army Engineer and Research Development Center (ERDC) retirees were celebrated for their contributions and enshrined into the agency’s most esteemed collective in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Dr. Alfred Cofrancesco, Patti Duett, and Dr. William Grogan were inducted into the Waterways Experiment Station (WES) Gallery of Distinguished Civilian Employees during the agency's Induction Ceremony Thursday, July 27, at the ERDC Headquarters Auditorium. The achievement is the highest honor a former ERDC-WES site employee could accomplish, and the newest inductees bring the total number of gallery members to 116.

  • June

    Luke Navarro, natural resource specialist with the Nashville District, has been selected as a participant for ERDC University. During his six-month research project at the ERDC’s Environmental Laboratory, he will work with scientific tools to automate analysis of geospatial data. During his orientation tour of four ERDC laboratories, Navarro, far right, visited the Aquatic and Wetlands Ecosystem R&D Center, where he will be based for his ERDC University project.

    Nashville District’s Luke Navarro selected for ERDC University

    Researchers from 10 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Districts have been selected for the 2023 session of the Engineer Research and Development Center University (ERDC-U). Luke Navarro, a realty specialist with the Nashville District, has been chosen as a participant for this detail program, now in its eighth year.
  • The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center and the Dominican Republic Ministry of Energy & Mining teams tour the Las Mercedes site.

    ERDC assists the Dominican Republic in the exploration of rare Earth elements

    Researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory are currently assisting the Dominican Republic and its regional government agencies in the hunt for rare earth elements (REE).
  • Zahraa Al Khafaji, project engineer with the Chicago District, was selected as a participant for the ERDC University Class of 2023. Her six-month project at ERDC’s Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory in Vicksburg, Miss., focuses on processes to become a concrete specialist for this USACE critical area, which provides the primary construction material for civil works and military structures.

    Chicago District’s Zahraa Al Khafaji selected for ERDC University

    Researchers from 10 U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Districts have been selected for the 2023 session of the Engineer Research and Development Center University (ERDC-U). Project Engineer Zahraa Al Khafaji of the Chicago District has been chosen as a participant for this detail program, now in its eighth year.
  • Researchers inspect their equipment during a coastal storm event on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, October 10, 2021. The experiment is part of the U.S. Coastal Research Program’s During Nearshore Event Experiment, or DUNEX, a multi-agency, collaborative initiative to study coastal processes during coastal storms.

    Researchers analyze, share DUNEX data for coastal resiliency

    As the 2023 hurricane season begins, participants in the U.S. Coastal Research Program (USCRP)-supported During Nearshore Event Experiment (DUNEX) are hard at work to analyze their collected data and share their results with other coastal researchers and the broader coastal community.

  • May

    H2@Rescue

    ERDC-CERL helps develop novel disaster relief vehicle

    Researchers with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) recently collaborated with government and industry partners to develop a new way to offer relief in a time of emergency and natural disasters.

  • April

    During his orientation tour of four U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center laboratories, Portland District’s Dr. Kyle Tidwell, left, visited the Environmental Laboratory’s (EL) Cognitive Ecology Ecohydraulics Research Facility for a briefing by the lab’s Avery Schemmel, research engineer, right, on Computational Modeling for Fish Tracking. Tidwell’s ERDC-U project of researching how civil work programs can support endangered salmon recovery in the Columbia River is based at this EL facility.

    Portland District’s Kyle Tidwell selected for ERDC University

    Researchers from 10 U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Districts have been selected for the 2023 session of the Engineer Research and Development Center University (ERDC-U). Dr. Kyle Tidwell, fish biologist with the Portland District has been chosen as a participant for detail program, now in its eighth year.
  • 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.)

    ERDC University welcomes 12 district team members to the Class of 2023

    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.

  • March

    Researchers with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center use new technology to directly measure soil carbon on 5,000 acres of Fort Riley training lands.

    ERDC-CERL researchers find innovative ways to measure soil carbon

    Researchers at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) are collaborating with Carbon Asset Solutions (CAS), a company that holds the license to a newly developed U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) soil scanning technology, to directly measure soil carbon on 5,000 acres of Fort Riley training lands.

  • ERDC-CERL to test new hydrogen electrolyzer technology to support energy resilience

    In an effort to make U.S. Army installations less vulnerable to risks and hazards, the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) will test new hydrogen technology in support of energy resilience.
  • A team of researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory and Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education developed a suite of tools to assist project teams with a low-cost, energy-saving controls retrofit for multizone heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. The tools are designed to guide a project team through the entire technology adoption process. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo)

    ERDC-CERL team transitions ERDC HVAC controls retrofit technology

    A team of researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) and Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) are working to address challenges of energy efficiency for specific older heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems within the Department of Defense.
  • Dr. Andy Nelson, director of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, talks with a University of Illinois student at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers R&D Day, February 22, 2023.

    USACE R&D Day at the University of Illinois a huge success

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) recently held a Research and Development (R&D) Day at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
  • Researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory partnered with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District and the City of Tybee Island to measure vessel wakes near the island’s north shore in hopes of understanding which ships and operating conditions are associated with large wakes. Commercial vessels transiting the Savannah entrance channel intermittently generate large wake events on the North Beach, creating a potential hazard for beachgoers.

    ERDC-CHL researchers assess hazardous vessel wakes near Tybee Island

    Researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) partnered with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District and the city of Tybee Island to measure vessel wakes near the island’s north shore in hopes of better understanding which ships and operating conditions are associated with generating large wakes.

  • February

    Dr. Nathan Harms, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Environmental Laboratory research biologist, standing amongst a thick sagittaria infestation in northern Victoria during his visit to Australia to hand-deliver insects collected in the U.S. for the sagittaria project.

    ERDC researcher aids work in Australia, South Africa to combat invasive weed

    For more than a decade, Dr. Nathan Harms, a research biologist with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory (EL), has been assisting the Australian government, and more recently South Africa, with the biological control of the invasive delta arrowhead.
  • Dr. Ing Peter Birkner from the House of Energy e.V. and Dr. Alexander Zhivov, a senior research engineer with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory.

    ERDC-CERL organizes international conference held to fight climate change and support energy security

    An International Forum aimed “towards a secure energy supply in a net zero emission society” was held in Frankfurt, Germany, January 23-25, 2023. The event was organized by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL), along with the House of Energy e.V. to fight climate change and support energy security on the local level.
  • Dr. Benjamin Trump named U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Researcher of the Year.

    ERDC scientist named USACE Researcher of the Year

    Dr. Benjamin Trump, a research social scientist with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory (EL), was recently named U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Researcher of the Year.