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  • May

    EL Director Dr. Beth Fleming, left, joined Conservation Management Plan author Dr. Jack Killgore, EL research fisheries biologist, for the signing ceremony marking the first step in a new way of complying with the Endangered Species Act.
    5 May 2014

    Environmental Lab’s Conservation Management Plan sets precedent

    VICKSBURG, Miss. - As a remarkable first for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the recent
  • April

    Research Hydraulic Engineer Don Wilson, ERDC Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, provides a presentation on the McNary physical model to the Navigation Research Area Review Group (RARG) members during the annual meeting.  The RARG annually reviews research requirements and prioritizes statements of need submitted by the Navigation Community of Practice across the Corps.
    25 Apr 2014

    Review Group prioritizes navigation research needs

    VICKSBURG, Miss. - The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Navigation
  • March

    Marcuson
    25 Mar 2014

    Marcuson named Chi Epsilon National Honor Member

    Dr. W. F. Marcuson, III, director emeritus of the Geotechnical Laboratory, was recently named as a
  • Results are logged during recent face brick tests at ERDC. The tests showed face bricks in controlled environmental conditions are capable of withstanding low-volume truck loads of approximately 54,000 pounds.
    20 Mar 2014

    Face bricks and military pavements – a new option?

    New U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) research has revealed a surprising
  • Dr. Martin Schultz, EL research environmental engineer, serves as project team leader in developing, organizing, and executing work under the Environmental DNA Calibration Study (ECALS) probabilistic modeling objective.  This research focuses on developing methods to make probabilistic statements about the potential sources of eDNA detected in monitoring samples and the presence of live fish in the Chicago Area Waterways System
    19 Mar 2014

    ECALS teams use eDNA research to curb carp invasions

    While bighead and silver carp seemed useful when first imported in the 1970s to control 
  • A Virtual Autonomous Navigation Environment (VANE) simulation is shown. VANE is high-fidelity, physics-based software that simulates terrain and environmental conditions and the ways they impact sensor performance.
    10 Mar 2014

    Sensor deployment analysis with the Virtual Autonomous Navigation Environment

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Virtual Autonomous Navigation
  • CRREL engineers, current and retired, work onsite with Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge officials to lend guidance on safely moving the excavator across the ice bridge. CRREL retired Engineer Ginny Frankenstein, right, and CRREL Engineer Leonard Zabilansky, left, provide years of expertise working and researching ice.
    6 Mar 2014

    CRREL supports Missisquoi NMR ice bridge

    In areas that experience very cold temperatures, like the northeast, it just makes good sense to
  • A conceptual diagram of the VHF data exchange system is depicted, showing how vessels and shore stations might communicate using terrestrial communications and how satellite communication would augment and extend the terrestrial component.
    6 Mar 2014

    ERDC researchers aid in VDES development

    Automatic Identification System (AIS) technology is a very useful and effective tool for
  • A look up at the Mount Washington Observatory.
    5 Mar 2014

    Scientists study rime ice

    U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering
  • A traverse mountaineer climbs into the second traverse that had had the snow bridge blown off to investigate.  This crevasse was not as large as the first, measuring approximately 80 feet deep, with an approximate 10-foot wide bridge.  However, this one had another very large crevasse running perpendicular to it.
    5 Mar 2014

    CRREL scientist on mission critical Antarctic traverse

    Not many Corps employees can say that they spoke with the Chief of Engineers in the middle of the
  • A Hanover, N.H., firefighter takes advantage of a unique opportunity to extinguish burning North Slope crude oil.  The burning is part of Alaska Clean Seas’ Advanced oil Response in Ice course, program to train oil spill responders.  The fire department’s presence was requested as a precaution, but resulted in training for them as well.  Burning oil is an environmentally accepted and extremely efficient method of mitigating oil spills in ice-infested water.
    4 Mar 2014

    Oil spill responders train at CRREL to keep the arctic clean

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering
  • 1 Mar 2014

    The Snowman Cometh

    Matthew Sturm has dedicated his career to sifting, scrutinizing, and saving the white stuff. The
  • February

    A helicopter sprays ERDC's herbicide mixture to combat floating mats of invasive vegetation. The herbicide application covered 250 acres of the popular duck hunting grounds located in Des Ourses Swamp and Sherburne Wildlife Management are. The treatment will improve waterfowl habitat, increase hunters access to the swamp and open boat lanes as plants die and floating mats fall apart.
    25 Feb 2014

    EL’s Mudge leads battle against invasive species affecting hunting

    While the rotary sounds of the helicopter spraying aquatic herbicides chased away ducks in a popular
  • EL’s Dr. Carl Cerco recently received funding for the development of the Integrated Compartment Model  (ICM) LITE tool, a lighter version of the complete Corps of Engineers Integrated Compartment Water Quality Model (CE-QUAL-ICM) that will provide simpler set-up and operations for water quality testing.
    6 Feb 2014

    ERDC to develop user-friendly water quality tool

    VICKSBURG, Miss. - With recent funding approval, it’s full speed ahead for EL’s Dr. Carl Cerco as he
  • This coronal mass ejection was detected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on June 7, 2011.
    6 Feb 2014

    Geomagnetic storms pose potential threat to Army energy systems

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Geomagnetic storms have the potential to disrupt and damage electrical
  • Cadet Daniel Brownfield works on a prototype Flutter Mallard in an experimental “B-Hut” setting at the ERDC Forward Operating Base Laboratory in Champaign, Ill.
    6 Feb 2014

    Novel invention harvests energy from mild breezes

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) recently invented a
  • This aerial shot of ITL shows some of the massive chiller equipment required to cool the supercomputers inside the facility.
    6 Feb 2014

    Net Zero Planner informs ERDC Laboratory energy strategy

    VICKSBURG, Miss. - The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is supporting Army
  • MICA:WET users can expedite field audits using a mobile tablet.
    6 Feb 2014

    Mobile application tracks water equipment

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A newly developed mobile “app” can speed installation water audits, provide
  • This elevated water tank near Fort Leonard Wood’s airfield is the structure being used to test the new monitoring process. Photo courtesy ERDC-CERL
    6 Feb 2014

    New method to offer fast, accurate assessment of cathodic protection systems

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is developing a new
  • This screen shot of Fort Hunter Ligget, Calif. is used as part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Net Zero Planner system to calculate estimated energy use for each building. The grant will integrate this tool, with the Corps’ Comprehensive Army Master Planning Solution Dashboard, to develop a new analytical system to more quickly, effectively and routinely evaluate ways to cut the Pentagon’s energy bill at each installation.
    6 Feb 2014

    Fort Worth District receives DoD grant to develop new energy-saving evaluation tool for military installations

    FORT WORTH, Texas – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, has received a $1.22
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