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  • July

    Dr. Kathleen Perales and Scott Jackson, ERDC Environmental Laboratory, received the 2012 Legends Award by the American Recreation Coalition. Pictured from left to right are Mary Coulombe, chief of Natural Resources Management, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Jackson, Perales and Derrick Crandall, president of the American Recreation Coalition.

    ERDC Researchers Receive Legends Award

    Dr. Kathleen Perales and Scott Jackson, ERDC Environmental Laboratory, received the 2012 Legends Award by the American Recreation Coalition.
  • The Surf Rescue squad board the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (LARC) after civil engineering technician Mark Preisser saves three swimmers from rip current in the Atlantic Ocean near Duck, N.C. Photo provided by CHL.

    Hero on a LARC: Engineering Tech Sheds Shoes, Saves Lives

    After a day of gathering coastal survey information, it was time to wash the Army Corps of Engineers Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (LARC) vessel and head back to the office, then home for the evening.
  • ERDC's Environmental Laboratory partnered with ETS Inc. to commercialize biological polymers to stabilize and strengthen soil.

    ERDC and Partner Collaborate with EPA on Biopolymer

    ERDC Environmental Laboratory’s (EL) Dr. Steve Larson and Gary Nijak, ETS Inc., met with Colleen McKaughn, associate director, Air Division, Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Region 9 recently to provide scientific knowledge and technical guidance concerning the use of Rhizobium tropici biopolymer as a soil amendment for reducing fugitive dust and air particulates.

  • ERDC Plays Role in TRB Marine Transportation System Conference

    ERDC was well represented at the recent biennial Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Marine Transportation System (MTS) Conference “Diagnosing the Marine Transportation System: Measuring Performance and Targeting Improvement.”
  • Dr. Linkov and Dr. Bridges

    ERDC’s Research Accomplishments Cited in Risk Analysis, an International Journal

    ERDC has contributed significantly to the field of risk analysis and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was one of the first agencies to embrace these tools.

  • ERDC Co-Planner of 5th Spatial Socio-Cultural Knowledge Workshop

    ERDC and the United Kingdom’s Defence Geographic Centre co-planned the recent 5th Spatial Socio-Cultural Knowledge Workshop at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, located in Shrivenham.
  • National Science Foundation-sponsored New York University researchers penetrate ERDC’s Ice Engineering flume with green laser light as they attempt to develop a better understanding of the interaction between turbulence and the laminar ice boundary layer at the Hanover laboratory.

    New York University Seeks out Scallops at CRREL

    ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory’s (CRREL) flume in the Ice Engineering Facility was center stage for two weeks in May, as the National Science Foundation sponsored New York University’s (NYU) research into the phenomena of ice scallops.
  • New Hampshire Army National Guard engineers erect a 34-meter meteorological tower on the Guard’s Regional Training Institute at Center Strafford, N.H. Nick Laskovski (red helmet), Wind Energy Project Analyst, EAPC Wind Energy, LLC., Norwich, Vt., and ERDC’s Dr. Charles Ryerson, principal investigator, Terrestrial and Cryospheric Sciences, (USACE helmet) provided guidance and technical expertise.

    ERDC and NH ARNG Erect Tower to Study Net Zero Possibilities

    ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) and the New Hampshire Army National Guard (NH ARNG) are conducting a meteorological study for the possible development of a net-zero (energy) training facility in Center Strafford, N.H.

  • ERDC’s Contributions Recognized by SAME Sustainability Citation

    ERDC recently received the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) 2011 Education & Outreach Sustainability Award Honorable Mention citation for education and outreach in federally mandated fossil fuel reductions and renewable energy integration through its team efforts with Bioengineering Group, University of Virginia and Arizona State University.

  • June

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    DOD HPCMP Receives IDC Innovation Award

    Department of Defense (DOD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) Director John West with ERDC’s Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) has led a program that recently won the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) 2012 Innovation Excellence Award.
  • Dr. Linkov

    ERDC Supports NATO Advanced Research Workshop

    ERDC Environmental Laboratory’s (EL) Dr. Igor Linkov recently organized and directed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) Advanced Research Workshop on Sustainable Cities and Military Installations in Iceland.
  • The new Mark Center in Alexandria, Va., had all component data and documentation turned over to the customer in electronic format that uses the COBie data standard.

    Corps of Engineers Pilots COBie

    The Construction-Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) project, published as a part of the U.S. national Building Information Model (BIM) standard earlier this year, is being implemented on major Corps of Engineers projects.

  • ERDC Helps Student Earn Best Design Cognition Paper

    ERDC Environmental Laboratory (EL) Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation (SMART) Student Matthew Wood recently earned Best Design Cognition Paper with colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University at the Design Computing and Cognition 12 Conference at the Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
  • Dr. Bill East

    ERDC’s East Keynote Speaker at ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering

    ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory’s Dr. Bill East gave the opening keynote address recently at the 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering.
  • Dr. Peggy Wright heads up the Human Capital Office.

    Wright Selected for Boss Lift Program

    ERDC Human Capital Office Assistant Director Dr. Peggy Wright has been selected to participate in the 2012 Employer in Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) Boss Lift.
  • An image from an advanced computer simulation of flow efficiency in a turbine tank engine; performed on the High Performance Computing Modernization Program’s supercomputers. Large-scale computer simulations like this one performed by Department of Defense (DOD) scientists and engineers help the DOD rapidly transition new technologies from idea to deployable product.

    DOD’s Supercomputing Program Relocates to Miss.

    ERDC has been named the lead organization for the Department of Defense (DOD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), following Congressional approval in December 2011.
  • Dr. Todd Bridges (left) and Dr. Tom Fredette

    ERDC Represented at the Scientific Group of the London Convention in Korea

    Environmental Laboratory (EL) researchers recently represented ERDC as delegates of the 35th meeting of the Scientific Group of the London Convention in Jeju, Republic of Korea.
  • ERDC’s Coastal Inlets Research Program, or CIRP, advances the state of knowledge and develops engineering technology for predicting the waves, current, sediment transport, and morphology change at and around inlets. Products of the CIRP improve management and design of coastal inlets through increased reliability of actions and reduction in operation and maintenance costs. The CIRP takes a variety of approaches, including developing concepts and theory for all relevant time scales, numerical simulation, field data collection, and laboratory experimentation.

    CHL Researchers Host CIRP Webinars

    Researchers with ERDC’s Coast and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) Coastal Inlets Research Program (CIRP) recently gave a series of two-hour webinars on "Coastal Modeling System Basics."

  • ERDC-U.K. Meetings on Advanced Materials

    A two-day meeting was recently held at ERDC-Vicksburg with internationally-recognized materials researchers from the United Kingdom (U.K.) and the U.S.
  • A Texas Rat Snake.

    CERL rat snake research featured in Journal of Zoology

    ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) Wildlife Biologist Dr. Jinelle Sperry, also an adjunct assistant professor with the College of ACES's Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois, is the lead author on an article published in the June issue of the Journal of Zoology.