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  • March

    CERL Team Claims Honor

    A team from the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory received the Program Development Achievement Award for developing a robust basic research program in biosensing and bioenergy.
  • Wilson, Cropek, and Grimme were honored for research that will be used to develop portable biosensors to protect soldiers and the environment.

    Team Collects CERL Award

    A team from the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory received the L.R. Shaffer Research and Development Achievement Award.
  • John Rushing

    ERDC-GSL’s Rushing to Serve on TRB Technical Committee

    ERDC Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory’s (GSL) John Rushing, a research civil engineer, was recently invited to serve a three-year term on the TRB Committee on Pavement Preservation.
  • Using the Gridded Surface Subsurface Hydrologic Analysis (GSSHA), the map above shows representation of an Illinois flood from a 100-year storm in progress. Color represents water depth, blue being the deepest.

    ERDC-CHL U.S. Army R&D Model Development Chapter for Military Aspects of Hydrogeology Book

    ERDC’s Coastal Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) staff contributed a chapter to the English Geological Society, Special Publication 2012, v.362; Military Aspects of Hydrogeology published in January.
  • Dr. Styles

    ERDC Hosts Kinetic Energy Turbine Workshop

    ERDC's Dr. Richard Styles, chief, Navigation Branch, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL), and Research Ecologist Dr. David Smith, Environmental Laboratory (EL), hosted a workshop on kinetic energy turbines (KET), Feb. 29–March 1, at CHL.
  • Dr. Smith

    TEC researcher co-authors Sensors and Transducers article

    ERDC Topographic Engineering Center’s (TEC) Dr. Clint Smith, Fluorescence Spectroscopy Laboratory, recently co-authored an article regarding biosensors and technical expertise in the analysis of biosensor architectural support in Sensors and Transducers, volume 137, issue 2.
  • Shown during the Hurricane Ike response, ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory Electrical Engineer Steve Sweeney, right, and the Tyler County, Texas, judge.

    ERDC Team Member to Help Train USACE Emergency Response Cadre

    ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) Electrical Engineer Steve Sweeney was recently selected to serve an expanded role as a member of the Local Government Liaison (LGL) cadre, one of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers emergency response teams in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
  • Image source: W.D. Goran presentation, “Climate Change Adaptation Approaches,” May 11, 2001.

    ERDC and NASA host Interagency Climate Change forum

    ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory’s (CERL) William Goran, director, Center for the Advancement of Sustainability Innovations, and Staff Engineer Sam Higuchi, Environmental Management Division, Office of Strategic Infrastructure, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), recently co-chaired a session of the Interagency Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation forum at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
  • Oil spill responders from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, recently trained at ERDC-CRREL on equipment for oil spill recovery and cleanup. The field practical portion included proficiency checks in spill site safety and techniques.

    CRREL hosts innovative "Advanced Ice Safety and Response" training

    ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) recently provided to Alaska Clean Seas (ACS), an oil spill removal organization (OSRO) based in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, a facility for training their oil spill responders.
  • Courville with students.

    CRREL Polar Researcher Provides a New Look at Old Ice

    ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory's (CRREL) Dr. Zoe Courville, a Polar researcher specializing in Greenland and Antarctic ice core drilling and analysis, recently explained lab work and shares field experiences with Dartmouth College students for their environmental studies class project on ice cores.
  • The team of Grussing, Karbarz , Marrano, and Bartels won CERL’s James D. Prendergast Technology Transfer Achievement Award.

    Researchers Receive Lab Award

    Lance Marrano and Michael Grussing, Champaign, Louis Bartels, Mahomet, and Joseph Karbarz, Bloomington, Ill., won the James D. Prendergast Technology Transfer Achievement Award from the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory.
  • Nicole Wayant, a Topographic Engineering Center geographer and mathematician, works with students in their classroom during an earlier ERDC Geographic Information Systems Day.

    ERDC researchers visit school for Engineering Month

    ERDC Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) Mathematician Katlyn Winter and Nicole Wayant, a graduate of the Department of Defense and ERDC Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) program and currently a TEC geographer and mathematician, recently provided a presentation on the inter disciplinary relationships between math and geography for second and sixth graders at Fort Belvoir Elementary School.
  • A carbon nanotube depiction.

    ERDC coordinates STTR proposal, industrial production of super fiber

    ERDC's Advanced Materials Initiative (AMI) program produced a scalable molecular design for a carbon nanotube-based fiber with a maximum ultimate tensile strength of 8.6 million pounds per square inch (psi) (60-GPa), or about 86 times that of high-strength steel.

  • February

    Scientist Dr. Jeremy Wilkinson, Scottish Association for Marine Science, left, and ERDC-CRREL's Bill Burch prepare the submersible trolley for testing within CRREL's Geophysical Research Facility. Attached to the trolley's structure are a suite of sensors that includes cameras, lasers and sonars, in an attempt to detect and map an oil spill from under the ice.

    CRREL assists with innovative "under ice" approach to detecting and mapping oil spills in the Arctic

    ERDC's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) hosted onsite testing assistance to researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), Jan. 16-20.
  • Dawn King received CERL’s Administrative Support Achievement Award. The team of MacAllister and Mifflin won CERL’s Martha Blake Technical Support Achievement Award for their work on blast noise research. Theresa Kissane was named CERL’s Research Assistant of the Year.

    Employees Receive CERL Awards

    Paul Loechl, Michael Kemme, and Harold Balbach, all of Champaign, received the Award for Excellence in Operational Support from the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory.
  • Lucy Priddy

    GSL researcher selected for leadership post at TRB

    ERDC Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL) Researcher Dr. Lucy Priddy was selected to serve as vice-chair, Transportation Research Board (TRB) Young Members Council (YMC) at the board's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Jan. 23–27.
  • Dr. Estes

    EL engineer appointed to board, Journal of Soils and Sediments

    ERDC Environmental Laboratory's (EL) Dr. Trudy Estes, a research civil engineer, was recently appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Soils and Sediments and will serve a three-year term as a subject editor for "Section 5: Sediment Management.
  • The above image was created using Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) for rapid classification of flooded areas.

    GSL hosts Homeland Security's Dams Sector R&D Workshop

    ERDC's Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL) hosted the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Dams Sector Research and Development (R&D) Workshop, Jan. 31–Feb. 1.
  • Dr. Bob Welch

    ITL's Welch elected to steering committee of NanoTechnology for Defense Conference

    ERDC Information Technology Laboratory's (ITL) Dr. Charles R. "Bob" Welch has been elected to the steering committee of the 10th Annual NanoTechnology for Defense Conference (NT4D) to be held in Summerlin, Nev., Aug. 6–10.

  • Douglass Post Named American Society of Naval Engineers Gold Medal Awardee for 2011

    Dr. Douglass Post, Chief Scientist for the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), has been awarded the 2011 Gold Medal by the American Society of Naval Engineers for his leadership and vision in establishing and realizing the Computational Research and Engineering Tools and Environments (CREATE) Program.