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  • March

    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.

  • ERDC Researcher Honored

    The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has announced that Dr. Richard Stockstill, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Miss., was selected to receive the society's Hydraulic Structures Medal for 2012.
  • ERDC Scientist Dr. Deborah Shafer (left) with Dr. Norio Tanaka.

    ERDC and Japanese experts work jointly on introduced seagrass species

    ERDC Environmental Laboratory's (EL) Dr. Deborah Shafer was recently invited to visit Dr. Norio Tanaka, curator of the Tsukuba Botanical Garden at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tsukuba, Japan.

  • January

    ERDC-TEC's Mobile Electro Optics Laboratory in use at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station's Webster Field site.

    TEC's Remote Sensing Group's mobile laboratory for field work and sensor demos

    ERDC Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) scientists have recently taken delivery of a mobile van that will house and transport various remote sensing and processing systems in support of field experiment campaigns.
  • Repair facility.

    ERDC scientists support Navy relocation plans

    ERDC Environmental Laboratory's (EL) Dr. Deborah Shafer is leading a series of interdisciplinary teams studying dredging effects on coral reefs and providing assistance to the Naval Facilities Engineering Command-Pacific Division.
  • From left to right are ERDC-CRREL researchers Jay Clausen, Maggie Knuth, Dr. Susan Taylor and Carrie Vuyovich all are 2012 Dartmouth Women In Science Project mentors.

    Hanover researchers mentor Dartmouth students via WISP

    Five Dartmouth College students and four ERDC-CRREL researchers are set for intern- and mentor-ships during the college's 2012 spring semester.
  • Damarys Acevedo-Acevedo

    EL engineer receives ASCE Eastern Regional Younger Member Council Award

    ERDC Environmental Laboratory's (EL) Damarys Acevedo-Acevedo received the American Society of Civil Engineers' (ASCE) Eastern Regional Younger Member Council Award for Outstanding Young Civil Engineer in the Public Sector.

  • ERDC security specialist achieves professional certification

    ERDC Security Specialist Teresa Johnson, has completed the requirements for Security Fundamentals Professional Certification from the Defense Security Service.