May 25, 2012
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VICKSBURG, Miss. — The United Kingdom's Geological Society recently published the book Military Aspects of Hydrogeology, Geological Society Special Publication 362. Two chapters in this book were co-authored by ERDC team members from the Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL), Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) and Information Technology Laboratory (ITL).
The first chapter, "Effects of Near-Surface Hydrology on Soil-Strength and Mobility," was co-authored by Jody Priddy, Ernest Berney, and John Peters with GSL. The chapter provides the history of ERDC's role in establishing vehicle mobility models through testing and deployment of field tools, as well as a history of mobility for varying vehicles types developed for military conflicts since World War II. This chapter also describes ERDC's role in research and development of expedient construction of unsurfaced airfields from World War II to present and also describes ERDC's research and development in dust control.
The second chapter, "Using Computer Simulation to Explore the Importance of Hydrogeology in Remote Sensing for Explosive Threat Detection," was co-authored by GSL's Jerry Ballard, John Peters, Josh Fairley, Raju Kala, Stephanie Price, Rickey Goodson and Lillian Wakeley (retired); CHL's Stacy Howington; and ITL's Owen Eslinger and Amanda Hines.
This chapter summarizes the research findings from GSL's Countermine and GeoEnvironmental Tactical Simulation Research and Development programs relative to the modeling and performance of remote sensing technologies to observe disturbed soil response and identify buried threats.
Founded in 1807, the Geological Society of London is the United Kingdom's national society for geosciences, and the oldest geological society in the world.