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  • August

    Lt. Col. Rico Vargas, then a 23-year-old artillery officer, takes part in a patrol during one of his two deployments to Iraq. During Vargas’ first deployment to Iraq in 2006, he was injured when the Stryker he was riding in struck a buried improvised explosive device.

    Forged Under Fire: Near-death experience galvanizes leadership principles for ERDC’s Vargas

    During Lt. Col. Rico Vargas’ first deployment to Iraq in 2006, he was injured when the Stryker he was riding in struck a buried improvised explosive device.

  • July

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Director Dr. Joseph Corriveau is interviewed by ERDC’s Shelley Tingle during ERDC’s LinkedIn Live event in June.

    ERDC brings history, experience to the crucial fight against climate change

    In early June, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a report showing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere had reached levels not seen in more than 4 million years. The report has brought more weight to the emphasis President Biden’s administration has placed on a “climate crisis that threatens our people and communities, public health and economy, and, starkly, our ability to live on the planet Earth.”
  • An aerial photograph shows a portion of Swan Island in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Swan Island is an example of an island restored through beneficially used dredged sediment. In 2018, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as part of the Engineering With Nature® initiative, along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), dedicated resources to monitor the island to better understand the ecological and engineering performance of the project.

    Following Mother Nature's lead to solve nation's infrastructure challenges

    At a time when Congress is fleshing out the final details of a significant investment in the nation’s infrastructure, Dr. Todd Bridges, Senior Research Scientist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, offered testimony on how infrastructure projects built using natural elements may be the best solution to key infrastructure challenges moving forward.