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  • October

    The new Climatic Chamber Building will serve as a Material Evaluation Facility. Completion of this facility will provide a critical means to examine extreme cold weather environments under test conditions necessary to develop and validate Army field materiel which is required for soldier and unit readiness.

    ERDC’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory builds Climatic Chamber Facility

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) announced July 9, 2020, that the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) was awarded an Unspecified Minor Military Construction Authority contract to build a Climatic Chamber Facility on the Hanover, New Hampshire, campus.

  • June

    A Gamma Portable Radar Interferometer and a Robotic Laser Theodolite sit on top of a large pressure ridge near a U.S. Navy ice camp on the Beaufort Sea, March 4, 2020. The Gamma Portable Radar Interferometer continuously measures precise distances from itself to an array of reflectors deployed around the camp and runway. It is able to detect small movements of the reflectors in relation to each other, and can tell researchers how the ice is expanding and contracting. The radar interferometer in an alternate method to accomplish a similar goal, sending out radar pulses that reflect off of various ice surfaces and records the reflected signal.

    ERDC researchers study arctic sea ice

    The U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) collaborated with the U.S. Navy during the annual Sea Ice Dynamics Experiment (SIDEx) from February through March 2020 by predicting potential breaks in sea ice.
  • Led by Research Physical Scientist David “Keith” Wilson, Ph.D., third from left, his research team with CRREL’s Signature Physics Branch received a patent for their “System for Modeling Intelligent Sensor Selection and Placement” awarded July 2019. Team members included, from left, Rachel Romond, postdoctoral student; Jordan Bates, research computer scientist; Wilson; John Gagnon, retired civil engineering technician; Lauren Waldrop, computer scientist; and Matthew Kamrath, research physical scientist.

    ERDC inventors earn patent for sensor planning software

    Inventors at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) recently received a patent for sensor planning software tools designed to assist the U.S. Soldiers’ need to identify effective placement locations for sensors to accomplish their mission. Led by Research Physical Scientist Dr. David “Keith” Wilson, the research team, consisting of CRREL’s Signature Physics Branch, received the patent for their “System for Modeling Intelligent Sensor Selection and Placement” in July 2019.
  • First Lt. Eoghan M. Matthews receives the Army Achievement Medal for his contributions during a deployment to New York City to assist the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York District with construction of several alternate care facilities in the fight against COVID-19.

    ERDC Soldiers serve in the fight against COVID-19

    Although the vast majority of employees with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) are Department of Defense civilians, the select few U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the ERDC are making a significant impact during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since March 2020, Soldiers from across the ERDC have deployed around the country to aid in the fight against the disease, many mobilizing to “hotspots” to confront the unique challenges of fighting an unseen enemy.

  • May

    U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Research Associate Army 1st Lt. Eoghan Matthews walks across the Brooklyn Bridge on his way to work at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) New York District, March 26, 2020. Matthews was activated to assist the USACE New York District with completing site assessments, which are provided to local, state and federal partners, so that decisions can be made about where and when alternate care facilities are constructed as additional support to hospitals during the COVID-19 outbreak.

    Answering the Call

    In late March 2020, Army 1st Lt. Eoghan Matthews, a Soldier assigned to the U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Region Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), received a call. The instructions were cryptic but direct: “Pack a bag, and be ready to go somewhere in the Northeast.”
  • The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Team developed a three-step process for assessing regionally adjusted COVID-19 outcomes in Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa.

    ERDC researchers model COVID-19 for the Nation

    VICKSBURG, Miss. – When the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Dr. Brandon Lafferty sleeps these days, he dreams about predictive models. That’s because since mid-March, Lafferty, a researcher from the ERDC Environmental Laboratory, has been helping lead ERDC’s Modelling and Simulation Team develop the ERDC Susceptible Exposed Infected Recovered ⸺ or SEIR ⸺ model for COVID-19, and it’s an intense effort.

  • April

    CRREL technician Kate Liddle-Broberg and contractor Ken Robbins finish marking the mining face for excavation control of the Engineer Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory's Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility in Fox, Alaska, as part of the phase four expansion of the permafrost tunnel, which excavated a 300 foot tunnel and improved 200 feet of pre-existing tunnel.

    Discovering the Mural in Permafrost

    In the forests of Fox, Alaska, carved into a frozen hillside is a unique manmade 350-meter long research tunnel. Situated on a 16-acre parcel near the confluence of Goldstream and Glenn Creeks, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory’s Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility was excavated deep into a large block of discontinuous permafrost that has been going through several recent periods of expansion. The expansion project began back in 2011, taking advantage of the digging seasons when the ground is at its coldest, with an overall project goal of expanding the tunnel facility to better support ongoing and growing research and engineering needs. The most recent expansion effort, this year, has added 300-feet of new tunnel, improved 200 feet of the existing tunnel and added links between the old and new tunnel sections at several locations, to include at an interface between subsurface bedrock and overlying gravels.

  • March

    Students from the The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, tour CRREL’s main laboratory on the last day of the course, “Hot Times in the Cold Regions Lab,” February 24, 2020. The lab visit allowed the students to see the inner workings of the facility, the types of research and the different engineering capabilities that allow CRREL to stand at the forefront of cold regions research and engineering.

    CRREL Site Visit

    Students from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute program at Dartmouth College, located in Hanover, New Hampshire, visited the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, also located in Hanover, February 24, 2020. The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute believes that regardless of age, learning never stops. This winter, they offered the course “Hot Topics at the Cold Regions Lab,” giving 46 students — made up of mostly retired professionals from a variety of backgrounds — the opportunity to hear from CRREL scientists and engineers about the type of work they do for laboratory and the ERDC.

  • July

    Corps Water Quality Committee visits Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

    Corps Water Quality Committee visits Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

    HANOVER, N.H. (July 18, 2019) – “It’s the first time the Corps’ Water Quality Committee has met at

  • March

    IED detector

    Corps researcher invents non-metallic improvised explosive device detector

     VICKSBURG, Miss. -- A simple scientific question by a fellow laboratory researcher led Research Physicist Dr. Benjamin Barrowes to invent the High Frequency Electromagnetic Induction instrument, now proving successful in detection tests of low and non-metallic improvised explosive devices known as Warfighter-threatening IEDs.
  • Corps features world-leading researchers during Women’s History Month

    Corps features world-leading researchers during Women’s History Month

    HANOVER, N.H. (March 25, 2019) — Dr. Susan Taylor, a micrometeorite expert and civil engineer with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, and Jackie Richter-Menge, Arctic sea ice authority and recently retired ERDC-CRREL researcher, served as keynote speakers during the laboratory’s Women’s History Month activities.

  • February

    Dr. Martin O. Jeffries

    Corps expert explains why Arctic matters

    VICKSBURG, Miss. (Feb. 11, 2018) --When the “polar vortex” dipped down into the United States more

  • December

    Materials Science Community of Practice

    Academic and industry partners collaborate at annual Materials Science Community of Practice Meeting

     VICKSBURG, Miss. (Dec. 11, 2018) – More than 75 participants — including researchers from five U.S.

  • June

    Cold Regions Lab tests survivability of ice stress on Arctic energy and communications pod

    Survivability of ice stress on Arctic energy and communications pod tested

    Working alongside the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory and Woods Hole

  • May

    RD18 promoted collaboration and cross-pollination of ideas

    RD18 promoted collaboration and cross-pollination of ideas

    VICKSBURG, Miss. (May 15, 2018) -- RD18 ‟Where researchers come to meet” was a thriving marketplace
  • Corps extends Permafrost Tunnel and Mission

    Corps extends Permafrost Tunnel and Mission

    HANOVER, N.H. (May 4, 2018) -- In Fox, Alaska, lies hidden a unique scientific treasure, the
  • Army Corps chief knowledge officer receives Kent State University Award

    Army Corps chief knowledge officer receives Kent State University Award

    KENT, Ohio (April 19, 2018)--Dr. Richard Detsch, chief knowledge officer and senior program analyst

  • April

    Dr. John Weatherly

    Weatherly named chief of Terrestrial and Cryospheric Sciences Branch

    HANOVER, N.H. (April 3, 2018)—Dr. Joseph Corriveau, director of the Cold Regions Research and
  • Research to enhance mechanical recovery of oil in Arctic conditions

    Research to enhance mechanical recovery of oil in Arctic conditions

    HANOVER, N.H. (March 29, 2018) --Nathan Lamie recently led a demonstration of strategies to increase
  • Cold Regions Lab wins Hanover snow wars

    Cold Regions Lab wins Hanover snow wars

    HANOVER, N.H. (March 29, 2018)--Recently, the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s

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