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  • April

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development and Select Engineering Services project team standing with the Mobile Insulation System for Energy Reduction (MISER) system at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. (Photo credit: David Shields, Select Engineering Service)

    ERDC Advances Transformational Arctic Sustainment Technology for Warfighters

    As the U.S. Army increases its operational focus in the Arctic, researchers at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) are delivering a proven solution for one of the region’s toughest challenges — sustaining Soldiers in extreme cold weather.

  • November

    Photo of a winter road in Fairbanks, Alaska. ERDC’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) is providing crucial guidance on building and maintaining the vital, yet unpredictable, winter roads in challenging northern environments. (Image by, J. Williams, CRREL)

    Army Research Aims to Standardize Arctic Winter Road Construction

    A recent report from the U.S Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) is providing crucial guidance on building and maintaining the vital, yet unpredictable, winter roads in challenging northern environments.

  • September

    ERDC-CRREL scientists (from left to right) Tricia Nelsen, Dr. Chris Polashenski and Roy Hessner prepare for drilling through the Arctic sea ice to install an Ice Mast Balance Buoy.

    ERDC-CRREL scientists install sensor-laden buoys in one of the planet’s “hardest places” to reach

    As part of NASA's ARCSIX research program, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory scientists Dr. Chris Polashenski, Tricia Nelsen and Roy Hessner engineered and deployed specially modified, sensor-laden buoys into the Arctic Ocean north of Canada and Greenland near the North Pole in an effort to help NASA better understand Arctic sea ice melting.

  • June

    ERDC broke ground on its new Permafrost Tunnel Operations Facility, a $11.4 million, 4,300 square-foot building that will contribute to significant advances in permafrost engineering, geotechnical research, and Earth and Mars polar science, as well as a greater understanding of life in extreme environments.

    ERDC breaks ground on new Permafrost Tunnel Operations Facility

    The U.S. Army Engineer and Research Development Center (ERDC) broke ground June 25 on its new Permafrost Tunnel Operations Facility, a 4,300 square-foot building that will contribute to significant advances in permafrost engineering, geotechnical research, and Earth and Mars polar science, as well as a greater understanding of life in extreme environments.

  • December

    Staff from a Department of Defense Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (MIIs) member company demonstrates technology during the Office of the Secretary of Defense Manufacturing Technology Program's (OSD ManTech) Point of Need Challenge held at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H., Dec. 4, 2023.

    ERDC hosts first-of-its-kind cold weather manufacturing challenge

    The Office of the Secretary of Defense Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Program’s hosted the first-of-its-kind Point of Need Manufacturing Challenge, December 4-8, at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire.

  • August

    The team carried microphones and recording equipment across fields covered in four feet of snow to conduct experiments and collect data for developing new methods for detecting, localizing and identifying aerial drones. The effort was completed in order to determine the direction of sound and the way it travels through the atmosphere as well as the way sound interacts with terrain in hopes of finding new methods for extracting information from sound signals.

    Detecting sound in the Arctic

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory’s (CRREL) signature physics branch is obsessed with sound -- or more specifically, the way it travels through the atmosphere and interacts with terrain – and methods for extracting information from sound signals.

  • 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

  • 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

  • April

    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

  • August

    Dr. Jackie Richter-Menge in the field wearing her signature pink hat, a distinguishing feature when she is in the field.

    Army Corps polar researcher appointed member of USARC

    Dr. Jacqueline A. “Jackie” Richter-Menge a polar researcher with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and

  • February

    An aerial view of Mount Desert Rock, Maine, shows the tiny, remote, treeless island where scientists recently conducted sea spray studies.

    Scientists measure sea spray at Mount Desert Rock, Maine

    Scientists from ERDC-CRREL and NorthWest Research Associates (NWRA) recently braved the wind and cold of the Gulf of Maine to collect data for an Office of Naval Research (ONR) project on sea spray. The project, “Sea Spray Icing in the Emerging Open Waters of the Arctic Ocean,” is an effort to better characterize sea spray formation in high winds and cold temperatures.

  • December

    Cover of the recently released, “Oil Spills in Arctic Waters: An Introduction and Inventory of Research Activities and USARC Recommendations.”

    Cold Regions Lab makes significant contributions to U.S. Arctic Research Commission report

    ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) engineers recently made significant contributions to the U.S. Arctic Research Commission report, “Oil Spills in Arctic Waters: An Introduction and Inventory of Research Activities and USARC Recommendations.”

  • September

    CRREL researcher talks Arctic at Dartmouth

    ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Arctic Researcher Jackie Richter-Menge recently presented an Arctic seminar to the Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth (ILEAD).

  • July

    CRREL Inputs to Report to Congress: Arctic Operations/Northwest Passage

    July 1, 2011Contact  Public Affairs Office601-634-3188Hanover, N.H. — The Office of the Secretary of