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  • August

    Tanner Jernigan is a coastal engineer at ERDC’s Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory. On March 28, he helped rescue three children from rough waves and surf near a beach on Tybee Island, Georgia. The wakes were created by a large vessel in the Port of Savannah shipping channel located just north of the island.

    Coastal engineer rescues children caught in large vessel wakes

    In March, Tanner Jernigan was supporting an ongoing research project on Tybee Island, Georgia, when the unthinkable happened and Jernigan jumped in to rescue the lives of three children. Jernigan, a coastal research engineer with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), works at the ERDC Field Research Facility, part of the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory.

  • June

    Tracking Data Through The Storm With CLARIS

    ERDC Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) researchers Drs. Jesse McNinch and Kate Brodie are on the cutting edge of mobile mapping systems for coastal areas using remote sensing to measure depths and land elevation, as well as waves and currents.