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  • January

    CRREL’s Dr. Theodore Letcher demonstrates the Mud Threat Score software tool.

    New software helps military planners predict mud season

    A new software tool called the “Mud Threat Score” now provides military planners with real-time frozen ground and thaw predictions at 30-meter resolution, anytime, anywhere in the world. Developed by ERDC laboratories and their Hanover, New Hampshire-based industry partner Creare, the new tool combines existing weather forecasting data residing within the geospatial decision support tool GeoWATCH with newly developed frozen and thawing soil algorithm to highlight locations that are experiencing or will experience muddy conditions due to the spring thaw.

  • March

    Researchers with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center use new technology to directly measure soil carbon on 5,000 acres of Fort Riley training lands.

    ERDC-CERL researchers find innovative ways to measure soil carbon

    Researchers at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) are collaborating with Carbon Asset Solutions (CAS), a company that holds the license to a newly developed U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) soil scanning technology, to directly measure soil carbon on 5,000 acres of Fort Riley training lands.

  • November

    Dr. Jeffrey Olafsen will be working with Dr. Oliver Taylor of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory. Olafsen and Taylor have been collaboratively researching new breakthroughs in granular physics. (Photo courtesy of Baylor University)

    ERDC Soils Laboratory welcomes Baylor University physicist

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL) is hosting a physicist from Baylor University during the month of November.