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  • August

    CRREL's George Blaisdell observes the final take-off of a C-17 Globemaster III after the successful first validation operations on the Phoenix compacted snow runway. Blaisdell’s work in the Antarctic and other extreme cold regions recently earned him admittance to The Explorers Club.

    CRREL engineer earns a spot in The Explorers Club for Antarctic accomplishments

    The Public Affairs Office at the U.S. Army Engineer and Research Development Center's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) recently spoke with George Blaisdell about The Explorers Club, his admittance into it and what the achievement means to him.

  • January

    Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory research physical scientist Hannah Wittmann in Antarctica. Wittmann and fellow scientist Dr. Zoe Courville recently returned from Antarctica, where they performed critical crevasse detection and mitigation on the most problematic portion of the roughly 1,000-mile long South Pole Traverse (SPoT) route, a three-mile wide shear zone where the McMurdo and Ross ice shelves meet.

    ERDC researcher experiences ‘awesome’ maiden trip to Antarctica

    Hannah Wittmann, a research physical scientist at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire, recently returned from her first trip to Antarctica, where she helped perform critical crevasse detection and mitigation work along the roughly 1,000-mile long South Pole Traverse (SPoT) route.