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  • February

    The above image was created using Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) for rapid classification of flooded areas.

    GSL hosts Homeland Security's Dams Sector R&D Workshop

    ERDC's Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL) hosted the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Dams Sector Research and Development (R&D) Workshop, Jan. 31–Feb. 1.
  • Dr. Bob Welch

    ITL's Welch elected to steering committee of NanoTechnology for Defense Conference

    ERDC Information Technology Laboratory's (ITL) Dr. Charles R. "Bob" Welch has been elected to the steering committee of the 10th Annual NanoTechnology for Defense Conference (NT4D) to be held in Summerlin, Nev., Aug. 6–10.

  • Douglass Post Named American Society of Naval Engineers Gold Medal Awardee for 2011

    Dr. Douglass Post, Chief Scientist for the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), has been awarded the 2011 Gold Medal by the American Society of Naval Engineers for his leadership and vision in establishing and realizing the Computational Research and Engineering Tools and Environments (CREATE) Program.

  • ERDC Researcher Honored

    The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has announced that Dr. Richard Stockstill, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Miss., was selected to receive the society's Hydraulic Structures Medal for 2012.
  • ERDC Scientist Dr. Deborah Shafer (left) with Dr. Norio Tanaka.

    ERDC and Japanese experts work jointly on introduced seagrass species

    ERDC Environmental Laboratory's (EL) Dr. Deborah Shafer was recently invited to visit Dr. Norio Tanaka, curator of the Tsukuba Botanical Garden at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tsukuba, Japan.

  • January

    ERDC-TEC's Mobile Electro Optics Laboratory in use at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station's Webster Field site.

    TEC's Remote Sensing Group's mobile laboratory for field work and sensor demos

    ERDC Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) scientists have recently taken delivery of a mobile van that will house and transport various remote sensing and processing systems in support of field experiment campaigns.
  • Repair facility.

    ERDC scientists support Navy relocation plans

    ERDC Environmental Laboratory's (EL) Dr. Deborah Shafer is leading a series of interdisciplinary teams studying dredging effects on coral reefs and providing assistance to the Naval Facilities Engineering Command-Pacific Division.
  • From left to right are ERDC-CRREL researchers Jay Clausen, Maggie Knuth, Dr. Susan Taylor and Carrie Vuyovich all are 2012 Dartmouth Women In Science Project mentors.

    Hanover researchers mentor Dartmouth students via WISP

    Five Dartmouth College students and four ERDC-CRREL researchers are set for intern- and mentor-ships during the college's 2012 spring semester.
  • Damarys Acevedo-Acevedo

    EL engineer receives ASCE Eastern Regional Younger Member Council Award

    ERDC Environmental Laboratory's (EL) Damarys Acevedo-Acevedo received the American Society of Civil Engineers' (ASCE) Eastern Regional Younger Member Council Award for Outstanding Young Civil Engineer in the Public Sector.

  • ERDC security specialist achieves professional certification

    ERDC Security Specialist Teresa Johnson, has completed the requirements for Security Fundamentals Professional Certification from the Defense Security Service.

  • Vicksburg Staffer Achieves Professional Certification

    Teresa Johnson, a security specialist with U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Miss., has completed the requirements for her Security Fundamentals Professional Certification from the Defense Security Service.

  • ERDC Researchers Garner 2011 Modeling and Simulation Honors

    A five-member research team has been selected for the 2011 Army Modeling and Simulation Award for the development of One-Step, Contact Wall Breaching Methods for Military Operations on Urban Terrain (MOUT).

  • ERDC's GSL makes JFOB Protection Handbook

    ERDC Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL) has distributed more than 2,000 copies of the newest edition of the Joint Forward Operations Base (JFOB) Protection Handbook (Graphic Training Aid 90-01-011) since October 2011. More than 50,000 copies of previous editions have been printed to support troops in Iraq and Afghanistan prior to the current version.

  • ERDC's GSL makes JFOB Protection Handbook available to Soldiers and deploying engineers

    ERDC Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL) has distributed more than 2,000 copies of the newest edition of the Joint Forward Operations Base (JFOB) Protection Handbook (Graphic Training Aid 90-01-011) since October 2011. More than 50,000 copies of previous editions have been printed to support troops in Iraq and Afghanistan prior to the current version.
  • In December 2010, an ER-2 aircraft lifts off with MABEL from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Palmdale Calif., headed for a forested region in the Sierras. NASA scientists have previously measured tree heights and ground topography here, which will be used to better understand what MABEL "sees" from the sky.

    TEC supports NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

    Researchers with ERDC's Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) were asked by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to design a Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) target suitable for use in the testing of the Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental LiDAR (MABEL) airborne test bed.
  • Dr. Jeff Steevens

    EL's Steevens member Woodrow Wilson Institute Emerging Nanotechnology

    ERDC Environmental Laboratory's (EL) Dr. Jeffery A. Steevens, a senior scientist in biotechnology, was invited to be a scientific member of the Governance Board for the Woodrow Wilson Institute Emerging Nanotechnology Project.

  • CHL researcher co-developer of sediment budget equations

    Jan. 6, 2012ContactPublic Affairs Office601-634-3188VICKSBURG, Miss. — ERDC Coastal and Hydraulics
  • A USACE Emergency Operations worker uses the Mobile Information Collection Application (MICA) to capture levee data.

    ITL's Mobile Information Collector Application receives award

    ERDC Information Technology Laboratory's (ITL) Mobile Information Collector Application (MICA) project was recently named an honorable mention in Government Computer News,an online publication for government information technology professionals.
  • Dr. Rosati

    CHL researcher co-developer of sediment budget equations

    ERDC Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) researcher Dr. Julie Rosati, a research hydraulic engineer, recently co-authored technical note "Sediment Budget Possibilities and Improbabilities." The article is scheduled to appear inCoastal Engineering, Volume 60, in February.