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    Dr. Mlakar

    GSL’s Mlakar Presents Hurricane Katrina to N.J. ASCE

    ERDC Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory’s (GSL) Dr. Paul Mlakar, a senior research scientist and distinguished member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), recently presented an invited seminar on Hurricane Katrina to ASCE’s New Jersey Section.
  • ERDC Researcher Dave Derrick conducts PROSPECT Course #285, "Streambank Erosion and Protection."

    CHL Conducts Streambank Erosion and Protection Course

    ERDC Coastal and Hydraulic Laboratory (CHL) Research Hydraulic Engineer and Project Manager David Derrick conducted Proponent Sponsored Engineer Corps Training (PROSPECT) Course #285, "Streambank Erosion and Protection," in Vicksburg, Mar. 19-23, for a group of “students” from across the Corps.

  • TEC meteorologist helps Boy Scouts earn Weather Merit Badge

    So far this year, winter weather-like conditions in the Alexandria area have been minimal compared to the back-to-back blizzards the area experienced last year. At that time, cars clogged the streets in foot-high snow.
  • ERDC-CRREL Director Dr. Robert Davis and ERDC Commander Col. Kevin Wilson. Davis received the Bronze Order of the de Fleury medal.

    ERDC leaders honored with de Fleury medals

    ERDC Director Dr. Jeff Holland was awarded the Silver Order of the de Fleury medal and ERDC Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) Director Dr. William Martin and ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Director Dr. Robert Davis were awarded the Bronze Order of the de Fleury during a recent ceremony presented by Commander Col. Kevin Wilson in Vicksburg, Miss.
  • Jeremy Beasley, ERDC Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, works with the Electronic Railroad Inspection Database System hardware.

    ERDC leads effort to digitalize Army Railroad Inspection Program

    ERDC’s Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL) researchers are leading the Army Railroad Inspection Program into the future through the development of the Electronic Railroad Inspection Database System (ERIDS).

  • CERL Team Claims Honor

    A team from the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory received the Program Development Achievement Award for developing a robust basic research program in biosensing and bioenergy.
  • Wilson, Cropek, and Grimme were honored for research that will be used to develop portable biosensors to protect soldiers and the environment.

    Team Collects CERL Award

    A team from the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory received the L.R. Shaffer Research and Development Achievement Award.
  • John Rushing

    ERDC-GSL’s Rushing to Serve on TRB Technical Committee

    ERDC Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory’s (GSL) John Rushing, a research civil engineer, was recently invited to serve a three-year term on the TRB Committee on Pavement Preservation.
  • Using the Gridded Surface Subsurface Hydrologic Analysis (GSSHA), the map above shows representation of an Illinois flood from a 100-year storm in progress. Color represents water depth, blue being the deepest.

    ERDC-CHL U.S. Army R&D Model Development Chapter for Military Aspects of Hydrogeology Book

    ERDC’s Coastal Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) staff contributed a chapter to the English Geological Society, Special Publication 2012, v.362; Military Aspects of Hydrogeology published in January.
  • Dr. Styles

    ERDC Hosts Kinetic Energy Turbine Workshop

    ERDC's Dr. Richard Styles, chief, Navigation Branch, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL), and Research Ecologist Dr. David Smith, Environmental Laboratory (EL), hosted a workshop on kinetic energy turbines (KET), Feb. 29–March 1, at CHL.
  • Dr. Smith

    TEC researcher co-authors Sensors and Transducers article

    ERDC Topographic Engineering Center’s (TEC) Dr. Clint Smith, Fluorescence Spectroscopy Laboratory, recently co-authored an article regarding biosensors and technical expertise in the analysis of biosensor architectural support in Sensors and Transducers, volume 137, issue 2.
  • Shown during the Hurricane Ike response, ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory Electrical Engineer Steve Sweeney, right, and the Tyler County, Texas, judge.

    ERDC Team Member to Help Train USACE Emergency Response Cadre

    ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) Electrical Engineer Steve Sweeney was recently selected to serve an expanded role as a member of the Local Government Liaison (LGL) cadre, one of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers emergency response teams in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
  • Image source: W.D. Goran presentation, “Climate Change Adaptation Approaches,” May 11, 2001.

    ERDC and NASA host Interagency Climate Change forum

    ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory’s (CERL) William Goran, director, Center for the Advancement of Sustainability Innovations, and Staff Engineer Sam Higuchi, Environmental Management Division, Office of Strategic Infrastructure, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), recently co-chaired a session of the Interagency Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation forum at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
  • Oil spill responders from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, recently trained at ERDC-CRREL on equipment for oil spill recovery and cleanup. The field practical portion included proficiency checks in spill site safety and techniques.

    CRREL hosts innovative "Advanced Ice Safety and Response" training

    ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) recently provided to Alaska Clean Seas (ACS), an oil spill removal organization (OSRO) based in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, a facility for training their oil spill responders.
  • Courville with students.

    CRREL Polar Researcher Provides a New Look at Old Ice

    ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory's (CRREL) Dr. Zoe Courville, a Polar researcher specializing in Greenland and Antarctic ice core drilling and analysis, recently explained lab work and shares field experiences with Dartmouth College students for their environmental studies class project on ice cores.
  • The team of Grussing, Karbarz , Marrano, and Bartels won CERL’s James D. Prendergast Technology Transfer Achievement Award.

    Researchers Receive Lab Award

    Lance Marrano and Michael Grussing, Champaign, Louis Bartels, Mahomet, and Joseph Karbarz, Bloomington, Ill., won the James D. Prendergast Technology Transfer Achievement Award from the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory.
  • Nicole Wayant, a Topographic Engineering Center geographer and mathematician, works with students in their classroom during an earlier ERDC Geographic Information Systems Day.

    ERDC researchers visit school for Engineering Month

    ERDC Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) Mathematician Katlyn Winter and Nicole Wayant, a graduate of the Department of Defense and ERDC Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) program and currently a TEC geographer and mathematician, recently provided a presentation on the inter disciplinary relationships between math and geography for second and sixth graders at Fort Belvoir Elementary School.
  • A carbon nanotube depiction.

    ERDC coordinates STTR proposal, industrial production of super fiber

    ERDC's Advanced Materials Initiative (AMI) program produced a scalable molecular design for a carbon nanotube-based fiber with a maximum ultimate tensile strength of 8.6 million pounds per square inch (psi) (60-GPa), or about 86 times that of high-strength steel.