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  • March

    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.