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  • November

    Participants fill sandbags during a flood fighting training Nov. 2, 2022, in Marin City, Calif.

    USACE, partners kick off Marin City Flood Resilience Project with Nov. 7 community event

    Please join our Project Kickoff Celebration for the Marin City Flood Resilience Project on Thursday, Nov 7, 10-11 a.m. This event celebrates Marin City’s selection to be part of a Congressional Pilot Program to improve flood safety and address other water resource challenges in historically-underserved communities across the United States. Marin City was selected by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works to be one of 12 communities who will participate in this program where the federal government will cover 100 percent of the cost of a small water resources project.
  • Storm damaged after Hurricanes Marco and Laura in 2020. A multidisciplinary ERDC team is working to modernize widely used flood models such as StormSim and Hydrologic Engineering Center software by developing a vegetation index that more comprehensively quantifies vegetation stability on coastal levees. The index will incorporate an array of ecological measurements, such as root/shoot ratios, evapotranspiration rates, soil moisture, vegetation shear, root strength, and vegetation age, size and type. Photo courtesy of Dr. Navid Jafari and Dr. Jasmine Bekkaye, Natural Hazards Engineering Research Institute.

    ERDC looks to modernize flood models with levee vegetation index

    A multidisciplinary ERDC team is working to modernize widely used flood models such as StormSim and Hydrologic Engineering Center software by developing a vegetation index that more comprehensively quantifies vegetation stability on coastal levees. The index will incorporate an array of ecological measurements, such as root/shoot ratios, evapotranspiration rates, soil moisture, vegetation shear, root strength, and vegetation age, size and type.
  • Allison Stefanelli, Buffalo District Biologist

    Allison Stefanelli dives into environmental waters and returns to biology interests

    Allison Stefanelli had a passion for the outdoors and all things nature from an early age. When it came time to start her career after college, she decided to go in a direction that still involved the environment and nature but not to the extent that she’s used to experiencing. That changed after speaking to someone from the Corps of Engineers.
  • Taylor Rycroft, a research environmental engineer, was named the 2024 USACE Researcher of the Year for his work with the Wellbot and Cyanobacterial Suppression through Ultraviolet-C Neutralization (CyanoSTUN) technologies.

    ERDC’s Taylor Rycroft named USACE Researcher of the Year

    A researcher with the U. S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory (EL) is receiving recognition for his role in protecting the environment. Taylor Rycroft, a research environmental engineer, was named the 2024 USACE Researcher of the Year for his work with the Wellbot and Cyanobacterial Suppression Through Ultraviolet-C Neutralization (CyanoSTUN) technologies.
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    New Access Control Point to Increase Security at Upstate NY Military Facility

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, is constructing Gillespie Gate ─ a new Access Control Point (ACP) at Watervliet Arsenal in upstate New York that will provide enhanced security for military and Army Corps employees and the missions they oversee. A U.S. Army-owned and operated manufacturing facility, its artillery products have helped hundreds of thousands of servicemen and women fight and win our Nation's battles and come home safely.