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  • April

    Ross Alter, a research meteorologist at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, spoke virtually at an event April 8, 2021, in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Alter’s paternal grandfather, pictured in the PowerPoint image, was liberated at the age of 17 from Auschwitz- Birkenau, the largest concentration and extermination camp, where more than 1.1 million men, women and children were killed during the Holocaust. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Mary Margaret Edney)

    ERDC honors Holocaust Remembrance Day with virtual event

    An employee with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) and the grandson of a Holocaust survivor spoke at a virtual event April 8 to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day. Ross Alter, a research meteorologist in the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, spoke to more than 100 ERDC employees who signed on for his online talk, “The Holocaust: What was it, why did it happen, and… why should I care?”

  • November

    Mariely Mejas-Santiago of the Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory poses with her computer between sessions during RD20, a virtual collaborative event that was hosted Oct. 27-30 by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center. More than 755 people attended the four-day, online event.

    RD20 fosters collaboration

    With scientists, engineers and other professionals spread across seven laboratories and multiple fields sites across the country, the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) network is vast. But last week, ERDC hosted a virtual symposium – RD20 – with the goal of further connecting researchers scattered in various laboratories and locations throughout the country to enhance the organization’s ability to solve the nation’s toughest engineering challenges.

  • October

    Honored guests break ground at a ceremony for the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory’s new Climatic Chamber Building in Hanover, New Hampshire on Oct. 16, 2020. (Left to right) #### ####, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District Commander Col. John A. Atilano II, U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, CRREL Director Dr. Joseph Corriveau, New England District Project Manager Caitlin Slattery, Colby Company Engineering President Calen Colby and Colby Company Engineering Chief Executive Officer Sarah Emily Colby. The new Climatic Chamber Building will serve as a Material Evaluation Facility, providing a critical means to examine and test extreme cold-weather environments to develop and validate Army field materiel, which is required for Soldier and unit readiness.

    ERDC’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory breaks ground for climatic chamber building

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), along with U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) New England District broke ground together for CRREL’s new Climatic Chamber Building Oct. 16 at the Hanover, New Hampshire, campus. The Climatic Chamber Building will serve as a Material Evaluation Facility. The facility will provide a critical means to examine and test extreme cold-weather environments to develop and validate Army field materiel, which is required for Soldier and unit readiness.
  • The new Climatic Chamber Building will serve as a Material Evaluation Facility. Completion of this facility will provide a critical means to examine extreme cold weather environments under test conditions necessary to develop and validate Army field materiel which is required for soldier and unit readiness.

    ERDC’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory builds Climatic Chamber Facility

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) announced July 9, 2020, that the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) was awarded an Unspecified Minor Military Construction Authority contract to build a Climatic Chamber Facility on the Hanover, New Hampshire, campus.

  • June

    Capt. Carolyn N. Ortiz-Merced discusses the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chicago District’s COVID-19 projects while serving as the battle captain in the district’s Emergency Operations Center during the fight against COVID-19.

    ERDC Soldiers serve in the fight against COVID-19

    Although the vast majority of employees with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) are Department of Defense civilians, the select few U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the ERDC are making a significant impact during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since March 2020, Soldiers from across the ERDC have deployed around the country to aid in the fight against the disease, many mobilizing to “hotspots” to confront the unique challenges of fighting an unseen enemy.

  • May

    U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Research Associate Army 1st Lt. Eoghan Matthews walks across the Brooklyn Bridge on his way to work at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) New York District, March 26, 2020. Matthews was activated to assist the USACE New York District with completing site assessments, which are provided to local, state and federal partners, so that decisions can be made about where and when alternate care facilities are constructed as additional support to hospitals during the COVID-19 outbreak.

    Answering the Call

    In late March 2020, Army 1st Lt. Eoghan Matthews, a Soldier assigned to the U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Region Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), received a call. The instructions were cryptic but direct: “Pack a bag, and be ready to go somewhere in the Northeast.”
  • The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Team developed a three-step process for assessing regionally adjusted COVID-19 outcomes in Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa.

    ERDC researchers model COVID-19 for the Nation

    VICKSBURG, Miss. – When the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Dr. Brandon Lafferty sleeps these days, he dreams about predictive models. That’s because since mid-March, Lafferty, a researcher from the ERDC Environmental Laboratory, has been helping lead ERDC’s Modelling and Simulation Team develop the ERDC Susceptible Exposed Infected Recovered ⸺ or SEIR ⸺ model for COVID-19, and it’s an intense effort.

  • April

    Ryan James, a digging contractor, breaks through into the back of the gravel room for the first time from the new back crosscut in the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory's Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility in Fox, Alaska. The excavation was part of the phase four expansion of the permafrost tunnel, which added a new 300-foot tunnel and improved 200 feet of the pre-existing tunnel.

    Discovering the Mural in Permafrost

    In the forests of Fox, Alaska, carved into a frozen hillside is a unique manmade 350-meter long research tunnel. Situated on a 16-acre parcel near the confluence of Goldstream and Glenn Creeks, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory’s Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility was excavated deep into a large block of discontinuous permafrost that has been going through several recent periods of expansion. The expansion project began back in 2011, taking advantage of the digging seasons when the ground is at its coldest, with an overall project goal of expanding the tunnel facility to better support ongoing and growing research and engineering needs. The most recent expansion effort, this year, has added 300-feet of new tunnel, improved 200 feet of the existing tunnel and added links between the old and new tunnel sections at several locations, to include at an interface between subsurface bedrock and overlying gravels.

  • July

    Research mechanical engineer Dr. Zoe Courville displays a chunk of 60,000 year old ice to Advanced Studies Program students from St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, during a field trip to the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research Laboratory on July 12.

    Summer school goes Arctic at Army lab

    HANOVER, N.H. (July 12, 2017) – Twelve rising seniors and two college interns from the Advanced
  • Research Materials Engineer Dr. Emily Asenath-Smith shows renovated rooms within the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory’s Coldroom Complex that have been cleared and are being prepared for the arrival of cold units, which will serve as cold rooms.

    Dartmouth’s School of Ice

    HANOVER, N.H. (June 28, 2017) – Eighteen university and college professors from Dartmouth College’s

  • May

    HANOVER, N.H. – Dr. Joseph L. Corriveau (left) takes the reins as he accepts the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory seal from U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Director Dr. David W. Pittman (right) here May 15 ERDC Commander Col. Bryan S. Green (left rear) and out-going Director Dr. Robert E. Davis (right rear) were also key members of the transition ceremony.

    Cold Regions changes Direction

    HANOVER, New Hampshire – Dr. Joseph L. Corriveau (left) takes the reins as he accepts the Cold

  • April

    Blue Mountain Union School students recently visited the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory as part of an education outreach program effort. Research Civil Engineer Leonard Zabilansky works throughout the year with the students in the classroom; the student’s CRREL visit helps solidify the classroom instruction. In the photo, CRREL Researcher Dr. Jim Lever talks with the students about the robots he has designed, built and deployed in both the Arctic and Antarctic.

    Students visit laboratory as part of educational outreach program

    Students with Blue Mountain Union School, Wells River, Vermont, recently visited the U.S. Army

  • March

    Researchers successfully attempted a repaving design that incorporated buried extruded polystyrene (foam insulation boards) to prevent permafrost thaw at the most critical locations on the runway.

    Three ERDC labs come together for success in Thule, Greenland

    Three laboratories of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center -- Cold Regions

  • February

    Phoenix Runway engineers take time to cheer their engineering success! From left is U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Research Civil Engineer Terry Melendy, with National Science Foundation Operations Manager and former CRREL Engineer Maggie Knuth, and CRREL Research Civil Engineer George Blaisdell. The researchers and NSF operations manager recently completed a deep-snow, wheeled aircraft runway capable of landing heavy cargo planes safely. “With the successful completion of the Phoenix runway, we have done something that no one else has done, said Melendy.”

    Globemaster is first to land on new Antarctic deep-snow runway

    A McChord Air Force Base C-17 Globemaster III, a heavy military transport aircraft, recently made

  • January

    This photograph shows one of the AEP monitoring sites. Each site is equipped with three interconnected components – from left, a solar panel, web camera and data acquisition system (white box) that collects data from an anemometer and temperature/humidity sensor. The site provides daytime images and 24/7 data of meteorological events at the site during the cold weather months.

    Collaborative study aims to reduce power outages from icing

    Researchers with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and

  • November

    The International Sampling Corps: A group of approximately 35 individuals representing 17 countries – which included 24 students from 16 countries – and the director of the NATO Science and Technology Organization’s Collaborative Support Office.

    Engineer trains NATO on unique sampling method for munitions in soils

    “Science-based characterization of military training ranges and management for the environmental

  • August

    Dr. Jackie Richter-Menge in the field wearing her signature pink hat, a distinguishing feature when she is in the field.

    Army Corps polar researcher appointed member of USARC

    Dr. Jacqueline A. “Jackie” Richter-Menge a polar researcher with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and
  • Dr. Jackie Richter-Menge in the field wearing her signature pink hat, a distinguishing feature when she is in the field.

    Army Corps polar researcher appointed member of USARC

    Dr. Jacqueline A. “Jackie” Richter-Menge a polar researcher with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and

  • June

    Susan Taylor, Ph.D., research scientist at the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, is serving as one of the guest editors for the June 2016 issue of Elements, An International Magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology, featuring "Cosmic Dust."

    USACE scientist edits 'Elements' magazine

    Susan Taylor, Ph.D., research scientist at the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering

  • March

    Alaska Clean Seas’ Advanced Oil Spill Response students recently prepared a mechanical skimmer as part of their hands-on training with oil spill recovery equipment hosted at ERDC-CRREL’s Geophysical Research Facility.

    Oil spill responders train at CRREL to keep the arctic clean

    HANOVER, N.H. – The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory recently hosted Alaska Clean Seas’ Advanced Oil Spill Response Training; it was the fourth year they hosted the event. ACS representatives onsite included the course lead, while others provide training station instruction and certification.

  • July

    A New York University doctorate student monitors the laser in ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory’s flume recently, looking at the sea ice and ocean interface.

    Sea ice scallops may hold key to impact of climate change on melting glaciers

    HANOVER, N.H.—As a continuing research project, New York University scientists and students were recently at ERDC’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory conducting research in the laboratory’s flume for follow-on testing of sea ice scallops, a fundamental approach to better understand the dynamics of melting glaciers and climate change.