An arduous, three-week mission recently took a team of scientists and technicians from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory to the outer reaches of earthbound travel, all in an effort to help NASA better understand Arctic sea ice melting.
As part of NASA's ARCSIX research program, Dr. Chris Polashenski, Tricia Nelsen and Roy Hessner engineered and deployed specially modified, sensor-laden buoys into the Arctic Ocean north of Canada and Greenland near the North Pole.
Since their successful deployment, the buoys have continued to drift with the ice while reporting data, which the public can access in real time at cryosphereinnovation.com/data. The...
With a goal of improving how historic structures are managed and advancing the role of technology for historic preservation, a collaborative team of experts completed a field experiment at the Au Sable Lighthouse in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The team, which included researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL), University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison)...
In Crane, Indiana, researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) are assisting in a critical battle against time and nature. Within the vast expanses of Crane Army Ammunition Activity (CAAA), lie thousands of Earth Covered Magazines (ECMs) — crucial semi-buried bunkers that safeguard the nation's munitions and explosives. These facilities, vital to the Department of Defense, face threats of mold and corrosion.
