Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite has made headlines for his plans to construct makeshift hospital rooms across the country as the Nation prepares for an onslaught of COVID-19 patients. On Monday, Semonite turned to the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg to ask for help accomplishing that mission.
Within an hour of the initial phone call, the ERDC Directorate of Public Works (DPW) staff had gathered and begun preparing to build two types of mock-up hospital rooms.
Students and volunteers from the The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, visit CRREL after finishing the course, “Hot Times in the Cold Regions Lab,” February 24, 2020. The lab visit allowed the students to witness some of the inner workings of the facility, hear about the types of research being performed and to see some of the...
The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Fish Ecology Team in Vicksburg, Mississippi, is using new technology, an autonomous underwater vehicle, in a study of the value of borrow pits in the active floodplain of the Lower Mississippi River. The team is matching the water quality data it collects with the EcoMapper with fish sampling to determine the relative value of borrow pits, which make up more than 40 percent of aquatic...
