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USACE engineers demonstrate the effectiveness of foam backfill technology

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory completed a field demonstration of foam backfill technology for rapid crater repair November 17 at the annual Silver Flag exercise site on Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. ERDC evaluated ten Airmen from the U.S. Air Force Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force using the new foam dispensing equipment and improved repair procedures. Results from this demonstration and the feedback collected from the participants will help further improvement of the technology. MORE: Exercise Silver Flag site engages more than 4,500 people annually to learn how to build and maintain bare-base operations at a forward-deployed location. http://www.tyndall.af.mil/News/Features/Display/tabid/6651/Article/830069/silver-flag-prepares-airmen-for-deployment.aspx

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C-17 makes first landing on New Antarctic deep-snow runway

A C-17 cargo plane from Joint Base Lewis-McChord made the first landing on the newly-constructed Phoenix Airfield runway in Antarctica. The runway is a compacted deep-snow (15-meters) airfield located near McMurdo Station, Antarctica that will soon replace the Pegasus glacial ice runway, designed by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and constructed 25 years ago.

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GSL’s Victoria Moore receives 2017 BEYA STEM award

Victoria Moore, an Engineer Research and Development Center computer scientist, is the Chief of the Mobility Systems Branch of the Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory. Among other awards, Moore is the 2017 recipient of the Research Leadership Award presented by the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA), for her Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) achievements.

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Engineer trains NATO on unique sampling method for munitions in soils

ERDC-CRREL Senior Research Engineer Michael “Mike” Walsh provides instruction on how to sample and how to collect samples before the two-day field exercise at the Cranfield Ordnance Test and Evaluation Centre, Wiltshire, England.

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Research to Reality - Mariely Mejias, Research Civil Engineer

Mariely Mejias Santiago, research civil researcher with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, talks about how her research and the technology developed at ERDC help the warfighter and the nation.

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CRREL team reaches the beach

A U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory team recently ran a relay from the White Mountains to the coast of New Hampshire, covering a distance of approximately 200 miles. The team, participating in the Reebok Ragnar Reach The Beach Relay, battled sore legs and sleep deprivation running 203 miles, covering the distance in 27 hours, 42 minutes finishing 60th out of a total 475 teams participating. In photo, (L to R): CRREL team members that reached the beach recently as part of a relay event include Jared Oren, Zoe Courville, Loren Wehmeyer, Chris LeGrand (husband of CRREL researcher), Brendan West, Dan Breton, Arnold Song, Garrett Hoch, Julie Parno, Matt Parno and Sandra Jones (not pictured).

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