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10/12/11 — ERDC-CRREL hosted the U.S. Arctic Research Commission at its Hanover site October 6. USARC also visited the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth College during its three-day fall meeting in New Hampshire. [Full Story] (Posted 11/4/11) POC: Jacqueline.A.Richter-Menge@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4266 10/12/11 — Two CRREL engineers were invited speakers at the 5th Annual New Hampshire Joint Engineering Societies Annual Conference on 6 Oct., in Manchester, NH. The Joint Societies include the New Hampshire Sections and Chapters of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA), and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). [Full Story] (Posted 11/4/11)
POC: Jon.E.Zufelt@usace.army.mil, 907 384 0511 6/29/11 — The Office of the Secretary of Defense recently released its "Report to Congress on Arctic Operations and the Northwest Passage." Members of the CRREL staff served as subject matter experts in the report's preparation. The document addresses national security objectives, required capabilities, basing infrastructure, command structure and the need for icebreaking capabilities. [Full Story] (Posted 7/25/11) POC: Jacqueline.A.Richter-Menge@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4266 6/15/11 — CRREL scientists hosted teams from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the U.S. Air Force Weather Agency for a two day summit focused upon the AFWA-NASA Snow Algorithm (ANSA) satellite-based blended snow-cover analysis initiative. [Full Story] (Posted 7/25/11) POC: John.B.Eylander@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4188 5/18/11 — Salisbury Plain Defence Training Estate during their recent visit to ERDC's London office. The team was briefed on the various soil characteristics of major training areas including: Salisbury Plain, fine soils; Heathland, poor sandy soils; Breckland, a variety of soil types; Uplands, mountainous; neutral grasslands; a facility on a bog or peat; and a site in Suffield, Canada. [Full Story] (Posted 7/25/11) POC: Antonio.J.Palazzo@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4374 4/27/11 — The AGU recently announced that Chris Polashenski, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College and CRREL-mentored student was selected to receive an Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation, "The Fresh Meltwater in the Sea Ice System" at the Union's 2010 Fall Meeting. [Full Story] (Posted 4/29/11) POC: Janet.P.Hardy@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4306 4/21/11 — The capstone class for the five-week, spring term offering of the The How, What and Why of CRREL, featured by the Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth—ILEAD (pronounced like Homer?s "Iliad") was a field trip to the CRREL campus. The class visited the Ice Engineering Facility, Technical Information Analysis Center and the "cold rooms" of the Main Laboratory. POC: PublicAffairs-Hanover@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4852 3/30/11 — Rutgers University's graduate school recently recognized Dr. Jerry Brown, former CRREL scientist for Lifetime Achievement. Brown (Rutgers, Soils and Crops, 1962) received the award during this year's annual Distinguished Alumni/ae Award event March 4. The award focused upon his lifetime of contributions to the study of the Arctic regions and their soils. [Full Story] (Posted 4/21/11) POC: Justin.B.Berman@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4794 3/30/11 — CRREL's history was the subject as the Dartmouth College ILEAD spring term kicked off 24 March with a variety of courses of interest to the local adult learning community. ILEAD?pronounced like Homer?s "Iliad" and an acronym of Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth? was founded in November 1990. [Full Story] (Posted 4/21/11) POC: Susan.F.Koh@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4500 3/23/11 — CRREL has successfully accomplished the technical oversight resulting in ERDC's first Army's Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II Enhancement. Creare, Incorporated, an engineering research and development firm, has received $500,000 for enhancement of an SBIR contract with CRREL. [Full Story] (Posted 4/21/11) POC: vEnessa.Y.Acham@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4656 3/23/11 — CRREL hosted the 2011 Weather Impacts Decision Aids (WIDA) Workshop 15–17 March. The off-campus workshop provided an occasion for operational users and technical developers to exchange information about requirements and advances in the area of weather support for the operation of electromagnetic systems. [Full Story] (Posted 4/21/11) POC: John.W.Weatherly@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4741 3/16/11 — Working within the STTR structure, Dartmouth College, Sound Innovations and CRREL, have been exploring methodologies of applying controls engineering methods to the creation of accurate reduced order models of acoustic and seismic signals. [Full Story] (Posted 4/21/11) POC: Stephen.A.Ketcham@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4601 3/16/11 — The city of Buffalo, NY has armed itself with CRREL literature to help mitigate its ice jam problems this winter. According to a WIVB-TV news report (link below), City of Buffalo Operations Engineer and Harbor Master, Don Poleto armed his crews with CRREL-created information concerning Cazenovia Creek to help accelerate the natural process and minimize negative consequences. [Full Story] (Posted 4/21/11) POC: Meredith.L.Carr@usace.army.mil, 603-643-4385. 3/9/11 — Research Civil Engineer Leonard Zabilansky, with CRREL's Ice Engineering Research Group, along with research partners from DF Dickins Associates and Boise State University hosted an Identifying Oil Under Ice Using Radar Visitors Day at CRREL on 3 Mar. [Full Story] (Posted 3/14/11) POC: Leonard.J.Zabilansky@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4319 3/9/11 — Stefan Weissenstein, a member of the Engineers and Scientists CP-18 Intern program, presented a draft review of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Halley VI, and Neumayer III stations via teleconference 10 February to assess living space functionality at Summit Station, Greenland. The presentation was the capstone event during his rotational assignment at CRREL. [Full Story] (Posted 3/14/11) POC: James.S.Buska@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4588 2/23/11 — CRREL's Leonard Zabilansky, a research civil engineer with CRREL's Ice Engineering Research Group, will co-host an oil spill detection visitor's day on 3 March with partners from D.F. Dickins Associates and Boise State University. [Full Story] (Posted 3/1/11) POC: Leonard.J.Zabilansky@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4319 2/23/11 — CRREL researcher Leonard Zabilansky, as the regional MATHCOUNTS coordinator, held the annual MATHCOUNTS Competition at the Dartmouth College Thayer School of Engineering on 10 Feb. [Full Story] (Posted 3/1/11) POC: Susan.F.Koh@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4500
POC: Susan.F.Koh@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4500 2/9/11 — CRREL Anchorage Office Researchers Beth Astley and Ann Staples, along with current University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP) intern Austin Stewart, attended the ANSEP annual awards banquet on 28 Jan. Stewart received an award for maintaining an above 3.0 grade point average. [Full Story] (Posted 2/11/11) POC: Susan.F.Koh@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4500 2/9/11 — Since the winter of 2004-05 CRREL's Snow Assessment Team has produced 85 snow assessments of the Tigris and Euphrates Watersheds, 80 of the major Afghanistan watersheds, 22 of the major snow impacted watersheds of Pakistan, and 13 special snow assessments for the 10th MTN Division. [Full Story] (Posted 2/11/11) POC: Steven.F.Daly@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4218 2/9/11 — CRREL's presentation during the 78th Military Operations Research Society Symposium was nominated as the best presentation in the Operational Environments category. The symposium was hosted by the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, VA. [Full Story] (Posted 2/11/11) POC: D.Keith.Wilson@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4764 1/26/11 — Ms. Janet Hardy, Chief of the Terrestrial and Cryospheric Science Branch traveled to Chile in January as a guest of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command's International Technology Center (ITC) and the Chilean Army to visit Chilean bases on the Antarctic Peninsula and to discuss possible topics of mutual interest for which to develop an Information Exchange Agreement. [Full Story] (Posted 2/11/11) POC: Janet.P.Hardy@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4306 1/19/11 — A Corps-wide, end-to-end, Web-based Federal Energy Management Program "tool box" for collecting data needed to benchmark FY2008 and FY2010 greenhouse gas emissions was recently developed by a CRREL-lead team representing a broad spectrum of USACE. [Full Story] (Posted 1/28/11) POC: Richard.M.Detsch@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4625 1/5/11 — CRREL researcher Dr. Keith Wilson and CERL researcher Dr. Michael White authored the article "Discrimination of Wind Noise and Sound Waves by Their Contrasting Spatial and Temporal Properties" which has been published in the journal Acta Austica united with Acustica. [Full Story] (Posted 1/7/11) POC: D.Keith.Wilson@usace.army.mil, 603-646-4764 |
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2/11/11, CLAREMONT, N.H. —
CRREL's Strategic Workforce Planner, Susan Koh (white sleeves) looks on as U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. (foreground), receives "one-on-one" insight during a demonstration from the "Rogue Robots" of 4-H