The 2018 featured projects recognize scientific advances and technological solutions to some of DoD’s most significant environmental and installation energy challenges—

  • assessing the effectiveness of remediation in fractured bedrock
  • improving energy efficiency and security on DoD installations
  • characterization of unexploded ordnance in nearshore underwater sites
  • management of endangered and at-risk species on military lands
  • green processing of energetic materials
  • understanding biologically mediated abiotic degradation of chlorinated ethenes in contaminated groundwater
  • understanding mobility of munitions near the beach face
  • modeling source-sink dynamics on DoD lands
  • assessing the viability of alternative corrosion protection technologies
SERDP Featured Projects
Environmental Restoration

Biologically Mediated Abiotic Degradation of Chlorinated Ethenes: A New Conceptual Framework
Dr. Michelle Scherer, University of Iowa | Project Overview

Munitions Response

Quantification of Hydrodynamic Forcing and Burial, Exposure and Mobility of Munitions on the Beach Face
Dr. Jack Puleo, University of Delaware | Project Overview

Resource Conservation and Resiliency

Endangered Butterflies as a Model System for Managing Source-Sink Dynamics on Department of Defense Lands
Dr. Elizabeth Crone, Tufts University | Project Overview

Weapons Systems and Platforms

Accelerated Dynamic Corrosion Test Method Development
Mr. James Dante, Southwest Research Institute | Project Overview

 
 
ESTCP Featured Projects
Environmental Restoration

Rapid Assessment of Remedial Effectiveness and Rebound in Fractured Bedrock
Dr. Charles Schaefer, CDM Smith | Project Overview

Installation Energy and Water

Software-Defined Wireless Decentralized Building Management System and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Microgrid and Ancillary Services
Mr. Anthony Colonnese, Ameresco, Inc. | Project Overview

Munitions Response

Demonstration of Crawler-Towed Sensor Technologies in Challenging Nearshore Sites
Dr. Gregory Schultz, White River Technologies | Project Overview

Resource Conservation and Resiliency

Conspecific Attraction as a Management Tool for Endangered and At-Risk Species on Military Lands
Dr. Jinelle Sperry, U.S. Army ERDC CERL | Project Overview

Weapons Systems and Platforms

Green Processing of Energetic Materials Using Resonant Acoustic Mixing Technology
Dr. Andrew Nelson, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division | Project Overview