It is with great pride and pleasure that SERDP and ESTCP announce the 2018 Projects of the Year. This year’s awards recognize scientific advances and technological solutions to some of DoD’s most significant environmental and installationenergy 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

These projects will be featured in the slideshow on the home page of the SERDP and ESTCP website through the middle of February. Please visit the to read more about each of these award-winning projects! 

SERDP Projects of the Year 

Environmental Restoration

Biologically Mediated Abiotic Degradation of Chlorinated Ethenes: A New Conceptual Framework

Dr. Michelle Scherer, University of Iowa

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Munitions Response

Quantification of Hydrodynamic Forcing and Burial, Exposure and Mobility of Munitions on the Beach Face

Dr. Jack Puleo, University of Delaware

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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

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Weapons Systems and Platforms

Accelerated Dynamic Corrosion Test Method Development

Mr. James Dante, Southwest Research Institute

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ESTCP Projects of the Year 

Environmental Restoration

Rapid Assessment of Remedial Effectiveness and Rebound in Fractured Bedrock

Dr. Charles Schaefer, CDM Smith

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Installation Energy and Water

Software-Defined Wireless Decentralized Building Management System and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Microgrid and Ancillary Services

Mr. Anthony Colonnese, Ameresco, Inc.

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Munitions Response

Demonstration of Crawler-Towed Sensor Technologies in Challenging Nearshore Sites

Dr. Gregory Schultz, White River Technologies

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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

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Weapons Systems and Platforms

Green Processing of Energetic Materials Using Resonant Acoustic Mixing Technology

Dr. Andrew Nelson, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division

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