The SERDP and ESTCP Project of the Year awards honor significant research and demonstration achievements in addressing the Department of Defense’s environmental and
installation energy challenges. This year’s winners made contributions to the following areas of research:
- treatment of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) from investigation-derived waste soils
- mobility of munitions in the underwater environment
- wildfire combustion processes
- shipboard oil/water emulsions
- detection and classification of underwater munitions
- standardized polymeric sampler procedures for quantifying freely dissolved organic contaminant concentrations
- data diodes to protect and monitor DoD facility equipment
- assessments of commercially available PFAS-free firefighting foams
- remote collection of biological data on military lands
Over the next few months, these projects will be featured on the SERDP and ESTCP blog. The winners are listed below, with links to their project overviews for more information regarding their work.
SERDP Projects of the Year
Environmental Restoration
Demonstration of Smoldering Combustion Treatment of PFAS-impacted Investigation-Derived Waste
Dr. David W. Major, Geosyntec Consultants
Munitions Response
Further Examining the Role of Cohesive Sediments in Munitions Mobility through Additional Infield Deployment of Smart Munitions and Application of a SERDP-developed Penetrometer Dr. Arthur Trembanis, University of Delaware
Resource Conservation and Resiliency
Multi-scale Analyses of Wildland Fire Combustion Processes in Open-canopied Forests using Coupled and Iteratively Informed Laboratory-, Field-, and Model-based Approaches
Dr. Nicholas Skowronski, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Weapons Systems and Platforms
Understanding Shipboard Oil/Water Emulsions Using Macro- and Micro-scale Flows
Dr. Cari Dutcher, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
ESTCP Projects of the Year
Environmental Restoration
Standardization of Polymeric Sampling for Measuring Freely Dissolved Organic Contaminant Concentrations in Sediment Porewater
Dr. Mandy Michalsen, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Installation Energy and Water
Low-cost, Plug-and-Play Data Diodes for Protection and Monitoring of DoD Facility Equipment
Mr. Colin Dunn, Fend Incorporated
Munitions Response
Demonstration of AUV-Based Structural Acoustic Look-Down and Side-Look Sonars for Underwater Buried UXO Detection and Classification
Dr. Joseph A. Bucaro, Representing the Naval Research Laboratory
Resource Conservation and Resiliency
Use of the “Data Mule” Unmanned Aircraft System to Remotely Download Ground Based Sensor Data on Military Lands
Mr. David Delaney, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
Weapons Systems and Platforms
Capabilities Assessment of Commercially Available PFAS-free Foams
Mr. Jerry Back, Jensen Hughes, Inc.
