Facilities

ERDC Environmental Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS

Lewisville, TX

Baton Rouge, LA

Aquatic and Wetland Ecosystems Research and Development Center

  • 17,000 square feet.
  • Laboratory/greenhouse space/growth chambers.
  • Threatened/endangered species assessment.
  • Rearing biocontrol agents.
  • Responses to physical stress.
  • Controlling invasive species.
  • Species/habitat relationships.

Environmental Chemistry Laboratory

  • 22,000 square feet.
  • Specialized analytical chemistry capability.
  • Analytical chemistry support for research programs.
  • Premier environmental chemistry facility in Department of Defense.

Environmental Genomics and Ecological Genetics Laboratory

  • 5,000 square feet.
  • Population genetics.
  • Ecological genetics
  • Environmental DNA development and monitoring.
  • Computational and systems biology.
  • Environmental toxicogenomics.

Environmental Microbiology Laboratory

  • 3,000 square feet.
  • Biodegradation and bioremediation with an emphasis on explosives, microbial geomics, microbial identification and community analysis.
  • Rapid DNA-based detection.
  • Monitoring of phylogenic/functional biomarkers.

Fate and Effects Research and Development Center

  • 25,000 square feet.
  • Laboratories and greenhouses.
  • Rainfall simulators/Soil lysimeters.
  • Indoor Environmental Chambers.
  • Static and Continuous Flow Bioassays.
  • Satellite Research Centers in Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, and Louisiana.
  • Sediment Processing Laboratory.
  • Ocean Tanks.
  • Living Stream Simulators.

Geospatial Data Analysis Facility

  • 2,000 square feet.
  • GIS/Remote Sensing/GPS technology applications.
  • Landscape modeling.
  • Unique spatial applications.
  • Custom application development.
  • Dedicated computer/server room.
  • ASCGIS/ERDAS imaging/ENVI expertise.
  • Remote sensing expertise in all active and passive modalities.

Hazardous Waste Research Center

  • 10,000 square feet.
  • Supports military and civilian cleanup.
  • Only RCRA permitted in Department of Defense.
  • EPA recognized as premier facility.

Sediment Research Laboratory

  • 3,600 square feet central facility and 1,000 square feet annex.
  • Columns and tanks perform physico-chemical evaluations and biological (living organisms and/or bioassays).
  • Capping research to include placement methods and innovative amendments placement methods.
  • Fate and transport algorithms, test existing fate and transport and dredging and placement models.
  • Groundwater flow, gas ebullition, consolidation, bioturbation and long-term burial, resuspension capping and contaminated sediment management.

Soil and Sediment Geochemistry Laboratory

  • 2,000 square feet.
  • Solid-phase chemistry of soils and sediments.
  • Environmental fate and transport of contaminants.
  • Colloid chemistry of natural and engineered materials.
  • In-situ solid phase chemical speciation and distribution of carbon and heavy metals in complex environmental matrices.

Lewisville Aquatic Ecosystem Research Facility

  • 120 acres.
  • Supports studies on biology, ecology, and management of aquatic plants.
  • 53 earthen ponds, 21 lined ponds, 18 flowing water raceways, 3 large outdoor mesocosm facilities.
  • Research greenhouses and several laboratories.

Wetlands Enviornmental Technology Research Facility

  • Located on the Campus of Louisiana State University.
  • Conducts research and provides assistance regarding the application of geospatial technologies to support restoration ecology, coastal management, landscape fragmentation and ecosystem modeling, and wetland restoration planning and monitoring.