Underwater Environments

SERDP and ESTCP are sponsoring research and development efforts in wide area assessment, detailed surveys, recovery and disposal, and underwater phenomenology to support the underwater military munitions response program.

Active Projects List
Project Title Start Date

Modeling Buried Target Acoustic Response by Component

Project Information
Project ID: MR-2324
Principal Investigator: Mr. Lane Owsley, University of Washington
SERDP Jan 2013

Surf-Zone Underwater Robotic Demonstration Platform

Project Information
Project ID: MR-2325
Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert Hughes, Applied Research Associates, Inc.
SERDP Jan 2013

Continuous Monitoring of Mobility, Burial and Re-Exposure of Underwater Munitions in Energetic Near-Shore Environments

Project Information
Project ID: MR-2319
Principal Investigator: Dr. Peter Traykovski, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
SERDP Jan 2013

Advanced SAS Imaging Methods for Resonating Underwater Acoustic Targets

Project Information
Project ID: MR-2322
Principal Investigator: Mr. Ira Ekhaus, BAE Systems
SERDP Jan 2013

Underwater Advanced Time-Domain Electromagnetic System

Project Information
Project ID: MR-201313
Principal Investigator: Mr. Tamir Klaff, CH2M HILL
ESTCP Jan 2013

Long Time Series Measurements of Munitions Mobility in the Wave-Current Boundary Layer

Project Information
Project ID: MR-2320
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joseph Calantoni, Naval Research Laboratory
SERDP Jan 2013

Development and Testing of an Engineering Prototype for a Marine Version of the Berkeley Unexploded Ordnance Discriminator (BUD): Phase II

Project Information
Project ID: MR-2321
Principal Investigator: Dr. Frank Morrison, Marine Advanced Research, Inc.
SERDP Jan 2013

Symposium & Workshop

DoD’s Military Munitions Response Program
 

Workshop Report:
Technology Needs for the Characterization, Management, and Remediation of Military Munitions in Underwater Environments (2007)