Power of ERDC

About Power of ERDC

Satisfy your curiosity and learn how some of our country’s smartest engineers and scientists are solving many of the toughest challenges facing the nation and the Warfighter. The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is comprised of seven research laboratories across four states, and one of its greatest strengths is its ability to combine the expertise from multiple laboratories into powerful, cross-disciplinary projects. Each month, we dive into one of these complex problems across its broad civil works and military mission space and ask ERDC’s world-class researchers about how they are discovering, developing and delivering practical cutting-edge solutions that make the world safer and better.

Publisher

U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)

Category

government · science · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Jan 2021

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

23 of 83 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #81: Shielding from the Blast: Patented ERDC technology enables safe detonation of underwater unexploded ordnance

   ERDC environmental engineer Taylor Rycroft and technical engineer Griffin Donohue discuss their patented blast shield technology for safely detonating underwater unexploded ordnance.

2. 

   13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #80: Ship simulator takes on key role in civil works projects

   Host Dr. Keith Martin and Richard Hunt, program leads, discuss how the U.S. Army Watercraft and Ship Simulator revolutionizes civil works projects by reducing risks and costs through advanced modeling and pilot evaluations.

3. 

   6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #79: Dune in the Flume: ERDC team relocates natural structure to laboratory to study dynamics

   ERDC's Leigh Langley explains how her team moved a dune into the lab, offering crucial insights for improving national coastal management.

Inside a recent episode

#81: Shielding from the Blast: Patented ERDC technology enables safe detonation of underwater unexploded ordnance

Published 20 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And then there's these aftershocks. And this happens underwater if you just don't. interfere with the reaction at all and those aftershocks cause problems and they can do it uh they they can continue for a while and so this blast blanket reduces the initial impulse pressure and hopefully disrupts any aftershocks from happening whatsoever and so now you have like the energy dissipates a lot faster and um So like acoustic impacts to dolphins, whales in the area, you know, the United States has regulations on like what level acoustics you can exceed underwater. Hopefully we can now stay underneath that threshold. […]

Who has been a guest on Power of ERDC

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Taylor Rycroft
• Griffin Donohue
• Dr Keith Martin
• Richard Hunt
• Leigh Langley

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

220,998

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

25 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

20

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

51