On National Public Radio's Science Friday program, Robert Kwartin, Vice President and Director of Renewable Energy Practices at ICF International, discusses how DoD is at the forefront of renewable energy development. In the interview Kwartin describes an ESTCP-funded study, conducted by ICF, which determined the potential for 7,000 megawatts of solar energy production on DoD installations in the Mojave Desert.

DoD's stewardship efforts to defend and sustain threatened, endangered, and at-risk species and their habitats, while at the same time providing high-quality natural environments for military training, is the focus of the Spring 2011 edition of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Endangered Species Bulletin. The bulletin highlights initiatives and organizations, including SERDP and ESTCP, that are assisting DoD in its conservation endeavor.

On National Public Radio's Science Friday program, Rear Admiral David Titley, Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy and Director of the U.S. Navy's Task Force on Climate Change, discusses how "melting glaciers, changing sea ice, and rising sea levels might affect Navy operations in the Arctic and around the world – and how the Navy is preparing." In the interview, Rear Admiral Titley cites ongoing SERDP studies to assess critical regional and local impacts of sea-level rise on some of DoD's key coastal installations.

Congratulations to SERDP researcher Dr. Tissa IIlangasekare, AMAX Distinguished Chair of Environmental Sciences and Engineering and Professor of Civil Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, who was awarded the 2012 European Geosciences Union's (EGU) Henry Darcy Medal. He was recognized by the EGU for "fundamental contributions to engineering hydrology and exceptional support to the hydrological community" and was presented with the award at the EGU General Assembly on April 26, 2012, in Vienna, Austria.

The fourth installment in a Remediation Technology Monograph Series, Delivery and Mixing in the Subsurface: Processes and Design Principles for In Situ Remediation, describes the principles of chemical delivery and mixing systems and their design and implementation for effective in situ remediation. Released earlier this month, this monograph was written by several leading experts from academia and industry and edited by Dr. Peter K. Kitanidis and Dr. Perry L. McCarty of Stanford University.

In a keynote speech at an energy innovation summit last week, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter referred to ESTCP's Installation Energy Test Bed initiative as an example of how the Department of Defense (DoD) is aligning itself with the research and development agenda of the Department of Energy (DOE).

The Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment, Dorothy Robyn, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Assistant Administrator, Paul Anastas, signed an agreement that formalizes the partnership between the Department of Defense (DoD) and EPA to develop and implement technologies that will help create sustainable American military bases all over the world.

ESTCP released a solicitation on February 2, 2012, requesting proposals for demonstration of installation energy technologies. FY 2013 funds will be awarded through a competitive process to Federal and private organizations. The due date for all pre-proposals is Thursday, March 29, 2012. More information about the solicitation is available on the SERDP and ESTCP web site at www.serdp-estcp.org/Funding-Opportunities/ESTCP-Solicitations/Installation-Energy-Solicitation.