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The ERDC Dredging Operations Technical Support Program (DOTS) provides environmental and engineering technical support to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Operations and Maintenance navigation and dredging missions through DOTS Requests and other activities. Technology transfer products and activities support diverse field needs that directly benefit navigation and dredging operations throughout the United States.

All DOTS responses are documented to summarize the technical activities performed, deliverables completed, and benefits of the response to the Dredging /Navigation program(s).

District Title DOTS
Detroit Guidance for Advanced Dredging Maintenance DOTS 23-R110
New York STFATE Simulation Analysis for American Sugar Refining Dredging Project DOTS 23-R109
Galveston Fuel Estimate for Dredging Operations DOTS 23-R105
New York STFATE Simulation Analysis for Bronx River Dredging Project DOTS 23-R104
New Orleans Beach-fx Model Support for New Orleans DOTS 23-R103
Nashville Evaluation of Concrete at Wheeler Lock, Rogersville, AL DOTS 23-R101
Detroit Saint Marys River Ice Islands Replacement Study DOTS 23-R96
Baltimore Beach-fx Model Support for Baltimore DOTS 23-R91
New Orleans Workshop Facilitation for New Orleans DOTS 23-R89
(Eng Res Dev Center) Planning and Execution of the National Dredging Meeting DOTS 23-R85
New Orleans Turbidity Mapping with EcoMapper in Bayou Rigaud DOTS 23-R83
Los Angeles Post-Beach Nourishment Habitat Assessment DOTS 23-R79
New York STFATE Simulation Analysis for Bronx River DOTS 23-R77
South Atlantic Beach-fx and G2CRM Model Training DOTS 23-R71
Rock Island Data Request for the Lock Operations Management Application DOTS 23-R70
Seattle Anacortes & Willapa Shipping Statistics Compilation DOTS 23-R69
Galveston Galveston Dredging Material Management DOTS 23-R68
New York STFATE Simulation Analysis for Manhattan Cruise Terminal DOTS 23-R64
New York STFATE Simulation Analysis for Great Kills Harbor DOTS 23-R37
Jacksonville Underkeel Clearance Research and Development DOTS 23-R34
Buffalo SETTLE and CDFATE Simulation Analaysis for a Weir Discharge DOTS 23-R30-2
Buffalo SETTLE and CDFATE Simulation Analysis for Buffalo Harbor DOTS 23-R30-1
Norfolk Beach-fx Modeling Tool Training DOTS 23-R28
Fort Worth Maritime Incident Analysis: Arkansas River Ship Tracking Data DOTS 23-R27
Detroit Holland Harbor Rip Current Video Investigation DOTS 23-R26
Mississippi Valley Columbia River Maritime Activity Monitoring DOTS 23-R25
Galveston Texas Coastline Shipping Traffic Study DOTS 23-R23
Portland Snake River Navigation Monitoring DOTS 23-R22
St. Louis PATHFINDER Vessel Tracking Operations DOTS 23-R13
Mobile Demopolis Lock & Dam Evaluation DOTS 23-R11
Norfolk Elizabeth River Sediment and Water Quality Survey DOTS 23-R10
Jacksonville Flamingo Bay Marina Basin Sediment Study DOTS 23-R09
Kansas City Missouri River Shipping Activity Analysis DOTS 23-R07
San Francisco Noyo Jetty Structural Integrity Review DOTS 23-R05
Alaska Rare Earth Element Interferences in Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Analyses DOTS 23-R03
Savannah Tybee Island Vessel Wake Management Workshops DOTS 23-R02
New York Lower Columbia River Incident Ship Tracking DOTS 23-R01
New England Salt Application at Stewart’s Creek to Abate Phragmites australis for New England District DOTS 22-R08
Detroit St. Clair River Ice and Sediment Impacts on Flood Risk DOTS 22-R25
New York STFATE Runs for Ward Point Bend and Seguine Point Bend Dredged Material Disposal at HARS for CENAN DOTS 22-R21
USACE-HQ Updating the Dredging Inspector’s Instruction Guide from 1963 DOTS 22-R04
Los Angeles Lake Elsinore, CA Dredging and Island Building Assessment DOTS 22-R07(2)
Los Angeles Lake Elsinore Dredged Island Evaluation DOTS 22-R07(1)
Rock Island STFATE Application for Starved Rock Mechanical Side-Casting Operation for CEMVR DOTS 22-R28
Chicago Wisconsin Harbor Dredge Placement DOTS 22-R23
St. Louis Lock and Dam 25 Tow Simulation Study DOTS 22-R15
Buffalo Chemical Analysis for Acid Producing Dredged Material DOTS 22-R13
Los Angeles Review of Technologies to Support Early Detection of the Invasive Algae Caulerpa prolifera DOTS 22-R11
Detroit Regulatory Review of Open Water Placement Site Designation Requirements for LRE DOTS 22-R20
Vicksburg Red River Lock 1 Shoaling Ben Emery DOTS 21-R01
Wilmington GenCade Training for SAW DOTS 21-R02
St. Paul MVP – Strategic Navigation Vision Ben Emery DOTS 21-R10
Galveston Placement of Navigation Dredged Material on Babe’s Beach Galveston, Texas DOTS 21-R13
Norfolk Balazik Review of Restrictive Dredging Window for NAO DOTS 21-R15
New York STFATE Model Runs for NWS Earle Phase II - Areas B1, B2 and C1 DOTS 21-R18
St. Paul Dredged Sediment Amendments to Improve Floodplain Cropland Productivity DOTS 21-R19
Jacksonville Training and Field Demonstration of Chirp Sub-Bottom Imagery for the USACE Jacksonville District DOTS 21-R33
Detroit Technical Support for Gay, MI Stamp Sands Dredging Feasibility Study DOTS 21-R35
Galveston Houston Ship Channel Improvement Project (HSCIP): A Cost Effective and Technically Defensible Sampling Strategy for a 43 Mile-Long Study Area DOTS 21-R37
New York STFATE Model Runs for East River Dredged Material Placement at HARS for CENAN DOTS 21-R46
Galveston Galveston District Pipeline Policy Review DOTS 21-R56
Alaska Mound Prediction for Petersburg Harbor Dredged Material Placement at Frederick Sound Disposal Site DOTS 21-R57
Jacksonville Placement of Navigation Dredged Material DOTS 21-R58
Galveston Estimation of Corpus Christi Inner Harbor Ship Channel Dredged Material Bulking Factor for SWG DOTS 21-R59
San Francisco Develop CMS Model to Support DMMP in Crescent City Harbor for SPN DOTS 21-R60
Wilmington USACE Coastal Modeling System (CMS) Training and Hands-on Engagement for Stono Inlet Study DOTS 20-R02
Chicago Confined Disposal Facility (CDF) Plant Uptake of Contaminates Literature Review DOTS 20-R05
Rock Island Lake Red Rock Bedload Interception for Reservoir Sustainability and Commercial Soil Manufacturing DOTS 20-R09
Chicago Viable Commercial Mixture for Making a Marketable Engineered Soil DOTS 20-R11
Galveston Framework Development to Assess Resilience Management of Coastal Infrastructure for SWG DOTS 20-R15
New England NAE - BEST Model for Dredge Material Evaluations Meeting DOTS 20-R16
Jacksonville Using Satellite Imagery to Analyze Environmental Impacts from Dredging DOTS 20-R17
Detroit Preliminary Assessment of Underwater Blasting Impacts to Fishes Near the Soo Locks DOTS 20-R18
St. Paul Attend Upper Mississippi River Basin Association Meeting DOTS 20-R20
Jacksonville Sediment Thickness Report Review for Port Everglades DOTS 20-R21
Jacksonville Reducing Sedimentation Impacts on Aquatic Resources near Port Everglades DOTS 20-R22
Chicago Beneficial Use of Stockpiles Dredged Material Calumet Harbor DOTS 20-R24
Norfolk Assessment of Potential Impacts of Sacrificial Zinc Anodes to Adjacent Oyster Reefs DOTS 20-R26
New Orleans Calcasieu River Shoaling Analysis DOTS 20-R27
New York STFATE Application Buttermilk Channel for NAN DOTS 20-R28
St. Louis PIANC Working with Nature Madeira River Navigation Improvement Planning Study DOTS 20-R29
Wilmington Evaluation and Potential Removal of Dredge Restrictions Currently Imposed on the Wilmington District DOTS 20-R30
St. Louis Arecibo Sand Bar Sampling C. Jared McKnight and Anthony Emiren DOTS 20-R31
New York STFATE Application Con Edison Reach for NAN DOTS 20-R33
Buffalo Evaluation of Contaminant Data in Support of Proposed Habitat Restoration Project in a Maumee River CDF DOTS 20-R34
Buffalo Incorporating Vegetation Data into GSMB Modeling for the Ashtabula Harbor Beneficial Use Project DOTS 20-R35
San Francisco Dredging with Munitions DOTS 20-R39
Detroit Stable Isotope Sample Prep Training for the USACE Detroit District DOTS 20-R40
St. Paul St. Paul District Dredge Material Management Plan (DMMP) After Action Review DOTS 20-R41
Omaha Use of Chirp Sub-Bottom Acoustics to Recreate Lost Reservoir Pre-Impoundment Bathymetry Surveys DOTS 20-R42
Philadelphia Quick Assessment of Wind-Waves for the Mordecai Island, New Jersey Vicinity DOTS 19-R01
Jacksonville Monitoring Plan Port Everglades Deepening Project DOTS 19-R02
Galveston A Preliminary Analysis of Ship Domain Violations and Vessel Bank Interactions in the Houston Ship Channel DOTS 19-R03
St. Louis Historic Vessel Position Data near St. Louis District Lock and Dam Structures DOTS 19-R05
St. Louis Joint Workshop on AIS Analysis Package (AISAP) and Lock Operations Management Application (LOMA) DOTS 19-R06
Philadelphia Review of Fort Mifflin CDF Operations DOTS 19-R07
Mobile Engineering Analysis for the Alabama Coastal Conference DOTS 19-R08
Los Angeles San Clemente Argus Station Installation DOTS 19-R09
Jacksonville Water Quality and Sediment Monitoring for the Port Everglades Deepening Project DOTS 19-R10
Detroit Review of PCB data and analytical techniques for the Clinton River AOC DOTS 19-R11
New York STFATE Modeling of Transco Project DOTS 19-R12
Galveston Coastal Texas Navigation Feasibility Study DOTS 19-R13
Galveston Gulf of Mexico Sediment Source Identification for Texas Coastal Storm Risk Management and Ecosystem Restoration (SWG) DOTS 19-R14
Philadelphia Sub-Bottom Data Collection and Validation Strategies – NAP DOTS 19-R15
Portland Tacoma Harbor, WA Ship Simulation Study DOTS 19-R16
Detroit CHL Dickhudt Collect Sedimentation Data in Lexington Harbor for LRE DOTS 19-R17
Little Rock MKARNS Support for SWL DOTS 19-R19
Rock Island Reservoir Sedimentation Analysis – MVR DOTS 19-R20
Los Angeles Los Angeles Breakwater Repair Project- Acoustic Signatures Generated due to Boulder Placement DOTS 19-R22
Jacksonville G2CRM Training in Savannah DOTS 19-R23
Seattle Invited Presentation to the USACE’s Seattle District 2019 Sediment Management Annual Review Meeting DOTS 19-R24
Jacksonville Miami Harbor Navigation Improvements Study DOTS 19-R25
Detroit Sediment Tracer Study in Lexington Harbor For Detroit District DOTS 19-R26
Norfolk MPFATE Training for Norfolk District DOTS 19-R29
St. Louis Optimizing AIS Data Collection for the MVS District DOTS 19-R30
Mobile Hydro-MEM Coordination Meeting for SAM DOTS 19-R31
New York Water Column Evaluation for Open Water Placement of Dredged Material from Bay Ridge and Red Hook Channels and Perth Amboy Anchorage DOTS 19-R32
New Orleans TES Protective Measures for New Dredge Type for CE New Orleans District DOTS 19-R33
New York Water Column Evaluation for Open Water Placement of Dredged Material from Raritan River DOTS 19-R35
Portland Monitoring of Tainter Valve Strain Sensors at The Dalles Lock & Dam DOTS 19-R36
Philadelphia Surveying Nautical Bottom and Submerged Buried Pipelines Presentations DOTS 19-R37
Jacksonville Expanding Potential Sand Sources for Shore Protection Projects DOTS 19-R38
Portland D2M2 Implementation for NWP DOTS 19-R40
Galveston SWG; Colorado River Erosion Assessment and Recommendations DOTS 19-R41
Galveston Strategies for Evaluating NNBF Shoreline Protection Technologies along the Intracoastal Waterway DOTS 19-R42
Great Lakes Monthly Lock to Lock Traffic Connectivity to Support Maintenance Scheduling DOTS 19-R43
Savannah Brunswick Harbor, GA Ship Simulation Study DOTS 19-R47
New York Water Column Evaluation for Open Water Placement of Dredged Material from Bay Ridge and Red Hook Channels and Perth Amboy Anchorage DOTS 19-R48
New England Subject Matter Expert Consultations on Sea Turtle Cold-Stunned Issues for CE New England District DOTS 19-R21
New England Subject Matter Expert Consultations on Sea Turtle Cold-Stunned Issues for CE New England District DOTS 19-R46
Galveston A Preliminary Analysis of Ship Domain Violations and Vessel Bank Interactions in the Houston Ship Channel DOTS 19-R03
Galveston Coastal Texas Navigation Feasibility Study DOTS 19-R13
Galveston Gulf of Mexico Sediment Source Identification for Texas Coastal Storm Risk Management and Ecosystem Restoration (SWG) DOTS 19-R14
Little Rock MKARNS Support for SWL DOTS 19-R19
Los Angeles Los Angeles Breakwater Repair Project- Acoustic Signatures Generated due to Boulder Placement DOTS 19-R22
Portland D2M2 Implementation for NWP DOTS 19-R40
Galveston SWG; Colorado River Erosion Assessment and Recommendations DOTS 19-R41
Galveston Strategies for Evaluating NNBF Shoreline Protection Technologies along the Intracoastal Waterway DOTS 19-R42
Los Angeles Port Hueneme Underwater CDF and Cap Design DOTS 18-R01
Pittsburgh Corrosion Monitoring Plan for Emergency Bulkheads at Emsworth Lock and Dam DOTS 18-R11
Portland Eagle Creek Fire Sedimentation DOTS 18-R12
Honolulu Exploring the Applicability of Novel Source to Sink Methodologies to Reduce Shoaling in Harbors DOTS 18-R13
Galveston Towing Vessel Delays and Barge Lane Navigability along the Houston Ship Channel DOTS 18-R14
Detroit Sediment Budgets and Sediment Budget Analysis System (SBAS) Training Workshop DOTS 18-R15
Galveston Coastal Modeling System (CMS), Particle Tracking Model (PTM), and GenCade Workshop DOTS 18-R16
Rock Island Illinois Waterway Soil Manufacturing Investigations DOTS 18-R17
Little Rock Three Rivers, Arkansas Ship Stimulation Study DOTS 18-R18
Philadelphia Vessel Management System Replacement for the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal DOTS 18-R19
Norfolk Scope of Work for Life Cycle Analysis Task for Update to Craney Island Management Plan DOTS 18-R02
Detroit Train LRE Personnel on Use of RECOVERY/CAP Model for Designing Caps in Duluth Harbor DOTS 18-R20
Charleston Downdraft Analysis Devidue Island, SC DOTS 18-R21
St. Louis Adaptive Hydraulics (AdH) and SEDLIB Modeling of St. Louis Harbor DOTS 18-R22
Philadelphia Port of Wilmington Navigation Feasibility Study DOTS 18-R23
Detroit Seminar on the use of Radar Inlet Observing System (RIOS) technology and application for Design and Operations Branch within USACE-LRE DOTS 18-R24
New York Water Column Evaluation for Open Water Placement of Dredged Material from Wards Point DOTS 18-R25
Buffalo Review of "Cleveland Harbor (Upper Cuyahoga River Channel) Dredged Sediment Evaluation-2018" DOTS 18-R26
Kansas City Training and Support to Utilize the Particle Tracking Model to Study Interception Rearing Complexes for Endangered Pallid Sturgeon within the Missouri River DOTS 18-R27
Portland Columbia River Channel Maintenance Plan and EOS DOTS 18-R28
Omaha Quantifying Annual Values of Upper Mississippi Cargo Flows DOTS 18-R29
New England New Haven Harbor Navigation Improvement Study DOTS 18-R03
South Atlantic Division SAD Regional Biological Opinion for Corals DOTS 18-R30
New Orleans Slurry Density and Velocity Accuracy Calculations for MVN DOTS 18-R31
Los Angeles An evaluation of the application of "consensus based" PCB TEC in dredged material evaluations. DOTS 18-R04
New Orleans Harvey Lock Terrestrial LiDAR Survey DOTS 18-R05
Louisville System Evaluation and Trunnion Rod Defect Testing at the Dalles Dam DOTS 18-R06
Sacramento Dredging Placement Plan for Delta Islands and Levees Feasibility Study DOTS 18-R07
Portland CHL AdH/SMS/SEDLIB Workshop for NWP DOTS 18-R08
Baltimore Coastal Storm (CSTORM) Modeling System Workshop DOTS 18-R09
Buffalo Overall trends and variability in bioaccumulation test results from Cleveland Harbor dredged sediment evaluations DOTS 18-R33
Chicago Potential Impacts on Proposed Bubbly Creek Project due to Contamination at Depth DOTS 18-R34
Los Angeles Definition of Dredging DOTS 18-R35
Seattle Integration of Sea level Change Curve into Long-term Simulations with the Coastal Modeling System DOTS 18-R36
Honolulu Training and Setup of FUNWAVE Boussinesq Model for Navigation Projects DOTS 18-R37
Honolulu Mitigating Sea Turtle Take during 2019 Dredging in Honolulu Harbor DOTS 18-R38
Little Rock Arkansas River Navigation Mile 222 Sedimentation DOTS 18-R39
St. Louis Peoria Lakes Comprehensive Conservation Plan; Including Beneficial Use of Navigation Dredging DOTS 18-R41
Detroit Sediment Transport Model in St. Clair River Training DOTS 18-R42
Portland Habitat Creation Options in Lower Columbia River DOTS 18-R43
Detroit Pursuing Public Private Partnerships for Engineering With Nature® Projects in Western Lake Michigan) DOTS 18-R44
Los Angeles Coastal Processes Workshop for USACE Los Angeles District & Caltrans DOTS 18-R45
Portland North Head Argus Tower Collaboration and Tool Coordination DOTS 18-R46
Louisville Dog Patrol to Control Nuisance Birds at CELRL Lock and Dams DOTS 18-R47
Honolulu Analysis of Dredge Essayons Turtle Deflector Approach Angles, Inflow Screening, and Use of Turtle Tickler Chains DOTS 18-R48
New England Evaluating Risk and Resilience in Engineering with Nature Projects DOTS 18-R49
Detroit Applicability of Coarse-Grained Black Carbon as a Sediment-Lag Tracer: Au Sable River, MI DOTS 18-R50
Galveston GIS Support for Barrier Island Parameters: Coastal Breaching Index DOTS 18-R51
Jacksonville Review of Bubble Screens for Turbidity Control Associated with Dredging Projects DOTS 18-R52
Albuquerque Determination of Applicability of the ISSDOTv2 Bed-load Method to Rio Grande Bed Sediments DOTS 18-R53
New York STFATE Model Runs for Evaluating Placement for American Sugars, Reach 1 and Reach 2 DOTS 18-R54
Detroit Shallow Chirp Geophysical Survey of sediment thickness of the St. Clair River Delta, MI DOTS 18-R55
Detroit Environmental Windows in Duluth Harbor, MN, USA DOTS 18-R56
Philadelphia Ocean-Certified Dredge DOTS 18-R57
Detroit Incorporating Engineering With Nature® Principles in River Training Structures on the Mississippi River DOTS 18-R58
Galveston Shoaling Analysis using CSAT (Corps Shoaling Analysis Tool) DOTS 18-R60
Norfolk Develop Scope of Work to Perform Modeling Efforts Supporting Norfolk Harbor Deepening DOTS 18-R61
New York MCDA for Champlain Canal DOTS 18-R62
New England UAS Monitored Sandbridge Beach Evolution During the 2018 Hurricane Season DOTS 18-R63
Detroit Hydrodynamic Sediment Transport Gay Stamps Sands for LRE DOTS 18-R64
Detroit Port Huron Unmanned Aircraft System Data Collection and Technology Demonstration DOTS 18-R65
Alaska Port of Nome Modification Feasibility Study DOTS 18-R66
Jacksonville Environmental Monitoring Design to Support the Port Everglades Navigational Improvements Project DOTS 18-R67
St. Louis Incorporating Engineering With Nature® Principles in River Training Structures on the Mississippi River DOTS 18-R68
Jacksonville Mini-Argus Installation for Nearshore Berm Placement At New Smyrna Beach, FL DOTS 18-R70
Norfolk Environmental Monitoring of Benthic and Fish Resources at the Sandbridge Shoal, VA. DOTS 18-R71
Buffalo Chirp Geophysical Survey: Ogdensburg Harbor, NY DOTS 18-R72
Galveston Matagorda Entrance Channel Ship Simulation Study DOTS 18-R74