Co-coordinated by DRC members Sean Burkholder and Brian Davis, the Port Futures project is an ongoing effort funded by the Great Lakes…
The DredgeFest California Key Findings and Recommendations have been synthesized from the work of DredgeFest California, a week-long event held…
This presentation by Brett Milligan to the Bay Planning Coalition in October 2015 outlines the history and intent of the previous…
This is a digital copy of the exhibition that was compiled for the DredgeFest Great Lakes event in Minneapolis and…
[Map showing the sediment-sheds of the Four Coasts of the United States, the territory of the first four DredgeFests] This presentation…
[Gena Wirth and the ‘Sand Islands of Jamaica Bay’ map; part of the winning entry to the Museum of Modern…
[Sediment-shed of the Great Lakes Basin, from the Great Lakes Exhibition] This presentation by Sean Burkholder and Rob Holmes at…
This presentation by Brian Davis and Sean Burkholder to the Harbor Technical Advisory Committee (HTAC) in advance of DredgeFest Great…
A lecture at Washington University, by Brett Milligan [Once a dynamic inland sea of tidal wetlands, the California Delta was…
[Duluth-Superior harbor after a summer rain storm] Brett Milligan and Sean Burkholder of the DRC, together with Hugh Roberts of…
[images of student research from DredgeFest Great Lakes, August 2015, presented Sean Burkholder presented recent work and future trajectories of the…
[subsidence in the California Delta; once exposed to the air through reclamation, the peat soils of the delta have subsided…
[Panama Canal expansion. Gerardo Pesantez / World Bank] This piece in Places Journal, co-authored by Brian Davis, Brett Milligan, and Rob…
DredgeFest California was a week-long event held in June 2016 about the human manipulation of sediments in California’s Bay-Delta, from…
DredgeFest Great Lakes was a symposium, field expedition, and speculative design workshop about the human manipulation of sediments. It was an…
DredgeFest Louisiana was a symposium, field expedition, and speculative design workshop about the human manipulation of sediments, held over seven days…
Drawings produced by the Dredge Research Collaborative for exhibition at Studio-X NYC during DredgeFest NYC.
Summer 2012; Gena Wirth (Public Laboratory) and Rob Holmes (Dredge Research Collaborative), with assistance from Ben Mendelsohn and Alex Chohlas-Wood.
A continuous stream of shipping barges pass through the Mississippi River Delta, moving over 350 million tons a year through…
A massive, distended tube thirty feet in circumference and one hundred feet long lies on the bank of a drifting…
Approximately sixteen kilometers southeast of Manhattan, the southern coast of Brooklyn wraps north along Floyd Bennett Field — a former…
Let’s begin here, under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, at the notional border between New York City’s Upper and Lower Bays. The…
A studio taught by Rob Holmes at the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, Louisiana State University, Spring 2013, focused on the Houston Ship…
The Dredge Research Collaborative in live conversation in January 2012 at Studio-X NYC about the dredge cycle, artificial islands, geotubes,…
1100 AM EDT WED OCT 31 2012 The National Weather Service’s Hydrometeorological Prediction Center issues its final official prediction for…
John F. Kennedy International Airport used to be part of the massive wetland complex of Jamaica Bay before it was…
The Dredge Research Collaborative has been assisting film makers Ben Mendelsohn and Alex Chohlas-Wood as they produce a short film about dredge. You can…
The Festival of Dredge in New York was a symposium about the human acceleration of sediments, and the technologies and…
Situated at the confluence of the Elizabeth and the James Rivers, Craney Island is a tangle of contradictions. It is…
