{"id":4896,"date":"2011-07-13T20:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2011-07-13T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T21:12:28","slug":"the-waterways-experiment-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/the-waterways-experiment-station\/","title":{"rendered":"the waterways experiment station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5229\" title=\"usace-wes\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/usace-wes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/usace-wes.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/usace-wes-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[The  Waterways Experiment Station, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/maps\/?v=2&amp;where1=Clinton%2C%20MS&amp;q=clinton%2C%20ms&amp;form=LMLTSN&amp;cp=32.30099255219331%7E-90.86095694592889&amp;lvl=15&amp;sty=a&amp;encType=1\">in Vicksburg, Mississippi<\/a>, is currently  the home of the Army Corp&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/chl.erdc.usace.army.mil\/\">Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory<\/a>. \u00a0(It also  is the entity which operated the <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/the-mississippi-basin-model\/\">Mississippi Basin Model<\/a>, and the research into flood control and river hydrology which was once conducted physically on that model and its <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/san-francisco-bay-model\/\">sister models<\/a> is now conducted, primarily through computer simulations, at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory.) \u00a0The Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory is one of seven USACE research posts, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crrel.usace.army.mil\/\">Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tec.army.mil\/\">Topographic Engineering Center<\/a>, which cumulatively compose a distributed network for landscape science known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdc.usace.army.mil\/\">Engineer Research and Development Center<\/a>. \u00a0If the Army Corps of Engineers can be understood as <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/06\/six-dams-and-six-reservoirs\/\">&#8220;the country\u2019s most radically avant-garde landscape practice&#8221;<\/a>, then that network of research posts should be understood as one of the key elements in that practice, as it is within those seven compounds that they analyze, <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/tag\/experimental-landscape-architecture\/\">experiment<\/a>, and predict.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The Waterways Experiment Station, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, is currently the home of the Army Corp&#8217;s Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory. \u00a0(It also is the entity which operated the Mississippi Basin Model, and the research into flood control and river hydrology which was once conducted physically on that model and its sister models is now conducted, primarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,594],"tags":[593,624],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-floods","tag-army-corps-of-engineers","tag-experimental-landscape-architecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5232,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions\/5232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}