Brittany Bruder

U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

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Brittany Bruder is an emerging researcher specializing in coastal engineering and autonomous systems, with a particular focus on robotic technologies for surveying challenging nearshore environments. Her work addresses a critical gap in coastal science: the safe and efficient collection of topographic and bathymetric data across the beachface, surfzone, and very nearshore — environments that are notoriously hazardous for human operators and difficult to instrument with traditional methods. Bruder's most notable contributions involve the evaluation and deployment of amphibious uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs) for seamless coastal survey operations. Her 2023 study demonstrated the viability of a commercial off-the-shelf bottom-crawling robot, the Bayonet-350, enhanced with RTK positioning, for collecting continuous elevation data across the land-sea interface. Complementing this, her 2022 work systematically evaluated autonomous system performance in the surfzone, leveraging the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Field Research Facility in Duck, North Carolina — a world-renowned coastal research site. With a combined citation count still growing, Bruder's research is laying important groundwork for the future of autonomous coastal monitoring, promising improved safety, reduced costs, and richer datasets for scientists and engineers studying dynamic coastal systems.