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  • April

    Norfolk beach expansion combats sea-level rise

    Norfolk Mayor Paul Fraim and other city leaders joined Col. Paul Olsen, Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commander and signed a historic project partnership agreement that lays the foundation for construction of a coastal storm damage reduction project to protect the Willoughby and Ocean View neighborhoods of Norfolk.

  • Fort Detrick Breaks Ground on Renewable Energy Project

    NAD Baltimore District formed a project development team with Headquarters, USACE, to provide key technical support to the Army leadership and Fort Detrick for this complex project.
  • The STURGIS, a former World War II Liberty Ship, was converted into the first floating nuclear power plant in the 1960s sits idle in the James River Reserve Fleet at Joint Base Langley Eustis, Virginia; where it has been stored and maintained since 1978. The Baltimore District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will tow the STURGIS barge 1,750 miles to Galveston, Texas for decommissioning

    STURGIS leaving the James River Fleet after 37 years

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to start towing the STURGIS barge 1,750 miles to Galveston, Texas, today. The trip to the Port of Galveston will take approximately three weeks and will comply with the U.S. Coast Guard’s regulations.
  • Contractors meet informally during the 2015 Industry Day sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, on April 10.

    Corps of Engineers Baltimore District hosts 2015 Industry Day

    More than 300 representatives from 190 companies joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore

  • Fort Detrick Breaks Ground on Renewable Energy Project

    Fort Detrick and U.S. Army leadership, alongside federal, state and local officials, broke ground on
  • Gathright Dam's intake tower stands out in Lake Moomaw Oct. 13, 2010. The dam and Lake Moomaw Project provide flood protection of industrial, commerical and residential properties along the Jackson and James rivers with immediate impact on Covington, Va.

    Gathright Dam to conduct a routine, controlled flood release

    The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin a controlled flood release at Gathright Dam near Covington, Va., at 9:30 a.m.
  • Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and 53rd Chief of Engineers, chats with Dr. Judith Allen, Department of Defense Education Activity Korea District superintendent (far left) about the millennial school construction project at Osan Air Base April 8, 2015. The school will be the first one in Korea with a 21st Century design.

    Far East District hosts 53rd Chief of Engineers

    Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Chief

  • Corps evaluates STEM competition at Middle Tennessee State University

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 14, 2015) – A group of technical experts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District attended a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Science Expo as judges and staffed an exhibit sponsored by the Middle Tennessee STEM Innovation Hub at the Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro on April 9.
  • An interesting feature of Montana’s T.rex is that it was found with a third digit, demonstrating that T.rex had a vestigial third finger. For decades Tyrannosaurus rex was thought to have had only two fingers at the end of its tiny arms.

    What’s the Army Doing with Dinosaurs? Redux

    On April 11, Montana State University’s, Museum of the Rockies publicly opened a new permanent exhibit in its Siebel Dinosaur Complex called “The Tyrant Kings.” At the center of the exhibit is a nearly 12-foot-tall, 40-foot-long fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. The fossil, known by many names: “Peck's Rex” because it was found in 1997 near Fort Peck Dam and Reservoir in Montana and scientifically, “MOR 980” the specimen number assigned to the fossil when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers entrusted it to the Museum of the Rockies in 1998. With the opening of the exhibit, it will become known as “Montana’s T.rex.”
  • EARTH DAY -- Acknowledge the Past. Engage the Present. Chart the Future. Sustain the Mission. Secure the Future.

    Army Corps turns its focus to Earth Day activities

    Taking care of the Earth is an everyday mission for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, but the agency does find ways each spring to increase its emphasis on sustainability and environmental stewardship just a bit. This year is no different. From our district in Germany to Hawaii, from New England to southern California and many districts and divisions in between, the Corps of Engineers is observing Earth Day in a number of ways.
  • Gerald Rogers, public affairs specialist with the Norfolk District, talks about the Corps environmental mission with an attendee at the Virginia Environmental Symposium, April 1.

    USACE turns its focus to Earth Day activities

    Forty-five years ago a Wisconsin senator wanted the country to pause on April 22 for a “national teach-in on the environment,” and think about taking care of the planet on which we live. Thanks to Sen. Gaylord Nelson’s efforts, Earth Day was born.
  • Wesley Malone, a project manager with the Army Corps of Engineers Huntsville Center, helps Rolling Hills student maintain a kite.

    Energy Team flies kites, teaches alternative energy concepts

    Kites and electricity may sound like Ben Franklin to some. But now, instead of using a kite to prove

  • Norfolk beach expansion combats sea-level rise

    Mayor Paul Fraim and other city of Norfolk leaders joined Col. Paul Olsen, Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commander, along Ocean View Beach to sign a historic project partnership agreement that lays the foundation for construction of a coastal storm damage reduction project.
  • Photo collage of the engineered blocks to be used for operation and maintenance work on the Cleveland Harbor Green Breakwater Project, Cleveland, OH

    USACE Buffalo District: A proving ground for Engineering with Nature

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Buffalo District has been named as one of two ‘Proving
  • Students from the Putnam County School System wear BOAT US Foundation Life jackets to illustrate the importance of water safety in Cookeville, Tenn.

    Loaner Life jackets help save lives at Dale Hollow Lake

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District park rangers and staff at Dale Hollow Lake are continuing to help keep kids and adults safe while recreating at area lakes and on the water by participating in the Boat US Foundation Life Jacket Loaner Program for kids!
  • The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) President Ortwin Renn, right, presents the Outstanding Practitioner Award to ERDC-EL Research Physical Scientist Dr. Igor Linkov at the SRA’s annual meeting Dec. 10 in Denver, Colorado. This award is presented to one SRA member each year for outstanding risk analysis practices.

    EL’s Linkov honored as 2014’s Risk Analysis Outstanding Practitioner

    VICKSBURG, Miss. - U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Environmental
  • Military families and friends joined the Michigan National Guard Family Programs staff and the Easter bunny for an egg hunt at the Lansing Center in downtown Lansing, Michigan, on Sunday, April 13, 2014. Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger in 1986 designated each April as "The Month of the Military Child" as a way to recognize contributions that the military child makes as their parent or parents serve our states and nation.

    Month of the Military Child in April recognizes young family members

    WASHINGTON - To highlight the year-round contributions, courage and patriotism of the military

  • Formal partnering creates team atmosphere

    Trying to conduct business through email can often lead to misunderstandings and working across cultural barriers can complicate matters further, even when participants have a common goal. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Middle East District, has a solution to ease this difficulty. During the recent Maritime Traffic Coordination Center post-award conference, which took place March 15-17 in Kuwait, the team dedicated one morning to a formal partnering session.

  • March

    ROSWELL, N.M. – A view of the completed project from the top of Diamond A Dam, March 5, 2015. The new erosion-control rip rap is seen in the middle of the photo.

    A Good Relationship to Keep

    Recently the District and the Bureau of Reclamation teamed up to fix some flood damage at the District's Two Rivers project in Southeastern New Mexico. This isn't the first time the two agenices have cooperated.
  • JOHN MARTIN RESERVOIR, Colo., -- This is the sandstone survey marker found in 2001 at the reservoir. It marked a corner of the Mary Prowers Indian Claim No. 19, also known as a "beef-steak claim."

    District Archaeologist Shares Historical Discoveries at Colorado Conference

    District archaeologist Gregory Everhart attended the 37th Annual Conference of the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists where he presented on historical findings on recent cultural resources activities at Trinidad Lake and John Martin Reservoir.
  • Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Explosive Destruction System operators place a Department of Transportation bottle containing mustard agent in the Munitions Holder for destruction March 18. After safe detonation, the bottle, which will be a metal fragment, is removed from the vessel.

    First mustard agent destruction marks another milestone for Center's Chemical Demilitarization Program

    The March 18 destruction of the first item in the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Explosive Destruction System (PCAPP EDS) marked another milestone for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville Chemical Demilitarization program.
  • From the top of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' dam at Stennis Lock on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in Mississippi, Hon. Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, asks lock operations manager Rickey Saucer about the lighting in the dam recreation area parking lot. Darcy and Kate Brandt, Federal Environmental Executive, White House Council of Environmental Quality, visited the Mobile District lock and dam Jan. 21 to learn about their energy and sustainability efforts with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville. Through the first-ever Energy Savings Performance Contract for a civil works project managed by Huntsville Center, Mobile District is retrofitting and replacing lighting at 46 locations along the 234-mile waterway, which will result in guaranteed savings of more than $172,700 in the first year alone.

    Assisting USACE, federal agencies with Energy Portfolio Management approach

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, is executing a holistic energy portfolio management approach for helping Army organizations and other federal agencies achieve federal energy mandates, reduce energy consumption and enhance energy security.
  • Alaska Clean Seas’ Advanced Oil Spill Response students recently prepared a mechanical skimmer as part of their hands-on training with oil spill recovery equipment hosted at ERDC-CRREL’s Geophysical Research Facility.

    Oil spill responders train at CRREL to keep the arctic clean

    HANOVER, N.H. – The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory recently hosted Alaska Clean Seas’ Advanced Oil Spill Response Training; it was the fourth year they hosted the event. ACS representatives onsite included the course lead, while others provide training station instruction and certification.
  • WINCHESTER, Va. - Students from local high schools make plans to construct a water tower with toothpicks and gumdrops during the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Middle East District’s Day with an Engineer March 19 held at Lord Fairfax Community College’s Middletown campus.

    Students experience a Day with an Engineer

    WINCHESTER, Va. – Nearly 100 students from eight area high schools took a day away from their usual studies to learn about engineering career fields March 21 at Lord Fairfax Community College’s Middletown Campus. During the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Middle East District’s annual Day with an Engineer, high school students interacted with engineers to explore the different disciplines of the engineering field.

  • STEM careers are in sight!

    If you look out the large windows of Public School 330 in the Borough of Queens in New York City,
  • The remaining structures from the 1964 New York State World’s Fair as seen from the windows of Public School 330. The viewable structures include the Unisphere, Pavilion and observatory towers.

    STEM careers are in sight!

    If you look out the large windows of Public School 330 in the Borough of Queens in New York City,
  • ARLINGTON , Va. -- Cranes stand by for the arrival of the first precast concrete support arches to arrive at the Arlington National Cemetery Millennium Project here March 3, 2015. The archways will support the loop road bridge, which spans a restored stream at the cemetery’s 27-acre expansion project. The project will add nearly 30,000 burial and niche spaces with a mix of above-ground columbariums and in-ground burials. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)

    Over 27,000 burial sites to open at Arlington next year

    In 2016, Arlington National Cemetery, or ANC, will open "an additional 27,282 burial opportunities," Patrick K. Hallinan told lawmakers.

  • Europe realignment, consolidation among key themes at annual USACE workshop

    WIESBADEN, Germany – Top engineers have begun outlining the steps they’ll take in two major programs to bolster allies while streamlining U.S. forces and assets in Europe over the next several years. Discussions about the European Reassurance Initiative and European Infrastructure Consolidation came during the 2015 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District Partner Workshop.
  • National Hurricane Program Manager Chris Penney, Planning Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, speaks about storm surge forecasting to ‎more than 70 participants from various agencies to kick off the two-day Maryland Coastal Flood Workshop in Chester, Maryland, March 11, 2015. Penney works on hurricane evacuation studies with our partners.

    First-of-its-kind workshop focuses on storm surge, coastal flood risk in Maryland

    Storms are becoming stronger and more prevalent, and they are wiping out entire coastal communities - and not just along the Gulf Coast. First-of-its-kind workshop focuses on storm surge, coastal flood risk in Maryland - funded by the Maryland Silver Jackets
  • Inland Waterways Users Board members and other participants (pictured here on February 24, 2015) visited the Holt and Oliver Locks and Dams along the Black Warrior River. The river is formed about 22 miles west of Birmingham. Holt Lake, formed by the Holt Lock and Dam, Oliver Lake, formed by the Oliver Lock and Dam, and another reservoir encompass the entire course of the river for its upper 60 miles. It stretches southeast into central Tuscaloosa County and Tuscaloosa, the largest city on the river.

    Inland Waterways Users Board Meets in Birmingham

    ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA. The 74th meeting of the Inland Waterways Users Board (the Board) was held on