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    Beneath the layers of dirt

    Crews are deploying a multiple electrode resistivity unit – MER, for short – to create a map of changes in the soil beneath as part of the geotechnical investigations process developed for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to improve knowledge of the conditions for levee foundations as well as the construction of the levees themselves.
  • One of the many Tamarisk Leaf Beetles caught during the workshop.

    Tiny Beetle Being Used to Control Pesky Plant

    On May 30, employees from the District’s environmental section participated in the Tamarisk Leaf Beetle Monitoring Workshop at a field training location in Bernalillo, N.M. The hands-on workshop, attended by approximately 30 people from the Corps and other governmental and state agencies, was conducted by the Tamarisk Coali-tion, a non-profit alliance out of Colorado whose mission is to restore riparian lands.
  • Participants break new ground for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicle Direc-torate’s Space Sensors Laboratory. Pictured left to right are: Mike Granjean, vice president, GranCor Enterprises, Inc.; Maria Cornay, president, GranCor Enterprises, Inc.; Col. Bill Coo-ley, materiel wing director, Space Vehicles Directorate; Dr. Mayer Landau, scientist, Space Vehicles Directorate; Michael Gallegos, chief, Infrastructure Management Branch, Space Vehicles Directorate; Col. Edward Masterson, division chief, Spacecraft Technology Division, Operations and Integration Division Space Vehicles Directorate; Filemon Gallegos, project manager, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District; Sue Atwood, deputy director, Space Vehicles Directorate; and Dr. Christian Morath, scientist, Space Vehicles Directorate.

    AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate to Get Three Labs

    District employees participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) new Space Sensors and Infrared Radiation Effects Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base June 7.
  • Lt. Col. Richard Collins and a student demonstrate life jacket safety.

    District’s Deputy Wows Kindergarten Class

    On May 19, Lt. Col. Richard Collins, Albuquerque District Deputy Commander, was invited to the school for a presentation to his son William’s kindergarten class.
  • SPA Archaeologist Jeremy Decker records a piece of fire-cracked rock, one of a series of artifacts showing where prehistoric people built a hearth.

    Archaeology in the Land of the Dead

    Jornada del Muerto – Journey of the Dead - for more than two centuries, Spanish colonists traveling between Mexico City and the Spanish colonial outpost at Santa Fe had to cross this desolate, waterless valley in south-central New Mexico.