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    Janet Post and Danielle Shack, regulatory specialists in the Regulatory Division, visited Turnagain Elementary School April 23 to meet with fifth and sixth-grade students to talk about wetlands and promote their studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The children learned about different types of wetlands around Alaska and how they help protect from floods and pollutants. The students also felt and touched different animal pelts, bones and hides that use wetlands for their habitat.

    Corps promotes wetlands awareness to elementary students

    Hands were thrown upward toward the classroom ceiling when sixth-grade students answered whether they have visited Potter Marsh, Connors Bog or took a trip on the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail. These public recreational sites are either adjacent to waters of the United States or are local wetlands within the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District’s regulatory program.
  • Students design and build a structure out of toothpicks and gum drops during Day with an Engineer.

    Middle East District hosts Day with an Engineer for local high school students

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Middle East District hosted a Day with an Engineer for local high school students April 29 at the Middle East District headquarters in Winchester, Va. Day with an Engineer allowed students considering careers in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics to hear from professionals and learn more about these fields.
  • EMBUDO, N.M., -- USGS Hydrologist George Seiber holds up two different instruments for measuring stream flow. The left one uses acoustics to measure; the instrument on the right is a traditional mechanical current meter.

    125 Years of Systematic Streamgaging

    As part of 2014’s Earth Day events, the District joined the USGS in a celebration for the 125th anniversary of the Embudo streamgage which was constructed as part of a training site for hydrographers and hydrologists to support irrigation in the desert southwest.
  • Jason Harrah, Jacksonville Harbor project manager, shows Mayport Elementary Coastal Sciences Academy fifth graders examples of projects that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has built across the country.

    Fifth grade students take on Jax Port deepening debate

    Mayport Elementary Coastal Sciences Academy fifth graders are studying the Jax Port “dredging debate” and recently invited the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District to present its case. The kindergarten through fifth grade academy teaches students the importance of preserving habitats and ecosystems through resources conservation.
  • Col. Dodd

    CEPP may have hit speedbump but is far from dead

    April 30, 2014Last week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works Review Board (CWRB) decided to