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    Hawai'i wildfires: Q&A with the outgoing ESF#3 team leaders

    The current Emergency Support Function #3 team leader and assistant team leader for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Hawai'i wildfires response are coming to the end of their deployment and offer insight to their time in the roles.
  • Donna Williams, USACE, New Orleans District (MVN), Internal Review (IR) chief, right, Albert Hervey, Galveston District (SWG) IR chief, left and Geoffrey Veuleman, SWG IR auditor, center, meet in the Jadwin Building, Aug. 31, 2023. Williams visited Galveston to train with SWG IR auditors.

    MVN shares lessons learned with SWG Internal Review

    Within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Internal Review (IR) supports the local commander and their staff by improving programs and operations through independent analytical reviews and studies, or audits. After 14 years with USACE New Orleans District (MVN) IR, and 29 years of total audit experience, Donna Williams, MVN IR chief, has some lessons learned to share with new auditors, especially when it comes to conducting an audit during an Emergency Management response to a natural disaster. “The main idea for the emergency missions is to get in and do the work and get out,” Williams said. “The whole key is for us to stay out of the way, but what we do is extremely valuable.”
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    Sustainable rivers program (SRP)

    The Sustainable Rivers Program improves the health and life of rivers by changing dam operations to restore and protect ecosystems, while maintaining or enhancing other project benefits. The SRP was first considered in 1998 when the Nature Conservancy approached the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers about improved operations of the Green River Dam in Kentucky. SRP began in fiscal year 2002 with funding of $50,000 for environmental flows on the Green River.
  • Carol Wortman, chief solutions architect for ITL’s Supercomputing Resource Center

    ERDC’s Wortman perseveres from the lab to the English Channel

    Carol Wortman, a member of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) team, can say something very few swimmers will ever be able to say: she took on the English Channel and won.
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    Institute for Water Resources honors two alumni with highest recognition

    ALEXANDRIA, VA -- (Sept. 1, 2023) The Institute for Water Resources (IWR), a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Field Operating Activity, has bestowed its highest honor to two alumni by inducting them into the IWR Class of 2023 Distinguished Gallery of Employees.