San Francisco District planning team applies nature-based solutions to Roi-Namur recovery efforts

Tammy L. Reed — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:21:45 GMT

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers San Francisco District’s knowledge of and push for Engineering with Nature principles and designs reached a new high as the district’s EWN expertise jumped an ocean all the way to Roi-Namur, the second largest island of the Kwajalein Atoll in the western central Pacific Ocean. It’s part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and it lies 2,100 nautical miles southwest of Honolulu and about 4,200 nautical miles southwest of San Francisco. On Oct. 11, a San Francisco District project development team submitted its preliminary EWN and non-EWN design plans to protect facilities against large waves to the USACE Honolulu District to present to the U.S. Army Garrison – Kwajalein Atoll and U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command.

San Francisco District’s Harper continues ERDC University project

Patrice Creel, ERDC Office of Research and Technology Transfer — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:38:00 GMT

Spencer Harper, a coastal engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) San Francisco District, reached the halfway mark in his research project with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) six-month detail program known as ERDC University, or ERDC-U.

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San Francisco District planning team applies nature-based solutions to Roi-Namur recovery efforts

San Francisco District’s Harper continues ERDC University project