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  • October

    This is a computerized graphic of an island with numerous types of trees and bushes on it in front of a gabion (rock wall) and a concrete seawall in front of the ocean.

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

    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.

  • September

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers San Francisco District coastal engineer Spencer Harper, right, and his mentor, Dr. Gaurav Savant, a research hydraulic engineer with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), discuss wave generated bed shear stress in the San Francisco Bay while working on Harper’s project as a participant in the ERDC’s detail program, ERDC University.

    San Francisco District’s Harper continues ERDC University project

    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.

  • August

    Col. Antoinette “Toni” Gant, commander of the Corps’ South Pacific Division, center; Cheree Peterson, SES, programs director, South Pacific Division, left; and Col. Julie Balten, LA District commander, right, arrive at Prado Dam Resident Office Aug. 24 in Corona, California.

    South Pacific Division leaders reflect on Women's Equality Day

    Women's Equality Day, celebrated annually on August 26, commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 1920, granting women the right to vote. This effort to gain legal recognition as equal citizens had its formal beginning in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first women’s rights convention was held.