Home / Media / News Stories

News Story Archive

  • May

    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.

  • April

    SANTA CLARA PUEBLO, N.M., -- Maj. Gen. Kendall P. Cox, Deputy Commanding General, Military and International Operations, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, (left), toured Santa Clara Pueblo, March 27, 2014. He discussed the devastation that occurred on Pueblo lands with Sheriff Regis Chavarria, Santa Clara Pueblo, and Tamara Massong, chief, Hydrology and Hydraulics, Albuquerque District, U.S. Corps of Engineers.

    Maj. Gen. Cox, Mr. Joe Calcara Meet with Albuquerque District Stakeholders in Northern New Mexico

    Senior leaders from the USACE headquarters and the Albuquerque District toured the flood and wildfire damaged lands on the Santa Clara Pueblo, March 27, 2014.
  • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., -- Lt. Col. Gant, commander, Albuquerque District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Corps, and Kurt Wagener, field engineer for the Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority with the Girl Scout Troop #35 as they display their new badges, March 22, 2014.

    Local Girl Scout Troup Receives Badges for Joint Collaboration with USACE/AMAFCA

    District Commander Lt. Col. Gant and Kurt Wagener, field engineer for the Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority (AMAFCA), presented two merit badges to Girl Scout Troop #35, March 22, 2014. The girls had helped the Corps and AMAFCA with an ecosystem project, creating burrowing owl habitats.

  • March

    SAN ACACIA, N.M., -- John D’Antonio, the District’s deputy district engineer and chief of Planning, Programs and Project Management Division, speaks about the flood control project while New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez; Derick Lente from the MRGCD; and N.M. Environmental Department Secretary Ryan Flynn look on, March 19, 2014.

    Middle Rio Grande Flood Protection Construction Gets Funding

    New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez announced the approval of $1 million in state Capital Outlay funds to help fund the first two phases of the Corps’ Rio Grande Floodway, San Acacia to Bosque del Apache, N.M., project.
  • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., -- Corps and SWCA biologists using the combined box and bag seine technique to monitor fish populations in the Rio Grande.

    Seining for ‘Silver’ in the Rio Grande

    How Rio Grande silvery minnows are counted is examined in this article as well as implications if it is not an accurate count.

  • February

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., -- The Rio Grande flows through the Bosque near Alameda Bridge, Nov. 3, 2013.

    Water, Weather and the Future

    In cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Sandia National Labs, the Corps of Engineers recently issued the West-Wide Climate Risk Assessment: Upper Rio Grande Impact Assessment (URGIA), which investigates historic and future climate trends in the Rio Grande Basin.

  • Students Study STEM through Interactive Presentations

    Seventy students from two area schools gathered at the District’s main office to learn more about the importance of STEM and some of the various ways these subjects are essential in what the Corps of Engineers does on a daily basis.
  • SANTA FE, N.M., -- Marcy Leavitt, Texas/New Mexico branch chief, Regulatory Division, Albuquerque District, was a recipient of the 2014 New Mexico Earth Science Achievement Award for outstanding contributions advancing the role of earth science in areas of public service and public policy in New Mexico. L. Greer Price, director and state geologist, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Tech, presented Leavitt with the award Jan. 29, 2014, during a ceremony at the Capitol Building.

    Regulator Receives Earth Science Achievement Award

    On Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, Marcy Leavitt, branch chief of the Texas/New Mexico Regulatory Division in the District, was the recipient of the 2014 New Mexico Earth Science Achievement Award.

  • January

    2014 New Mexico Earth Science Achievement Awards

    The winners of the 2014 New Mexico Earth Science Achievement Awards were recently announced. This year the awards will go to Marcy L. Leavitt of the Albuquerque District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for outstanding contributions advancing the role of earth science in areas of public service and public policy in New Mexico, and to Dr. David S. Gutzler of the University of New Mexico for outstanding contributions advancing the role of earth science in areas of applied science and education in New Mexico.
  • ABIQUIU LAKE, N.M. -- Volunteers prepare to survey bald eagles as part of the annual midwinter bald eagle watch at the lake, Jan. 4, 2014.

    Volunteers Help Abiquiu Lake Staff Survey Bald Eagles

    District staff at Abiquiu Lake has partnered with volunteers for more than a decade to participate in the national midwinter bald eagle survey. This year’s results: 14 eagles counted Jan. 4, 2014.