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  • August

    Peer Supporters Stand Ready to Assist Employees

    For the past eight years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been providing emotional first aid to employees through the Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) program. CISM began in the Southwestern Division after employees started having adverse reactions following several instances of people drowning at local Corps’ projects.

  • July

    One of the many Tamarisk Leaf Beetles caught during the workshop.

    Tiny Beetle Being Used to Control Pesky Plant

    On May 30, employees from the District’s environmental section participated in the Tamarisk Leaf Beetle Monitoring Workshop at a field training location in Bernalillo, N.M. The hands-on workshop, attended by approximately 30 people from the Corps and other governmental and state agencies, was conducted by the Tamarisk Coali-tion, a non-profit alliance out of Colorado whose mission is to restore riparian lands.
  • Participants break new ground for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicle Direc-torate’s Space Sensors Laboratory. Pictured left to right are: Mike Granjean, vice president, GranCor Enterprises, Inc.; Maria Cornay, president, GranCor Enterprises, Inc.; Col. Bill Coo-ley, materiel wing director, Space Vehicles Directorate; Dr. Mayer Landau, scientist, Space Vehicles Directorate; Michael Gallegos, chief, Infrastructure Management Branch, Space Vehicles Directorate; Col. Edward Masterson, division chief, Spacecraft Technology Division, Operations and Integration Division Space Vehicles Directorate; Filemon Gallegos, project manager, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District; Sue Atwood, deputy director, Space Vehicles Directorate; and Dr. Christian Morath, scientist, Space Vehicles Directorate.

    AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate to Get Three Labs

    District employees participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) new Space Sensors and Infrared Radiation Effects Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base June 7.
  • Lt. Col. Richard Collins and a student demonstrate life jacket safety.

    District’s Deputy Wows Kindergarten Class

    On May 19, Lt. Col. Richard Collins, Albuquerque District Deputy Commander, was invited to the school for a presentation to his son William’s kindergarten class.
  • SPA Archaeologist Jeremy Decker records a piece of fire-cracked rock, one of a series of artifacts showing where prehistoric people built a hearth.

    Archaeology in the Land of the Dead

    Jornada del Muerto – Journey of the Dead - for more than two centuries, Spanish colonists traveling between Mexico City and the Spanish colonial outpost at Santa Fe had to cross this desolate, waterless valley in south-central New Mexico.
  • Sunflowers are native to New Mexico and are springing up in swales all over the Rio Grande’s Bosque.

    Corps Checks Progress of Ecosystem Restoration

    The Corps has been actively involved in restoring the ecosystem of the Middle Rio Grande since 2007, when the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District initiated projects incorporating ecosystem revitalization along Route 66.
  • The prepared sandbags are stacked by participating community members.

    Corps Provides Sandbag Training for Communities

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers offered hands-on sandbag training and emergency flood preparedness at the City Park in Glenwood, N.M., June 9 and 16. The training was open to residents of Catron County communities, as that area has the potential to experience flooding during the upcoming monsoon season in the aftermath of prolonged burning by fires.

  • June

    This sign shows the various hand signals used in crane operations.

    Technicians Undergo Crane and Rigging Certification

    Eighteen technicians from the District’s managed lakes and reservoirs attended Class II Crane and Hoist Operator Certification training held at Cochiti Lake April 25 and 26.
  • This is a screen shot of an aerial image as seen on one of the District's web map viewers.

    Web Map Viewers Help See the Big Picture

    The concept of a web map viewer is to make spatially oriented data and related information available to a wide viewing audience for general education, planning and decision making. Most everything under the Corps’ myriad missions has spatial association, such as levees, lakes, real estate, regulatory permitting, tribal partnering, planning, environmental restoration and cultural work activities.
  • On March 27, 2012, Cochiti Project employees hosted seven professional water managers representing five counties in the Sahel Region of Africa. Specifically, the water managers represented Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal. The visitors and their interpreter are shown with Supervisory Park Ranger Mark Rosacker (second from right).

    Cochiti Lake Project Welcomes International Visitors

    For the third year, employees in the Corps’ Cochiti Lake project welcomed visitors with the Council on International Relations (CIR) and discussed Cochiti Dam history and operations. This year, the group also learned about the aftermath of the Las Conchas Fire and the Corps’ tribal relations and partnerships.