Story by John Budnik | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District | 03.15.2022
Members of the traveling party with Jaime Pinkham, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, witnessed this polar bear encounter near the community of Utqiagvik, formerly known as Barrow, while touring the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District’s Barrow Coastal Erosion Project. During the week of Feb. 21, the dignitary visited several civil works projects in......
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District | 04.30.2019
Accurately capturing and recording an underwater ecosystem is a difficult task and one made more difficult when it involves the deep, cold and dark waters of Alaska. This is the challenge presented to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District and Matt Ferguson, a biologist with the Environmental Resources Section in the Civil Works Branch....