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  • November

    Scientist speaks to classroom of children, uses hand gestures while speaking

    Norfolk District and young scientists intersect during geotagging event

    Students and teachers from Norfolk Christian Lower School geoprocessed data with employees from Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to recognize GIS Day.

  • February

    NORFOLK, VA – Heavy equipment is staged along the beach in Norfolk, Virginia’s East Ocean View neighborhood. Contractors will use the equipment to move dredged up sand on the beach to create a 60 foot wide beach berm that slopes to 5 feet above mean low water. Engineers’ designed the beach to absorb the wave energy, protecting critical infrastructure during coastal storms. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)

    National Engineers Week: Military Engineers Transform Dreams into Reality

    Military engineers from the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and U.S. Navy (USN) continue to work hard to transform today’s dreams into tomorrow’s reality. Showcasing creativity, passion, and technical acumen, these engineers are creating a better future.

  • May

    HAMPTON, Va. -- Leaders break ground for the NASA Computational Research Facility at NASA Langley Research Center May 22, 2015. Pictured, left to right, are Shannon Kendrick, district director for the office of U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell; Erik Weiser, acting director of center operations at NASA Langley; David Bowles, acting center director at NASA Langley; Col. Paul Olsen, commander, Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Christian Jahrling, vice president of Turner Construction Co.; and Linda Curtis, vice mayor of the City of Hampton. The 40,000-square-foot center, the construction of which will be overseen by the Norfolk District and carried out by Turner Construction Co., will provide a consolidated data center and high-density office space. (U.S. Army photo/Kerry Solan

    Corps, NASA breakground on new data center

    Dignitaries from NASA, the Norfolk District, U.S Army Corps of Engineers and private industry gathered on a grassy field, nestled within the confines of NASA’s Langley Research Center, to breakground on a new building that will help take the human race to mars.

  • April

    Colonel Paul Olsen, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Norfolk District commander, provides opening remarks for the 2015 Mid-Atlantic Waterways Conference ongoing through April 23, at the Portsmouth-Norfolk Renaissance Waterfront Hotel in Portsmouth, Va. Joining him is Arthur W. Moye Jr., executive vice president, Virginia Maritime Association and Captain Christopher Keane, U.S. Coast Guard commander, Sector Hampton Roads.

    Mid-Atlantic Waterways Conference seeks solutions to pressing maritime issues

    With “Planning for the Future: Challenges and Opportunities” as their theme, professionals from government and industry met at the 2015 Mid-Atlantic Waterways Conference in Portsmouth, Virginia, this week to discuss the future of the maritime community.

  • May

    ARLINGTON, Va. – Randy Barton, an Arlington National Cemetery engineering technician, lights a temporary flame using a torch that was lit from the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame at the cemetery April 29, 2013. The temporary flame will burn while the permanent flame undergoes repair and upgrade work to install new burners, a new igniter and new gas and air lines. Work on the burner itself will take about three weeks to complete. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)

    Repairs begin on JFK Eternal Flame

    ARLINGTON, Va. -- Contractors began work here Monday, April 29, on the burner of the President John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame, which has been lit since 1967. Technicians from Meltech Corp., Inc.; based in Landover, Md.; built an 8-foot temporary fence and installed a temporary flame at one of the most visited sites in Arlington National Cemetery.

  • March

    (From left to right) David King, Ph.D., Zeki Dmemirbilek, Don Ward and Lihwa Lin, are the team members performing the computer modeling efforts in Vicksburg, Miss. The end result will assist Norfolk District engineers with designing a jetty that will maximize the benefits within the alloted $3.6 million to design and build it for the residents Tangier, Va.

    For eroding island, engineers' efforts start with models

    NORFOLK, Va. -- Waterman and residents on the tiny, sinking island of Tangier worry every time the winds blow through the fishing community at more than 30 miles per hour. The island, located in the Chesapeake Bay just below the Maryland and Virginia border, is sinking and eroding away -- a dilemma that's expedited by churning storm waters.

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