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  • March

    Martha Brandl, Bonneville Dam resident engineer, has three small children (including twins) and a second set of twins on the way in May. With (soon-to-be) five children under the age of 4, Brandl knows full well the struggles of balancing full-time work with the 24/7 role of parent.

    What’s it like being a working mom in 2022?

    We asked our Bonneville Dam Resident Engineer, Martha Brandl, who balances her full-time position as a rockstar on our team with raising three children—including two twins. (That’s soon to be five, as Martha is expecting a second set of twins in May.)

  • October

    A Pacific lamprey clings to a fish viewing window at Bonneville Lock & Dam. Engineers didn’t design the fish ladders, which successfully move salmon upstream of the lower Columbia River dams (Bonneville, The Dalles and John Day) with lamprey in mind. But that’s changing. (U.S. Army photo by Lesley McClintock)

    That sounds fishy: demonized trash fish finally gets some respect

    Leaves are changing, the weather is cooling and getting wetter, and Fred Meyer is stocking its shelves with Christmas decorations, which means it’s October. Instead of skipping ahead to winter holidays, let’s fall back and celebrate autumn and Halloween by highlighting a fish that has been demonized in the past, partly for its looks, and partly for our past perceptions of it as a blood-sucking, bottom-feeding trash fish*: the Pacific lamprey.

  • January

    Workers place the new Auditorium building cupola within reach of the crane that will lift it into place.

    Dam, that’s a lot of work: Bonneville buildings get face lift, cupolas

    Portland District put new roofs – one of the most vital parts of a building in the rainy northwest – on the Bonneville Project Office and Auditorium buildings, which are included in the list of National Historic Landmarks.

  • September

    Wendell “Buddy” Barnes (far right), national president of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), presents Bud Ossey (center) with a placard recognizing his 73 years of membership with SAME during a Portland District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers historical celebration at the district’s headquarters in downtown Portland in November 2019. Also pictured is Terry Hosaka, the SAME Portland Post president.

    The legacy of Bud Ossey: Centenarian, former Portland District engineer helped electrify the Northwest

    Bud Ossey is probably one of the only people alive today who was there on the cool morning of Sept. 28, 1937, when President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated a brand spanking new Bonneville Dam to the American public.At least, he’s probably one of the only people who remembers it clearly.A 17-year-old

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