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It is with extreme sadness we share the news that GeoEngineers Principal Scientist Lisa Berntsen died recently while trekking at high altitude in Nepal. She was 49 years old. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. on November 22, 2014 at Fox Alliance Church (655 6th Ave. FI, Fox Island, WA 98333). Lisa started her […]

Senior Geologist Garrett Leque, LG of our Tacoma office received Downtown On the Go’s 2014 Advocacy Award. The annual award recognizes a business or individual who made a difference for downtown Tacoma through transportation advocacy at the local, state or federal level. “Garrett has been a key organizer for our Bike Committee. He has taken […]

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) recently awarded GeoEngineers Board Member William A. (Bill) Wallace, ENV SP, M.ASCE the President’s Medal at its 2014 Global Engineering Conference in Panama City, Panama. The award is given out annually at the discretion of ASCE’s president to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of eminent engineers to the […]

Researching the ownership, acreage and use of public lands in Washington state just got easier thanks to a new online, interactive map of natural resource and recreation lands. GeoEngineers’ technology-development team built the map for the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) after the state Legislature tasked the agency in 2013 to provide an […]

Engineering News Record (ENR) recently published their annual list of the top 500 design firms in the country by revenue. GeoEngineers’ ranking at 197 represents a significant jump from last year when we were ranked 220. The list includes a wide variety of firms that offer design services, including architectural and civil engineering firms. Geoprofessional […]

Members of GeoEngineers’ Spokane office recently worked with owner Avista Utilities to renovate Huntington Park, located between City Hall Plaza and the Spokane River. The site is located below the Spokane Falls Gondola and between a number of existing structures, so GeoEngineers performed subsurface explorations and provided geotechnical engineering recommendations that supported the park improvements […]

Boaters who want more information about where to launch their boats or tie up for a weekend on the water can do so now through Washington Water Cruiser, a new app launched by the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office(RCO). The free app is available for both Apple and Android mobile devices, and has a […]

GeoEngineers’ technology team created an interactive whale-tracking map of the waters surrounding Hawaii that has received national attention this past week, including being named WIRED magazine’s “Science Graphic of the Week.” Other publications such as Huffington Post, Gizmodo, Fast Company, and local Hawaiian news channel KITV have done stories about the map, calling it “hypnotically beautiful.” […]

The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) awarded GeoEngineers and our project partner, KPFF Consulting Engineers, a national Grand Award for engineering excellence for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation headquarters project in Seattle, WA. The project received one of just eight grand awards out of 143 entries representing some of the largest and most […]

GeoEngineers is co-sponsoring the Fifth Annual International Conference for Environmental Data Management (ICDEM) near Portland, OR, on May 13-14. The two-day conference provides environmental data management professionals with an opportunity to share ideas, tools and custom applications, brainstorm and collaborate on data workflow and present data management success stories. The conference was founded in 2010 […]