Jennifer Gastrock recently joined HDR Alaska Inc. as a civil engineer. Gastrock, an engineer in training, has worked as an engineering intern for Alaska firms for two summers. Gastrock has a master's degree in environmental engineering and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Wyoming. Calex Gonzalez, Dirk Greeley and Jason Wenger, civil engineers with HDR, have received their Alaska professional engineering licenses. Gonzalez has five years experience designing transportation, water, wastewater and oilfield projects for HDR and other Alaska consulting firms. Greeley has more than five years of experience designing transportation projects, including highways, airports, bridges and trails around Anchorage and the state. Wenger has designed aviation, highway, water and solid waste projects for HDR for the last four years. Jason Kent has transferred from the firm's Boise, Idaho, office to the Anchorage office. Kent, a civil engineer with HDR, has six years experience analyzing and collecting data for river systems in Alaska and the Lower 48. Kent's specializations include stream restoration, river hydraulics, fish passage and fish habitat analysis using the instream flow incremental methodology.

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Thomas G. Krzewinski recently joined Golder Associates Inc.'s Anchorage office as a senior geo-technical engineering consul-tant. Krzewinski most recently has been a principal geotechnical engineer and manager of regional project development for American Engineering Testing Inc. in Duluth, Minn. Krzewinski, a registered professional engineer in Alaska, Washington, Minnesota and Wisconsin, is a pioneer of cold regions geotechnical engineering. Krzewinski was a full-time consultant to the major oil companies which own Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. and was instrumental in the early design and layout of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Krzewinski is the author of numerous technical papers on the application of geotechnical engineering techniques to the cold regions of the United States.

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Marcia K. Staten has been selected as the human resources director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service's Alaska Region. Staten has 18 years of experience in human resources. Staten most recently worked for the Office of Personnel Management as a senior agency officer in Washington, D.C. Staten previously held two program management positions with the Department of Treasury and one with the Department of Commerce, also in Washington, D.C. Staten also worked as chief of the administration, manpower and analysis section at the Sacramento Army Depot in California.