Dr. Michael Passmore, deputy director of Environmental Laboratory at the Engineer Research and Development Center, will retire in June.

Passmore has nearly 30 years of experience with the Corps, with 15 spent at ERDC. He began his career as a wildlife biologist in the Walla Walla, Wash., District, where he became chief of the Environmental Resources Branch. From 1991 to 1992, worked on a developmental assignment at ERDC’s Environmental Lab. In 1996, he became the chief of the Ecological Resource Branch in the Corps’ Vicksburg District. In 2005, he was named acting deputy director of the Environmental Lab. He became permanent deputy director in 2007.

Throughout his career, Passmore had worked with The Wildlife Society and the National Military Fish and Wildlife Association. He has instructed the Army Leadership Education and Development Course.

Passmore has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Oregon State University, and a doctorate from Texas A&M. He and his wife, Elise, have three children, four grandchildren and one on the way.