• Paul DePalatis has joined URS Corp. as a senior planner. De Palatis was most recently the president of DePalatis Associates in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He has 26 years' experience as a professional planner with particular emphasis on the Riverside County, San Bernardino County and Coachella Valley areas of Southern California. His management responsibilities have included all aspects of project planning from conceptual design through governmental approvals.

The company welcomes back Kristin Marsh and David Shaw. Marsh is an environmental scientist and has been with URS since 2001. She recently returned to Anchorage after spending one year in the Mexico City office, where she worked as a biologist responsible for World Bank environmental compliance reviews, environmental impact analysis and feasibility studies.

Shaw returns from an eight-month deployment to Iraq, where he served with the U.S. Air Force Reserve at Kirkuk Regional Air Base. Shaw is a fulltime employee at the URS Anchorage office. His work experience includes water resource engineering, quality assurance/quality control.