Continuing Education for Natural Resource Professionals - WFW

Program Leadership

Cancelled for 2010; Request in AgLearn for 2011
Leadership and Communications: Advanced (LAC/A)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

March 8 - 11, 2010
Program Management (PMB)
Utah State University
Program Management - Round II (PMBII)
Utah State University

March 16 - 25, 2010
Leadership and Communications (LAC)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

May 3 - 7, 2010
Natural Resource Policy, Values, and Economics (RPVE)
University of Georgia - Athens, Georgia

Technical Leadership

Multi-disciplinary

February 22 - 26, 2010
Water Resource Management for Line Officers
USDA Forest Service

November 2 - 5, 2009 (FY2010)
2010 Spring offering is being blended with ESAL (Register for ESAL)
Policy and Legal Aspects of Endangered Species Management (PLA-I) - Introduction
Lewis and Clark College

March 15 - 26, 2010
Landscape Ecology (LE)
University of Montana/University of Massachusetts

May 4 - 7, 2009
Endangered Species Act for Line Officers + Policy and Legal Aspects of Endangered Species Management (ESAL+PLA)
Lewis and Clark College

July 7 - 9, 2010
Innovative Approaches to Wildlife and Highway Interactions (IAWHI)
USDA Forest Service and USDI Fish & Wildlife Service/NCTC; register at DOI LEARN

Being transformed into 'distance learning' delivery - intend to offer Spring 2010
Request on AgLearn
Plain & Simple! Document Writing (PSDW)
Dr. Jud Monroe, Environmental Planning & Documentation LLC

Request on AgLearn or email National Program Leader
Managing Forested Ecosystems (MFE)

Not Offered for FY2010
Policy and Legal Aspects of Endangered Species Management (PLA-A) - Advanced
Lewis and Clark College

Cancelled for 2010
Planning for Environmentally-Sensitive Highway Projects (EcoHWY)
USDA Forest Service and USDI Fish & Wildlife Service/NCTC

TBA 2010
Sale Area Layout and Harvesting Institute (SALHI)
USDA Forest Service

TBA 2010
Danger Tree (DT)
USDA Forest Service

Terrestrial

January 20 - 22, 2010
Asking & Answering the Right Monitoring Questions (AARMQ)
Sound Science, LLC

GIS and Remote Sensing (GIS)
There are a number of vendor options available for this type of training. Check the GIS web site for the options we know about.

Request in AgLearn
Vegetation Monitoring in a Management Context (VM)
Sound Science, LLC

Winter 2010
Vegetation Monitoring in a Management Context (VM)
The Nature Conservancy/University of Florida

Not being hosted in 2010
Request in AgLearn for 2011:
Starts online January 24 to April 10, 2011 and then onsite April 11 - 15, 2011
Wildlife Conservation and Management (WCM)
Northern Arizona University

Aquatic

April 26 - 30, 2010
Designing for Aquatic Organism Passage at Road-Stream Crossings (AOP)
USDA Forest Service - Stream Systems Technology Center with Regions

May 10, 2010 - Weekly Conference Call/Video Conference over multiple months
Advanced Concepts in Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis (ACAEA)
Utah State University/USDA Forest Service - Distance Learning delivery

May 17 - 21, 2010
Stream and Watershed Restoration Design and Implementation (NR20)
USDA Forest Service - PNW Aquatic Training Program

June 7 - 10, 2010
Aquatic Ecosystem Monitoring and Evaluation - Western (NR16)
USDA Forest Service - PNW Aquatic Training Program

Any Time of Year
Request in AgLearn
Aquatic Monitoring - Eastern (AM)
Utah State University (host): On Demand. Call vendor to schedule a workshop where you want it when you want it. Eastern version of NR16.

Request
Watershed Restoration (WR)

Watershed

Not Offered for FY2010
Predicting Bedload Transport in Gravel-bed Streams: Computation and Field Technique (Bedload)
USDA Forest Service, University of Colorado, Johns Hopkins University, Colorado State University

Workshops on Demand

Dr. Brett Roper (USDA Forest Service and Utah State University Department of Aquatic, Watershed and Earth Resources) offers assorted aquatic workshop topics "on demand". He will work with you on hosting aquatic workshops in your area. Generally there is a 10 to 15 participant minimum. Invite natural resource professionals from your area other federal agencies, tribal organizations, state, city, private, international and companies. You work with Brett to develop a curriculum to best meet your needs.

Contact: Dr. Brett Roper, 435-755-3566 or broper@fs.fed.us

Current options include:

Basin Surveys & Applications (including inventories)
Aquatic Monitoring - Eastern
Sampling Amphibians - Objective: explain and demonstrate sampling methods for a variety of amphibians and associated habitats.
Data Analysis using Excel^TM - Objectives: design Pivot Tables; use ANOVA and Regression Analysis; interpret data.
Technical & Scientific Writing - Objectives: analyze data; write professional quality technical documents and scientific articles to be disseminated broadly to the public.

Dr. Steve McMullin (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University) and other instructors from the popular Leadership and Communications workshop will bring any piece of LAC to your district or forest. This is a cost-effective way to provide high-quality training to your employees. The most popular modules have been Myers-Briggs psychological type as a basic building block for interpersonal communication and team building. Other workshops that have been offered or that can be offered include leadership and management, conflict resolution, working effectively with the media, and effective writing and speaking for natural resource professionals.

Contact: Dr. Steve McMullin, 540-231-8847 or smcmulli@vt.edu