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Continuing Education for Natural Resource Professionals


Workshop Calendar

Program Leadership

February 26 - March 1, 2013
Leadership and Communications: Advanced (LAC/A)
McMullin Training and Consulting

April 2-11, 2013
Leadership and Communications (LAC)
McMullin Training and Consultating

CANCELLED 2013
Natural Resource Policy, Values, and Economics (NRPVE)
Portland State University (PSU) - with University of Georgia (UG-Athens) & Colorado State University (CSU)

February 25 - March 1, 2013; Request in AgLearn to receive any updates
Program Management (PMB)
Utah State University
Program Management - Round II (PMBII)
Utah State University

Technical Leadership

Multi-disciplinary

April 16 - 18, 2013 - Webinar
Plain & Simple! Document Writing (PSDW)
Dr. Jud Monroe, Environmental Planning & Documentation LLC


CANCELLED - November 2012; Request in AgLearn for FY13
Policy and Legal Aspects of Endangered Species Management (PLA-I) - Introduction
Lewis and Clark College


April 29 - May 3, 2013
Water Resource Management for Line Officers
USDA Forest Service - Stream Systems Technology Center


CANCELLED - APRIL 2013; Request in AgLearn for FY14
Foundations of Ecological Monitoring in a Management Context (FEMMC)
Sound Science LLCC


May 6 - 9, 2013
Endangered Species Act for Line Officers (ESAL)
Lewis and Clark College


CANCELLED - MAY 2013; Request in AgLearn for FY14
Landscape Ecology (LE)
Landeco Consulting


Request in AgLearn for FY14
Policy and Legal Aspects of Endangered Species Management (PLA/A) - Advanced
Lewis and Clark College


TBD - 2013 ... NEW
R - Data Analysis (RDA)
USFS Fish & Aquatic Ecology Unit/Utah State University - Distance Learning delivery

Terrestrial

August 5 - 9, 2013
Innovative Approaches to Wildlife and Highway Interactions (IAWHI)
USDA Forest Service


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.

2014; Request in AgLearn to receive updates on possible single-topic webinars
Wildlife Conservation and Management (WCM)
Northern Arizona University

Request in AgLearn - ON DEMAND
Asking & Answering the Right Monitoring Questions (AARMQ)
Sound Science, LLC

Request in AgLearn - ON DEMAND
Planning for Environmentally-Sensitive Highway Projects (EcoHWY)
USDA Forest Service and USDI Fish & Wildlife Service/NCTC

Aquatic/Watershed

CANCELLED - May 2013; Register in AgLearn for FY13 -- ALTERNATE YEARS FROM NR16
Stream and Watershed Restoration Design and Implementation (NR20)
USDA Forest Service - PNW Aquatic Training Program


June 17, 2013
Snorkel & Dive Safety/Aquatic Biota Invasives (NR-Snork)
USDA Forest Service - PNW Aquatic Training Program


June 18-21, 2013
Stream Habitat Inventory Training - includes Safety (NR09)
USDA Forest Service - PNW Aquatic Training Program


June 9 - 13, 2014; Register in AgLearn for FY14 -- ALTERNATE YEARS FROM NR20
Aquatic Ecosystem Monitoring and Evaluation - Western (NR16)
USDA Forest Service - PNW Aquatic Training Program


TBD - 2013
Request in AgLearn and Coordinate with your Regional Fish/Hydrology/Engineers staff
Designing for Aquatic Organism Passage at Road-Stream Crossings (AOP)
USDA Forest Service - Stream Systems Technology Center with Regions


Request in AgLearn - ON DEMAND
Aquatic Monitoring - Eastern (AM)
USDA Forest Service - Fish & Aquatic Ecology Unit: On Demand. Call vendor to schedule a workshop where you want it when you want it. Eastern version of NR16.


Request in AgLearn - ON DEMAND
Advanced Concepts in Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis (ACAEA)
USDA Forest Service - Fish & Aquatic Ecology Unit: Distance Learning delivery

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 ExcelTM - Objectives: design Pivot Tables; use ANOVA and Regression Analysis; interpret data.

Dr. Steve McMullin (McMulling Training and Consulting; affiliated with Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University) and other instructors from the popular Leadership and Communications (LAC) 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. This includes Myers-Briggs psychological type as a basic building block for interpersonal communication and team building. Other workshops can include leadership and management, conflict resolution, working effectively with the media, and effective writing and speaking for natural resource professionals. The Advanced LAC workshop is modified to incorporate follow-up coaching. This will allow the vendor to work with each participant to ensure that he/she gets the most out of the feedback from the instruments and incorporates that feedback into a personal development plan. It is important for participants in this workshop to come into it with a working knowledge of Myers-Briggs (it was designed as a follow-up to the regular LAC workshop).

The workshops on demand are also relatively new. As budgets tightened and travel becomes more restricted, Dr. McMullin is offering more training on districts and forests. The workshops on demand can be tailored to your needs and address any topic covered in the 2-week LAC workshop. To be most cost-effective, the workshops usually are 1.5 to 2 days long. Myers-Briggs is a popular topic of the workshops thus far, usually combined with team building or conflict resolution/dealing with difficult people. Dr. McMullin has done these workshops for Forest Leadership Teams, Districts, and for several combined Districts. This approach is very cost-effective, because Dr. McMullin can provide 2 days of high-quality training to 40 or more people for about the same cost as sending 4 people to the LAC workshop in a different location. Contact the vendor for examples, evaluations and references.

Contact: Dr. Steve McMullin, 540-818-1670, smcmulli@verizon.net
www.mcmullintraining.com

Sandra Jacobson and Terry Brennan offer "Planning for Environmentally-Sensitive Highway Projects.
Objective: streamline and improve delivery of an environmentally-sensitive highway project using the context-sensitive planning approach in an interdisciplinary and interagency planning team. Instructors are an interdisciplinary team (transportation ecology specialists: wildlife biologists, engineers, hydrologists, soil scientists, botanists, and recreation planners). Target audience: interagency, interdisciplinary team and line officers working together on a multi-year project including highway project planning. Topics include agency differences in NEPA, time lines, funding mechanisms and policy. Course structure might allow some disciplines to participate for less than the entire week.

Current options include:

“REQUEST” in AgLearn.

Formerly Hosted Workshops

If demand increases, we will seek out vendors offering these types of training. Request in AgLearn or with WFW Continuing Education Program Leader.

Managing Forested Ecosystems (MFE)
Alternative - Landscape Ecology workshop

Watershed Restoration (WR)

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

 





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Forest Service Continuing Education for Natural Resource Professionals
Author: Shelly Witt, National Continuing Education Coordinator,
WFW staff
Email: switt01@fs.fed.us
Phone: 435-881-4203
Publish_date:2/24/98
Expires: none

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 Last Modified: April 2013