This course addresses the growing demand for skilled and certified guardians employed within communities, industries, and non-profit organizations. This five-week (200-hour) program integrates engaging lectures, applied field training, realistic case studies, scenarios, and exercises to build practical skills, technical knowledge, and enhance analytical and critical thinking abilities.

An introduction to the programming language R. This course will provide tips and tricks to programming in R, installation of R packages and libraries, introduction to base R objects and data types, assign a value to a name, identify functions, for loops, and conditional statements, read in data from common file types (csv/xlsx), and perform...

This one-day-long, hands-on field course, designed for environmental practitioners at all levels, will enhance your biophysical field skills.

Learn to assess wetland hydrologic health, water quality, wildlife habitat and human use functions for three different types of wetlands in Southern Alberta.

Learn to assess wetland function indicators for hydrologic health, water quality, wildlife habitat and human use at three different types of wetlands in Central Alberta.

Kamloops PAC Poster, ISCBC is hosting in-person Pesticide Applicator Certification Course, running June 3rd–5th in Kamloops. This course is designed for professionals managing industrial vegetation and noxious weeds in rights-of-way, restoration areas, and other regulated landscapes. Whether you're working along transportation corridors, utility lines, railways, or disturbed sites, this certification delivers the tools and knowledge...

Williams Lake PAC Poster, ISCBC is hosting in-person Pesticide Applicator Certification Course, running June 3rd–5th in Kamloops. This course is designed for professionals managing industrial vegetation and noxious weeds in rights-of-way, restoration areas, and other regulated landscapes. Whether you're working along transportation corridors, utility lines, railways, or disturbed sites, this certification delivers the tools and...

This course is intended for students, young professionals, or plant enthusiasts with a beginner level of knowledge of plant identification looking to improve their skills and become more effective at wetland plant identification.

This course is a deep dive into the biology and taxonomy of the diverse and amazing native bees of BC. We will spend three days in the lab at Okanagan College Penticton with Lincoln Best and Bonnie Zand looking at bee specimens under the microscope. You will learn to ID bumble bees to the species...

By registering for the Electrofishing Certification Mayo Field Session, you will also be registered in the Electrofishing Certification Self-Paced Training. Please note that the online Self-Paced Training must be completed before attending the Field Session. If the Electrofishing Certification Self-Paced Training is not completed at least 5 days prior to the Field Session, you will...

By registering for the Electrofishing Certification Cranbrook Field Session, you will also be registered in the Electrofishing Certification Self-Paced Training. Please note that the online Self-Paced Training must be completed before attending the Field Session. If the Electrofishing Certification Self-Paced Training is not completed at least 5 days prior to the Field Session, you will...

This course is an intensive, ‘hands-on’, online, and field-based two-day review of standard North American fish and fish habitat assessment and evaluation methods. In this course, participants will learn first-hand how to conduct measurements, assessments and evaluations of stream morphology, fish habitat features, substrate, pebble counts, stream impacts and habitat limiting factors.