NRTG’s Planning and Designing Fish Habitat Assessments MicroCourse is a four-hour training designed for fisheries professionals with prior experience in standard stream habitat assessment methods. It focuses on selecting appropriate techniques and integrating data across scales to efficiently describe site conditions.

The Natural Resources Extension Program at VIU offers three levels of Fish Health training. Level 1 introduces key principles of fish health management for aquaculture and aquarium species. Subsequent levels build on this foundation, with Level 3 focusing on applied techniques for detecting and diagnosing bacterial pathogens. Each level is delivered as a separate five-day...

The Canadian Water Resources Association will host a webinar on September 17, 2025, in collaboration with Public Safety Canada. The session will focus on the Federally Identified Flood Risk Areas initiative.

Wetland Assessment is a two-day online course with a student-led field component that introduces the process of characterizing, classifying, and delineating wetlands in Canada and the northern United States.

The 2-day online BC CESCL course is a live, interactive introduction to erosion and sediment control (ESC) site management. It is intended for site personnel responsible for managing and addressing ESC concerns as part of their daily work. The course provides detailed foundational content and is considered an introductory-level training.

The BC-CESCL (British Columbia Certified Erosion and Sediment Control Lead) recertification course is intended for ESC professionals whose CESCL designation has expired or will expire within the next 6 to 12 months. This one-day course and exam reviews key topics from the original two-day CESCL course, including erosion and sedimentation processes, regulatory requirements, erosion and...

Specifiers and users of erosion and sediment control (ESC) products may not always be familiar with which products are best suited to address site-specific erosion challenges. This presentation will focus on available tools—ESC products—that can be used to respond to varying site conditions. The session will cover the differences between sediment control and erosion control,...

The two-day, fully online Avian Nest Sweeps and Monitoring Methods training program provides information on conducting nest sweeps for breeding birds. Participants will be introduced to regulatory and environmental considerations relevant to nest surveys and will gain insight into the methods commonly used to plan and carry out these activities.

Emphasizing hands-on learning, you’ll navigate timing considerations for various species and explore terrestrial and aquatic isolation methods. By course end, you’ll master the art of assessing, executing, and refining wildlife mitigation to uphold environmental regulations and foster sustainable construction practices.

In this interactive four-hour MicroCourse, you’ll learn practical strategies to simplify scientific concepts, craft compelling narratives, and navigate common communication challenges with confidence.

Species at Risk is an applied, two-day, online with a student led field component course focusing on how to determine which species at risk are known to occur in a particular area, how to identify potential habitat opportunities, and how to assign a relative potential for that species to be present.

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.