| "Short courses" are typically a few days or weeks in length, and provide participants with training in one or more of the fundamental components of stream restoration (geomorphology, ecology, sediment transport/hydraulics, and policy). Some of these courses are designed as an introduction to the fundamentals of the field, while others cover advanced topics and are geared toward experienced practitioners. Short courses are normally taught by practicing professionals including engineers, university faculty, and agency experts. Please see our calendar for short courses being offered in the near future.
Note: Though NCED posts short courses, this does not imply NCED support or approval of any course.
Alabama State Water Program: Offers both beginning and advanced two-day workshops on principles of fluvial geomorphology. Participants learn about stream processes related to channel formation, field assessment, techniques to identify bankfull stage, channel evolution, and restoration options for impaired streams. Advanced workshops cover stream survey techniques such as determining cross sectional area, stream pattern, and stream profile. Workshops include field learning in how to classify streams based on the Rosgen classification system and performing stability assessments.
Association of State Wetland Managers: Wetlands 2007: Watershed Strategies to Protect and Restore Wetland Ecological and Social Services: National symposium that will look at the scientific, legal, and management tools that can be used to protect and restore headwater wetlands and streams.
BOSS International: Introduction to Streambank Investigation, Stabilization and Restoration: This three-day seminar provides a comprehensive introduction to stream investigation, stabilization, and restoration. CEU’s conferred.
Canaan Valley Institute's RiverStone Academy: Offers high quality short courses in natural stream design and its applications. The 2008 offerings include topics such as stream restoration, permitting, sediment supply, sustainable flood alleviation schemes, and geographic information systems. All short courses offer continuing education units.
Canadian Rivers Institute: A six-day professional workshop on stream restoration design and monitoring.
Center for Watershed Protection: Offers one- to three-day workshops on watershed scale planning and development rather than reach scale restoration. Also offers an online, three-credit undergraduate university course through the University of Maryland University College. See University of Maryland University College listing for further information.
Eastern Sierra Institute for Collaborative Education: Offers five-day short course on Geomorphic and Ecological Fundamentals for River and Stream Restoration.
Inter-Fluve Inc: Offers day-long and week-long courses on natural channel design.
Natural Channel Design, Inc: Offers three workshops:
1) Geomorphic Processes of Natural Channels in the Arid Southwest
2) Inventory and Assessment of Natural Channels
3) Geomorphic Stream Design and Application in the Arid Southwest
NC State University Stream Restoration Program: Offers a three-course sequence:
1. Stream Classification and Assessment
2. Stream Restoration Design Principles
3. Advanced Stream Restoration Design Principles
Penn State University
HEC-RAS for Stream Restoration and Stabilization Projects.
Also, Peggy Johnson, professor of Civil Engineering at Penn State and co-teacher of the HEC-RAS course, offers two other continuing education courses: Stream Stability at Bridges, and Stream Mechanics and Restoration.
Steady Stream Hydrology Inc: Offers courses related to assessment of rivers using natural channel concepts.
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York: Offers a summer workshop series, in conjunction with the US Army Corps of Engineers, on engineering for stream ecosystem restoration.
University of Maryland University College: The Center for Watershed Protection, through the University of Maryland University College, now offers an online, three-credit undergraduate university course, Introduction to Urban Watersheds (ENMT 360).
USACE Professional Development Support Center: Offers various courses dealing with ecological restoration, hydraulic analysis for ecosystems analysts, riparian zone ecology and restoration, and streambank erosion and protection.
US Fish & Wildlife Service – National Conservation Training Center: Offers a variety of courses, under Habitat Assessment & Restoration, including stream restoration techniques and applied fluvial geomorphology and ecology.
US Geological Survey: Offers a number of five-day workshops on basic geomorphic analysis of rivers and hydraulics. Examples include: Sediment-Data Collection Techniques, Sediment Records Computation & Interpretation, Basic Hydraulic Principles.
Utah State University: Principles and Practice of Stream Restoration: A two-part short course: Part 1 provides an overview of the scientific basis for stream restoration and is intended for those planning and implementing restoration projects. Part 2 is an overview of the application of principles of hydraulics, sediment transport and geomorphology to channel design, and is intended for practitioners directly involved in channel design.
Wildland Hydrology Inc: Offers numerous short courses specifically aimed at stream restoration. Examples include: Applied Fluvial Geomorphology; River Morphology and Applications; River Assessment and Monitoring; River Restoration and Natural Channel Design; River Restoration Design Implementation; and Fluvial Geomorphology for Engineers
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