Course Catalog

This 2-day course provides participants first with a broad overview of Site Restoration/Mitigation, and then expands to an examination of specific steps used for innovative restoration and mitigation planning and implementation, applicable to western North America.

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Emphasis will be placed on fish behavior and its role in site selection and other fishway features. In addition, this course will cover the need for fishways, the obstacles posing an impediment to their construction, and the different types of "exclusion barriers" (barriers designed for management purposes) that are currently being used. Different types of fish ladders, lifts, and locks will be described with discussion of features and design criteria. Participants will benefit from a fishway design exercise, paired with a discussion of common operation and maintenance challenges.

This two-day course includes an overview of key chemistry concepts associated with environmental contamination and provides a foundation for understanding contaminant fate and transport.

Four-hour collaborative negotiation course for professionals who negotiate as a vested-interest participant, from sizing up a negotiation to a durable agreement.

Using Conflict Resolution Skills to get to Collaborative Problem-Solving

Four-hour conflict resolution course: diagnose disputes, map a path to resolution and practice the communication skills that support durable agreements.

Four-hour course for leaders of scientific and technical panels: four predictable impediments that stall recommendations, and strategies for each.

Creating and delivering prepared and unprepared material that informs and convinces using proven techniques used by professional speakers

Building Consensus Among Diverse Groups to Create Actionable Results

Four-hour course on meetings as decision-making events: design by objective, the core meeting types, engaging participants and dealing with difficult behavior.

Four-hour course on leading online meetings: planning, engaging participants, using the right tools and reaching a firm decision.

Communicating and Presenting Scientific Information That Engages a Wide Variety of Audiences

Four-hour persuasive presenting course: audience analysis for skepticism and resistance, models for planning remarks, and techniques for answering tough questions.

Four-hour course on the seven core project-management tasks: scope, stakeholders, roles, tasks and deadlines, tracking, risk and communication.

Learn how to effectively communicate environmental risk-related issues to a broad range of audiences.

Learn how to effectively communicate environmental risk-related issues to a broad range of audiences.

Advanced communication skills for prepared and impromptu speaking and presentations

Challenge your analysis before someone else does. Practice testing difficult NEPA reasoning against evidence, assumptions and competing interpretations with AI assistance.

Screen a proposal. Show your work. Practice using agency sources to screen proposals and document categorical exclusion decisions with AI assistance.

Preparing, Reviewing, Challenging, and Defending Documents Prepared Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)

Two-day hands-on NEPA course teaching today's reality, not textbooks. You'll write real documents in small groups, build evaluation rubrics, and learn how NEPA works post-CEQ strike-down and post-2025 Supreme Court ruling. Covers what agencies are actually doing now—and how to work within your own process. Works as a refresher for experienced professionals or an accessible entry point for newcomers.

A two-day, hands-on document clinic for people who write, review, or manage NEPA documents. Practice reviewing real-world-style drafts, returning comments authors can act on, checking long documents for consistency, managing consultant drafts, and building a defensible project record, with AI tools used for bounded, verified support.

A fast-paced 2-day training course that answers the question, “Is this thing any good?”

This course provides an overview of California's stormwater regulations, including the General Industrial Stormwater Permit, the General Construction Stormwater Permit, Phase I and II municipal permitting, and programs addressing non-point source pollution.

Understanding the Risks and Rewards

Understanding the Approach and Strategy in Performing ERA's

This training course presents principles and practical skills for conducting subsurface Environmental Assessments, with a focus on soil and groundwater contamination (and separate phase contaminants, if suspected or present).

Online self-paced recertification for CESCL. Valid for Washington and Oregon. Complete within 6 months of card expiration.

A 2-day certification course providing a 3-year Construction Stormwater Certification valid in Washington (CESCL) and Oregon (1200C). Combines classroom instruction with hands-on field exercises.

CESCL Recertification Live Class

Hands-on practice using AI on everyday professional work, with your judgment in charge.

The basics of what AI is and how it works.

Hands-on practice redesigning work, defending your analysis, and planning AI in stages.

Hands-on practice designing, building and testing one supervised AI agent.

Hands-on practice running AI workers as ongoing roles, with a named person in charge.

Learn to use more of the power of Excel to manage, analyze, and visualize your data (Parts 1 and 2)

Become an educated consumer of lab data. This course provides environmental professionals with an understanding of generating defensible environmental analytical data from the planning stage, through the field and laboratory phase, to final reporting. The course covers proper project planning considerations (What is a “representative” sample?), choosing the right analytical methods, and hands-on sampling exercises collecting water and soil samples. Students will also learn methods and how to operate some common field screening instruments.

Improving Environmental Data Usability through Systematic Project Planning and Data Analysis

Hands-on practice with clear prompts, the right context, and methods you can reuse.

What do you type in the chat box? Learn to write clear prompts and give AI the right context.

Doing it Quickly, Appropriately, Proficiently, and Professionally

HAZWOPER 8 Hour Refresher - Municipal & Public Works Applications