Watershed Restoration Academy

Healthy Streams 101

Where: The Watershed Center at 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington NJ, 08534

When: 

• Classroom instruction at The Watershed Center: May 9
• Field day: May 10 (Rain date May 13)

Cost: $598 (*Includes breakfast, lunch, field day bus, access to all materials, and up to 13 continuing education credits) Please note: The Watershed Institute's membership discounts do not apply to this event. 

Limited Capacity: 50 participants maximum

Important Info about the course:

• Download the course syllabus.
• 13 continuing education credits will be available for:
  • Professional Engineers, Professional/Registered Landscape Architects (applied for), Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioners (applied for)
• ​12 continuing education credits for Certified Floodplain Managers
• ​6 C.M. credits available for Professional Planners.

Join this brand new, two-day, in-person course to learn all about streams! Spending one day in the classroom and one day in the field, participants will dive into the basics of watershed analysis and stream processes.

This class is designed to be an entry level course for water resources professionals (i.e., engineers, scientists, landscape architects, planners, restoration practitioners) and will include an introduction to site assessments for stream restoration projects. The course will be taught by a licensed professional engineer, fluvial geomorphologist, regulatory experts, and watershed scientists.  

The field day will include a visit to a degraded stream and a healthy stream with visual and hands-on assessments. Data collected will be reviewed and analyzed at the close of the course. Attendees must commit to attending the full course to receive a course completion certificate.

For the field day, a bus will be transporting participants from The Watershed Institute campus to the stream sites and back. However, participants should still be prepared to walk 20 mins to and from the stream sites from the drop off location.

Participants must wear/bring appropriate footwear to walk through muddy areas and potentially go into a low-flow stream to collect data. Footwear could include muck boots, chest waders, or sneakers that can get wet.

If you have any questions about the event, please feel free to contact Pri Oliveira at poliveira@thewatershed.org.