Corporate Training By Zack Academy - Pacific Salmonids Spawning Habitat Restoration

Why Should You Take This Pacific Salmonids Spawning Habitat Restoration Course?

Developed for practitioners and agency personnel involved with field data collection, detailed design and/or review of river restoration projects, this course provides general training in design, implementation and monitoring of in-stream habitat improvement projects in regulated streams and rivers, with an emphasis on the issues surrounding Pacific salmonid spawning rehabilitation and access to spawning areas. This course will cover subjects from monitoring to planning including fish passage assessment and design techniques.

Attendees will learn techniques for assessing habitat and collecting and analyzing field data. They will also discover how to integrate physical, biological and aesthetic objectives into habitat improvement design; characterize and estimate sediment transport and budgets for enhancement sites; and to design effective monitoring programs. Material selection, project coordination, and data and project presentation will be covered. Examples from both successful and failed restoration projects will be discussed. There will also be a visit to an ongoing enhancement project where techniques will be demonstrated.

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is designed for practitioners and agency personnel involved with field data collection, detailed design and/or review of river restoration projects.

Prerequisites: Suggested - "The Ecology of Pacific Salmonids"

Topics and Techniques to be Covered Include:

• Assessing habitat and collecting and analyzing field data
• Integrating physical, biological and aesthetic objectives into habitat improvement design
• Characterizing and estimating sediment transport and sediment budgets for enhancement sites
• Designing effective monitoring programs
• Choosing appropriate fish habitat improvement designs
• Channel and instream structure design
• Sediment transport
• Understanding enhancement limitations
• Selecting equipment and material
• Fish passage assessment and design techniques
• Data and project presentation

Meet the Instructor:

Rocko A. Brown, M.S., is an engineering geomorphologist/hydrologist with over 10 years of experience. He has conducted a broad range of hydrologic, hydraulic, and geomorphic analyses for environmental impact studies, aquatic habitat restoration projects, channel bank stabilization, watershed restoration plans and hydraulic floodplain mapping. He has extensive experience in hydraulic and sediment transport modeling and design for fish passage improvements, channel design, and bank stabilization.

Important: 

• Please bring a pen or pencil and notepad
• Drinks and snacks will be provided throughout the day
• Please wait to receive a course confirmation email (roughly one month prior to the class) before making any travel arrangements