Environmental Field Skills Certificate Program graduates are qualified environmental monitors. Graduates of this program can assist professional biologists, engineers, hydrologists, and other environmental professionals conducting environmental monitoring and assessments.
Upon successful completion, Environmental Field Skills Certificate Program participants will be qualified and able to:
- Observe, record and report environmental field data
- Conduct standard environmental assessments and inventories for: air, water, plants and trees, wildlife, fish and soil
- Conduct backpack electrofishing surveys as certified technicians (note: To be eligible for certification, registrants must complete the field component in one of our scheduled EF field sessions.)
- Operate, calibrate and maintain a wide variety of environmental field equipment and ‘tools’
- Identify and classify types of vegetation, wildlife, fish and soils
- Conduct water quality and field hydrology procedures
- Identify and interpret environmental field conditions
- Identify site impact, and develop and implement site rehabilitation procedures
- Conduct erosion and sediment control measures
- Isolate an instream construction project and conduct a fish salvage