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• Using the Revised Washington State Wetland Rating System (2014) in Western Washington

  • Start
    Wednesday, September 13, 2017
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    9:00 AM
  • End
    Thursday, September 14, 2017
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    4:00 PM
  • Location
    Lacey Community Center, Lacey
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    7

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  This two-day intensive workshop will provide wetland regulators and consultants with practical information and experience in using the revised rating system for wetlands in western Washington. It is specifically designed for those who will be using the rating system in the field. You will gain a working knowledge of topics such as the hydrogeomorphic classification of wetlands, how to separate wetlands into units for rating, and how to answer all the questions on the field form. The purpose of the class is to provide you with knowledge so that you can fill out the rating form on your own. You will receive a copy of the revised rating system.
  
  It is important that you already have some experience and/or education in delineating wetlands and identifying natural wetland features such as outlets, boundaries of basins, vegetation classes, and some ability to distinguish between different plant species. The morning sessions will be held inside. The afternoon sessions will be conducted in local wetlands, so dress appropriately. (12 CM AICP Credits/CEP Points)
   
  Link to rating system:
  https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/publications/SummaryPages/1406029.html
  

   

  Lunch is provided.

  
  

  Instructors:  Dr. Amy Yahnke is the senior wetland ecologist for the Shorelands and Environmental Assistance Program at the Washington State Department of Ecology. She holds a Certificate in Wetland Science and Management, BS in Environmental Horticulture, MS in Forest Resources, and PhD in Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. She has studied wetland ecology within the contexts of amphibians, invasive plants, and stormwater management. Dr. Yahnke has experience teaching a wide range of environmental topics to audiences of all ages.

  
  

  Doug Gresham is a wetland specialist in Ecology’s Northwest Region and he has 24 years of consulting experience in wetlands, fisheries, water quality monitoring, mitigation design and monitoring, construction inspection, and permitting. He provides technical assistance on wetland protection to government agencies and consultants within Snohomish, Skagit, and San Juan Counties.  He also conducts verification of consultant’s wetland delineations and ordinary high water mark determinations, and assesses the adequacy of their mitigation site designs and monitoring programs. 
  

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• How to Explain Science, Share Data, and Build Trust: Presentation Skills for Scientists and Public Officials

  • Start
    Thursday, October 12, 2017
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  • End
    Thursday, October 26, 2017
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Padilla Bay Reserve, Mt. Vernon
  • Spaces left
    15

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  Do you speak at conferences, public meetings, or other events where you need to convey a specific message? Have you ever felt like you didn’t quite hit the mark by the lackluster reactions of your audience members? Would you like to authentically engage people and help them to consider a different point of view?
  
  This two-day training class features best practices for presenting data and is especially geared towards scientists and professionals who work for local and state agencies.
   
  In this class, you will learn how to:
  

  •   Use visuals in a way that has impact;
  •   Make your message memorable;
  •   Tell a compelling story;
  •   Create rapport with your audience;
  •   Present data in an accessible way;
  •   Drill down to your most important message;
  •   Transform the way you do PowerPoint.
    

  The classes will be held two weeks apart. In between, you will develop a short presentation to present to the class on Day Two. This is an opportunity for you to immediately apply what you've learned and to receive positive coaching and feedback. (14 CM AICP Credits/ CEP Points)
  

  
  

  Lunch is provided.

  
  

  Instructors:
  Cathy Angell coordinates the Coastal Training Program and has a long history of designing and delivering presentations, as well as coaching others. She specializes in presentation skills for educators, scientists, and public officials. A former member of the National Speaker’s Association, she has presented at conferences, colleges, business organizations, and retreats. She recently received a communication award from NOAA named in her honor.
  
  Nicole Faghin is a Coastal Management Specialist at Washington Sea Grant. She is a trained land use and environmental planner and lawyer specializing in waterfront planning issues. Nicole is a frequent lecturer for the Coastal Training Program and on the CTP Advisory Group. She has also taught courses at the UW Seattle Urban Planning Program, UW Tacoma Urban Studies Program, and has been a guest lecturer at the UW School of Marine and Environmental Affairs.
  

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• Planning and Facilitating Collaborative Meetings

  • Start
    Monday, October 16, 2017
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    9:00 AM
  • End
    Tuesday, October 17, 2017
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    5:00 PM
  • Location
    Ecology Central Regional Office, Yakima (Union Gap)
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    29

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  This newly revised two-day course will increase your ability to design, conduct, and control meetings in public forums. This course is designed to increase your ability to plan and facilitate a meeting (or a series of meetings) that minimize conflict and enhance problem solving. Collaboration is often cited as a good way to address coastal resource management issues, but the collaborative process is complicated, requiring a systematic approach. This course provides the skills and tools to design and implement collaborative approaches. The skills will be useful even when attending, but not running, a collaborative meeting.

  
  

  After completing this course, you will be able to:
  

  • Determine if a collaborative process is appropriate
  • Select people with the skill sets needed to fill each meeting role
  • Learn and practice facilitation skills
  • Use appropriate process tools and techniques to address the meeting objectives
  • Manage conflict in meetings by understanding group dynamics
  • Identify disruptive behaviors in group processes and practice strategies to deal with them

  This course is taught by national trainers from NOAA's Office for Coastal Management and is a special offering in this year's training schedule. (14 CM AICP credits/ CEP points)

  
  

  Lunch is provided.

  
  

  Instructors:  Ann Weaver joined NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management in 2004 as a program and training specialist. Her responsibilities include conducting trainings on public issues and conflict management, project design, and evaluation, and coastal community planning and development.  Ms. Weaver obtained her bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Washington, and her master’s degree in biology at Florida Atlantic University. She has extensive experience as a trainer in the public and private sector.

  
  

  Gwen Shaughnessy brings a background in marine biology and non-traditional education to NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management (OCM), which she joined in 2011. In her current role as the Climate Adaptation Specialist in the OCM Engagement, Training, and Education Program, Ms. Shaughnessy is the national coordinator and lead trainer for a multi-day climate adaptation training course.  Building capacity in local communities to better understand the risks, strategies, and choices for how to adapt to the impacts of a changing climate is a focus of Ms. Shaughnessy’s work.
  

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• Using Field Indicators for Hydric Soils

  • When
    Thursday, November 02, 2017
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    9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Padilla Bay Reserve, Mt. Vernon
  • Spaces left
    0

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  This class will teach you how to effectively use the Hydric Soil Indicators in the Regional Supplements to the Corps of Engineers Wetland Delineation Manual. You will learn the basic processes that take place in saturated soil, and how to “read the story” in a soil profile. The training includes an introduction to identifying layers, distinguishing concentrations and depletions, and preparing hydric soil descriptions from soil profiles. Each student will have a chance to describe soil profiles and apply the field indicators to their notes.
  

   

  This workshop will be indoors, with an exercise in the field. Please dress appropriately. (6.5 CM AICP Credits/ CEP Points)
  

   

  Required class materials to bring:
  

  • A copy of the Munsell Soil Color Charts and one of the following publications:
  • The Corps Regional Supplement for Western Mountains, Valleys, and Coast Region, or Arid West Region. They can be found at: http://www.usace.army.mil/Portals/2/docs/civilworks/regulatory/reg_supp/west_mt_finalsupp.pdf

  • Or The Field Indicators for Hydric Soils (updated version 8.1) This can be found at: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_053171.pdf
    

  • a sharpshooter or tile spade style shovel (if you have one)
  • soil knife
  • tape measure
  • spray bottle for water (if you have one)

  Lunch is provided.
  

  
  

  Instructor: Bob Thomas is a biologist and soil scientist for the Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, Regulatory Branch Branch.  He has extensive experience in the Pacific Northwest in routine delineations, delineations in disturbed areas, and problematic hydric soils.  Mr. Thomas has been teaching hydric soil and delineation workshops to professional groups and agencies since 2000.
  

  
  

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• WAITING LIST: Using Field Indicators for Hydric Soils

  • When
    Thursday, November 02, 2017
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    9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Padilla Bay Reserve, Mt. Vernon

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  If the class is full, please sign up for this waiting list. We will contact you if a space becomes available.   

   

  (The waiting list also helps us know how much demand there is for a course.)

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• Environmental Negotiations

  • Start
    Tuesday, November 28, 2017
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    9:00 AM
  • End
    Thursday, November 30, 2017
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    5:00 PM
  • Location
    Padilla Bay Reserve, Mt. Vernon
  • Spaces left
    22

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  This extremely popular 3-day training will provide you with improved skills for effectively participating in complex environmental negotiations. It will give you a better understanding of negotiation principles, approaches, and practices which will significantly improve the outcome of your negotiations.
  
  The class presents basic negotiation concepts (e.g., Fisher and Ury’s “Getting to Yes” series) and specific environmental issue applications. The skills taught help reduce anxiety about negotiating while helping you to achieve successful outcomes.
   
  You will learn:
  

  • Simple processes to prepare for negotiations
  • Negotiation principles through simulations and role playing of increasing complexity
  • Principled (ethical) negotiation approaches to build trust and relationships
  • To recognize commonly encountered tactics and shown productive responses

  (21 CM AICP Credits/CEP Points)

  
  

  Lunch is provided.
  
  Instructor:  Jim Nelson held several responsible positions with the California Department of Fish and Game until he retired at the end of 2006. While with DFG he worked on a wide variety projects including: habitat conservation and management projects, regional conservation planning projects, public information and outreach, and large-scale construction monitoring projects. Since the early 1990's Jim has pursued the study and practice of facilitation, negotiation, and mediation for environmental problem solving.
  
  **For the past 6 years, Jim has taught this class to nearly 500 Department of Ecology employees. This training has the reputation for being the best class Ecology has ever offered.
  

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• Adaptation Planning for Coastal Communities

  • Start
    Tuesday, December 12, 2017
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    9:00 AM
  • End
    Wednesday, December 13, 2017
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    4:30 PM
  • Location
    Pierce Co. Environmental Services Building, Tacoma (University Place)
  • Spaces left
    24

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  This two-day course is being offered for the second time as part of the Coastal Training Program's "Climate Adaptation Series." This training will help you:
  

  • Apply the basic elements of an adaptation planning framework to organize future preparedness efforts;
    
  • Translate climate science into impacts on local community assets;
    
  • Practice a qualitative approach to scope and compile a vulnerability assessment, and describe how to apply the results;
    
  • Identify, compare, and prioritize locally relevant adaptation strategies and actions;
    
  • Describe implementation options for different strategies;
    
  • Recognize the importance of stakeholder involvement in adaptation planning and demonstrate the applicability of engagement processes and tools.
    

  Opportunities for local collaboration and next steps for adaptation planning and implementation are emphasized through discussion, participant activities, and incorporation of local speakers and examples.

  
  

  The course is designed for, but not limited to, program administrators, land use planners, public works staff members, floodplain managers, hazard mitigation planners, emergency managers, community groups, members of civic organizations, and coastal resource managers. While the course is beneficial for individuals, we strongly encourage multiple members of your agency to attend. This will allow your group to work through challenging issues together to explore co-benefits of adaptation strategies. Note: This class includes inland shorelines, as well. (14 CM AICP Credits/CEP Points)
  

  
  

  Lunch is provided.

  
  

  Incentives for group participation! For every two people attending from your agency, a third person may attend for free. To take advantage of this incentive, please send a message to Cathy Angell, cangell@padillabay.gov with the following information:

  1) Names of all three attendees

  2) A brief explanation of how you would work together on this issue.

  
  

  Please do not register the third person - CTP Staff will add them to the roster and waive their fee.

  
  

  
  

  Instructors:  John Rozum is a land use and geospatial training specialist for the Baldwin Group at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office for Coastal Management. John is extensively involved in numerous climate change–related trainings and projects, with a primary focus on the integration of geospatial tools and analysis into climate adaptation planning activities. He also has considerable experience helping communities integrate green infrastructure practices into their plans and regulations.  John is a certified land use planner with over 15 years’ experience working at the local level as a consultant, a planning commissioner and a university educator.  In 2013, he co-authored a publication entitled, Tools for Coastal Climate Adaptation Planning that is freely available at: www.natureserve.org/climatetoolsguide/. As of 2015, over 4,000 copies of the guide have been distributed worldwide.
  

  
  

  Gwen Shaughnessy brings a background in marine biology and non-traditional education to NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management (OCM), where she joined in February of 2011. In her current role as the Climate Adaptation Specialist in the OCM Engagement, Training, and Education Program, Ms. Shaughnessy is the national coordinator and lead trainer for a multi-day climate adaptation training course. Prior to joining NOAA, Ms. Shaughnessy worked with the Maryland Chesapeake & Coastal Program, where she helped staff the Adaptation and Response Working Group for the Maryland Commission on Climate Change and contributed to the State’s Climate Action Plan. Her responsibilities also included development of the CoastSmart Communities Initiative, a program designed to improve community resilience in the face of coastal hazards and climate change. Building capacity in local communities to better understand the risks, strategies, and choices for how to adapt to the impacts of a changing climate is a focus of Ms. Shaughnessy’s work.

  
  

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