Workshops and Trainings
Upcoming Workshops and Trainings
Join us to discover the benefits of landscaping with native plants and how to select the most suitable species for residential landscapes.
- Increase your knowledge of native plants and their use around your home.
- Learn about your landscape’s role in supporting pollinators, birds, and other wildlife.
- Learn about site consideration and the “no rules” garden.
- Learn to identify and control invasive non-native plants.
- Visit a local garden made up almost exclusively of native species.
This workshop is designed for landscapers, nursery managers and employees, Master Gardeners, homeowners, and others interested in the advantages of deviating from conventional landscaping practices.
Cost: FREE
Lunch Included
Please use the following link to register:
Join us to learn about the identification, ecology, control, and prevention of the most prevalent and destructive invasive plants on the Central Gulf Coast.
- Increase your knowledge of invasive plants and their characteristics.
- Learn about ecological disturbance and the propagation of invasive species.
- Learn about invasive species prevention and treatments.
- Learn to identify and control invasive non-native plants through mechanical and chemical methods.
- Learn about residential and commercial herbicide practices.
- Visit several sites to see invasive species management in action.
- Licensed Applicators CEUs – Category V – Aquatic pest control and Category VI-Right of way pest control
- Forestry 6.5 CFEs – Category 1
This workshop is designed for natural resource management professionals, but is also suitable for homeowners, garden clubs, landscapers, nurserymen/growers, government employees, and Master Gardeners.
Cost: $25
Lunch Included
Please use the following link to register:
Join us for a two-day workshop on Wetland Rapid Assessment Procedure (WRAP).
- Increase your knowledge of WRAP.
- Learn about functional variables, scoring procedures, and field procedures.
- Learn how Mobile District Corps of Engineers use WRAP and other uses.
- Learn WRAP office procedures.
- Visit several sites to use WRAP in the field.
This workshop is designed for consultants and government employees who work within the wetland regulatory realm, natural resource management professionals, and others in need of assessing wetland functionality.
Cost: $50
Lunch Included both Days
Please use the following link to register:
Past Workshops and Trainings
The objectives of this course are learning to complete a FEMA EC in order to satisfy the requirements of any program, understand the data needs for each individual EC section, understand how the EC is sued by CRS, Change attendee’s approach to ECs from “minimum needs” to “best practices” and how to avoid common mistakes that can invalidate the EC for certain programs. This day long course will include: 1) detailed training on completing a FEMA Elevation Certificate (EC) accurately and in its entirety, allowing full compliance with any program that requires submission of an EC. 2) Review the NEW EC and provide guidance on implantation and use, 3) Review how Risk Rating 2.0 insurance requirements affect the EC, 4) Cover EC requirements for surveying, foundation flood openings, and certification, 5) Review the CRS requirements for an EC and those portions that can differ from other programs, 6) Discuss common errors and omissions, review of the various EC building diagrams, and real world examples. Lunch will be provided!
This course is free but, registration is required. Please follow the link for course details and to register: https://GBNERR_ElCert.eventbrite.com
Download reference materials and review before class.
Wet pine savannas are home to a tremendous amount of plant biodiversity, mostof which is driven by the fire ecology that maintains the savanna’s open canopy. Join the Grand Bay NERR botanists, Andrew Heaton and Emmett Carstens in learning to identify the graminoids (grasses, sedges, and rushes) found at the Reserve this spring! There will be classroom instruction and a field component to the workshop. Lunch will be provided. Space is limited so register today!! Register at: https://gbnerr_gramid.eventbrite.com/
This course provides comprehensive training in the three-parameter approach to identifying and delineating wetlands. Emphasis is placed on learning to recognize indicators of wetland vegetation, hydric soils, and wetland hydrology. Participants will go into the field and apply methods learned in a variety of area wetlands and gain knowledge and skills to meet wetland conservation goals or regulatory needs. To register follow the link: https://GCNP_WetlandID.eventbrite.com Coastal Training
Improve social science skills through instruction in understanding stakeholders, focus groups, writing survey questions, and analyzing data. To learn more and to register go to https://SSBasicsNERR.eventbrite.com
This course provides comprehensive training in the three-parameter approach to identifying and delineating wetlands. Emphases is placed on learning to recognize indicators of wetland vegetation, hydric soils, and wetland hydrology. Participants will go into the field and apply methods learned in a variety of area wetlands and gain knowledge and skills to meet wetland conservation goals or regulatory needs. Coastal Training
Learn how to respond to medical emergencies, treat injuries and illnesses, by improvising solutions with the items you have available in your surroundings. Technical Skills Training
Learn how to respond to medical emergencies, treat injuries and illnesses, by improvising solutions with the items you have available in your surroundings. Technical Skills Training
Round-robin sharing associated with the “R” workshops, breakout rooms based on data analyses and types of data. These technical assistance sessions are designed to encourage skill building and peer-to-peer learning with the statistical software “R.” Technical Skills Training
A workshop for land managers and resource managers on invasive species found on the Gulf Coast. Coastal Training
Round-robin sharing associated with the “R” workshops, breakout rooms based on data analyses and types of data. These technical assistance sessions are designed to encourage skill building and peer-to-peer learning with the statistical software “R.” Technical Skills Training
Round-robin sharing associated with the “R” workshops, breakout rooms based on data analyses and types of data. These technical assistance sessions are designed to encourage skill building and peer-to-peer learning with the statistical software “R.” Technical Skills Training
Round-robin sharing associated with the “R” workshops, breakout rooms based on data analyses and types of data. These technical assistance sessions are designed to encourage skill building and peer-to-peer learning with the statistical software “R.” Technical Skills Training
This course provides comprehensive training in the three-parameter approach to identifying and delineating wetlands. Emphasis is placed on learning to recognize indicators of wetland vegetation, hydric soils, and wetland hydrology. Participants will go into the field and apply methods learned in a variety of area wetlands and gain knowledge and skills to meet wetland conservation goals or regulatory needs. Coastal Training
Workshop for identifying common turtles in Southeast United States. Coastal Training
Round-robin sharing associated with the “R” workshops, breakout rooms based on data analyses and types of data. These technical assistance sessions are designed to encourage skill building and peer-to-peer learning with the statistical software “R.” Technical Skills Training
Round-robin sharing associated with the “R” workshops, breakout rooms based on data analyses and types of data. These technical assistance sessions are designed to encourage skill building and peer-to-peer learning with the statistical software “R.” Technical Skills Training
This the second workshop in a yearlong series that includes three formal workshops with optional monthly sharing sessions. Participants will learn to streamline daily tasks, work with data in a reproducible framework, make publication ready graphs, write your own functions, and generate and decipher basic statistical outputs. Technical Skills Training
“Science and So Much More: Putting science into practice through the Coastal Training Program” NOAA’s Science Seminar Series featuring the Gulf Coastal Training Programs. This session is an overview of the Coastal Training Programs of the gulf coast reserves with a special highlight on the work Mike Shelton has been doing at the Weeks Bay NERR. Coastal Training
Technical follow-up” allows participants to discuss successes and roadblocks and find technical assistance to these issues.
This virtual meeting helped participants gain a better understanding of the changes to how the flood risk to properties is determined. The Region IV Director of the ASFPM presented background and answered questions.
This course informed Real Estate agents about “beyond-code” FORTIFIED construction and the benefits it offers their clients. This two-hour course provided agents with the knowledge needed as demand for FORTIFIED homes grows in coastal and inland markets.
Participants gain knowledge and skills for making meetings more effective, productive, and efficient. The Basic facilitation skills including techniques for dealing with disruptive behaviors were also presented.
Participants gain knowledge and skills for making meetings more effective, productive, and efficient. The Basic facilitation skills including techniques for dealing with disruptive behaviors were also presented.
Technical follow-up” allows participants to discuss successes and roadblocks and find technical assistance to these issues.
This yearlong series includes three workshops with monthly sharing sessions for those who want to use R in their daily workflow. This series will help users streamline daily tasks, work with data in a reproducible framework, make publication ready graphs, write their own functions, and generate and decipher basic statistical outputs.
During this event researchers presented an overview of the work that they have been doing at the Grand Bay NERR or surrounding area. They participated in a roundtable for discussion and to answer questions. The goal was to share and learn about current research at Grand Bay, provided an opportunity to network and build new collaborations and identify future needs and direction of Grand Bay research.
Meet the Coordinator
She oversees the Grand Bay NERR's training programs.
