January Successful Outreach Strategies Online Offering
Successful Outreach Strategies will be offering an online training entitled “Designing Effective Presentations.” The training will focus on PowerPoint design and engaging the attendees to support retention of the material. The training will be offered Tuesday, Jan. 21 from 9:30-11 a.m. and Wednesday, Jan. 29 from 9-10:30 a.m. Registration is required and closes Jan. 8 at 3:30 p.m. To register click here and scroll to the bottom of the page.
Basic Hydrology Training
Basic Hydrology training is being offered as an online webinar on Jan. 13 and Jan. 15 from 1-3 p.m. on both days. Attendees should attend both sessions to complete the course. This course is held a couple of times a year, most recently it was given virtually in January 2024 and in person in August 2024. This will be a repeat of both those courses.
This training will cover the basic concept of determining hydrology for common conservation practices. We will review concepts such as runoff, curve numbers, peak discharges, and hydrographs. Students will learn about reading contour maps and delineating watersheds through example problems. By the end of the two sessions students should be able to delineate a watershed as well as be able to obtain the values needed to determine a peak discharge from the delineated watershed using EFH2.
There is a prerequisite video as well as practice homework to be completed between the two sessions. For additional information and a link to register, please visit the Basic Hydrology page.
Soil Mechanics (SM-1) Training
The TTCP is hosting Soil Mechanics (SM-1) training in two locations this February, led by NRCS geologist Miranda Berge. SM-1 is the introduction to and foundation for classifying soils using the Unified Soil Classification System, which is used for engineering purposes. All staff that may be involved in engineering practices should consider attending. Technical staff looking for a refresher are also welcome to attend.
This training is held twice a year in rotating locations, and in February 2025 it will be offered in Marshall and Cloquet. We are still putting the final pieces together, but you can get started on the prerequisites and watch for registration to open by visiting the SM-1 Training page.
2024 Shared Training Calendar
An updated working version of the 2024 training calendar is available. This 12 month view of training offerings is regularly updated and provides information about upcoming training events, including potential dates and locations. Please see the legend at the top and note that the further out a training is proposed the more likely adjustments will need to be made. The dates, locations, and other details are always tentative until the event is posted on the Training Calendar.
In January we will post the shared, 12 month calendar for 2025.
Technical Training & Certification Program Trainings
January
February
- Jan. 23, Exploring the Boundaries of Virtual Fence Webinar 3: Virtual Fence Economics, Online, Rangelands Gateway
- Jan. 28-30, 2025 MECA Annual Conference & Trade Show, Waite Park, Minnesota Erosion Control Association
- Jan. 29-30, Soil Management Summit (formerly Conservation Tillage Conference), Mankato, U of M
- Jan. 29-30, Tribal-State Relations Training, Mahnomen, State of Minnesota
- Feb. 26-27, Tribal-State Relations Training, Granite Fall, State of Minnesota
- March 26-27, Tribal-State Relations Training, Tower, State of Minnesota
- April 23-24, Tribal-State Relations Training, Grand Portage, State of Minnesota
- May 14-15, Tribal-State Relations Training, Carlton, State of Minnesota
- June 24-25, Tribal-State Relations Training, Onamia, State of Minnesota
- Sept. 23-25, Agroforestry Institute, Baxter, UMN Extension
Not all training takes place in a classroom. Check out the links below to learn at a time and place of your choosing.
We’ve also put together a searchable library of recorded modules, webinars, videos and other resources to help our staff and partners find professional development information on a variety of topics. You can visit BWSR's Online Learning page to find web based technical training resources sorted by category.
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