Summer Stream Ecosystem Restoration Workshops and Professional Certificate Program

The University at Buffalo has been offering a series of summer workshops in ecosystem restoration since 2005. This program offers workshops in restoration taught by leading scientists and practitioners from western New York and around the country. Participants can register for any combination of courses. In addition, completion of this program results in receiving a Certificate, see below for details.

Download the 2013 course schedule here.

Detailed course decriptions can be found here.

Professional Certificate in Stream Restoration

In 2011, a professional Certificate program was implemented to address the educational needs of professionals and students who intend to work in the stream restoration field. A professional Certificate in Stream Restoration will be awarded to participants who complete 15 days of summer workshops, including a set of core/introductory courses, within a three-year period. The core/introductory workshops, each two to four days in length, introduce students to stream restoration topics in: 1) physical processes; 2) ecological processes; 3) design and planning; and 4) monitoring and assessment. If needed, the remainder of the 15-day certificate requirement can be made up of selected elective workshops. Elective offerings will vary by year, but generally include topics related to invasive species, field data collection, modeling, and stream assessment techniques.

Participants will be awarded a Certificate after completing all required workshops and submitting a $25 fee to UB’s Millard Fillmore College (for registering and maintaining the Certificate records).  The Certificate does not provide academic credit or transcript notation, but is a professional program tracked by continuing education credits (CEUs). If you are taking any of UB’s Stream Restoration Workshops and intend to pursue the Certificate program, please email Amy Bartlett at amyb [at] buffalo [dot] edu to make arrangements to track your workshop completion. Participants may continue to take any of the workshops without pursuing the Certificate. 

For the 2014 preliminary schedule, click here.