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Welcome
to the Watershed Academy's Distance Learning Program -- Watershed
Academy Web. This Web site offers a variety of self-paced
training modules that represent a basic and broad introduction to
the watershed management field. The modules are organized by the six
themes listed above. Modules vary in the time they
to complete,
from ½ hour to 2 hours. Fifteen of them (marked with asterisks * below)
are the core modules for the Watershed Academy Certificate
Program.
 Introductory/Overview
Modules
These modules introduce the principles of the watershed approach and the
value of working at a watershed level. 
Watershed Ecology Modules
These modules show that watersheds are natural systems that provide
substantial benefits to people and the environment when they are kept
in good condition.
| * | Introduction
to watershed ecology (HTML version), (PDF version, 1.8MB, 37 pages) |
| * |
Protecting
instream flows: how much water does a river need? (HTML version), (PDF version, 1.2MB, 22 pages) |
| * | Stream corridor
structure (HTML version), (PDF version, 8.0MB, 34 pages) |
| | Biodiversity and
ecosystem functioning: maintaining natural life support processes (PDF version only, 968KB, 14 pages) |
| | Birds: bellwethers of watershed health (HTML version), (PDF version, 1.7MB, 24 pages) |
| | Wetland
functions and values (HTML version), (PDF version, 1.3MB, 23 pages) |
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Understanding lake ecology
(HTML version), (PDF version, 871KB, 57 pages) |
| | The role of nearshore ecosystems as fish and shellfish nurseries
(PDF version only, 186KB, 14 pages) |
Watershed Change Modules
These modules describe both natural and human-induced changes in watersheds,
and compare normal changes with changes of concern.
| * |
Agents
of watershed change (HTML version), (PDF version, 3.2MB, 49 pages) |
| * | Nonpoint source
pollution with Nitrogen and Phosphorus (PDF version only, 472KB, 14 pages)
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| | Invasive non-native
species (HTML version only) |
| | Human alteration
of the global Nitrogen cycle (PDF version only, 878KB, 17 pages) |
| | Biotic invasions:
causes, epidemiology, global consequences and control (PDF version only, 349KB, 22 pages) |
| | Nutrient pollution
of coastal rivers, bays, and seas (PDF version only, 947KB, 17 pages)
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Effects of aquaculture
on world fish supplies(PDF version only, 231KB, 14 pages) |
Analysis and Planning Modules
These modules address how watershed planning, monitoring and assessment
are important first steps toward solving problems.
| * |
Introduction
to the watershed planning process (HTML version), (PDF version, 1.3MB, 28 pages) |
| * | Overview
of watershed monitoring (HTML version), (PDF version, 4.3MB, 33 pages) |
| | Rapid
bioassessment protocols (HTML version), (PDF version, 2.0MB, 34 pages) |
| | Watershed
ecological risk assessment (HTML version), (PDF version, 1.9MB, 32 pages) |
| | Training in use
of the national hydrography GIS dataset (NHD) (HTML version only) |
| | Watershed modeling (HTML version), (PDF version, 8.9MB, 35 pages) |
| | Fundamentals of the Rosgen Stream Classification System
(HTML Version Only)
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Management Practices Modules
These modules show how watershed management challenges such as urban
runoff, cropland management, forestry and other issues are addressed by
techniques that reduce environmental impacts. | * |
Eight tools of watershed protection in developing areas (HTML version), (PDF version, 2.7MB, 30 pages)
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| * | Agricultural
management practices for water quality protection(HTML version), (PDF version, 2.7MB, 54 pages) |
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Forestry
Best Management Practices in watersheds (HTML version), (PDF version, 4.9MB, 47 pages) |
| | Stream corridor
restoration tools (HTML version only) |
| | Restoration:
what's right/wrong with this picture? (HTML version only) |
| | Introduction to EPA's drinking water source protection programs (PDF version only, 4.5MB, 119 pages) |
| | Source water protection: Best Management Practices and other measures for protecting drinking water supplies (PDF version only, 3.6MB, 125 pages) |
| | Controlling
underground injection of wastewater (PDF version only, 2.1MB, 65 pages) |
| | Advanced
drinking water technology workshop (Powerpoint version for web) |
| | Managing
transient non-community drinking water systems (Powerpoint version for web) |
| | Applying ecological
principles to management of the U.S. national forests (PDF version only, 1.1MB, 22 pages) |
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Ecological principles
for managing land use (PDF version only, 579KB, 12 pages) |
Community/Social/Water Law Modules
These modules cover social issues, communications, relevant laws and regulations.
They concentrate on the human element of watershed management.
| * |
Getting
in step: a guide to effective outreach in your watershed (HTML version), (PDF version, 2.4MB, 49 pages)
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| * | Top ten watershed
lessons learned(HTML version), (PDF version, 11.5MB, 85 pages) |
| * | Introduction to the Clean Water Act (HTML version), (PDF version, 4.3MB, 70 pages) |
| | Introduction
to the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1996 (Powerpoint version), (PDF version, 1.9MB, 100 pages) |
| | Water in a changing
world
(PDF version only, 671KB, 18 pages) |
| | Statewide
watershed management executive overview (HTML version), (PDF version, 1.6MB, 21 pages) |
| | Economics
of sustainability (PDF version only, 815KB, 61 pages)
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| | Monitoring consortiums (HTML version only) |
| | Introduction
to public water systems (PDF version only, 2.8MB, 125 pages)
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| | Grade
K through 12 watershed learning links (HTML version only) |
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