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October 19, 2013

EPA Watershed Academy

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 below. 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.

Urban watershed creek restoration.



Introductory/Overview Modules

These modules introduce the principles of the watershed approach and the value of working at a watershed level.

* Principles of watershed management

Sustaining healthy aquatic ecosystems

* Ecosystem services: benefits to human societies

Why watersheds?

Ohio’s virtual watershed tour

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

* Protecting instream flows: how much water does a river need?

* Stream corridor structure

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: maintaining natural life support processes

Birds: bellwethers of watershed health

Wetland functions and values

Understanding lake ecology

The role of nearshore ecosystems as fish and shellfish nurseries


Watershed Change Modules

These modules describe both natural and human-induced changes in watersheds, and compare normal changes with changes of concern.

The Effect of Climate Change on Water Resources and Programs

* Agents of watershed change

Growth and Water Resources

* Nonpoint source pollution with Nitrogen and Phosphorus

Watersheds: Connecting Weather to the Environment

Weather and the Built Environment

Invasive non-native species

Human alteration of the global Nitrogen cycle

Biotic invasions: causes, epidemiology, global consequences and control

Nutrient pollution of coastal rivers, bays, and seas

Effects of aquaculture on world fish supplies


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

* Overview of watershed monitoring

Rapid bio-assessment protocols

Watershed ecological risk assessment

Watershed modeling

Fundamentals of the Rosgen Stream Classification System

Training in Use of the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) and NHDPlus

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

* Agricultural management practices for water quality protection

* Forestry Best Management Practices in watersheds

Stream corridor restoration tools

Restoration: what’s right/wrong with this picture?

Introduction to EPA’s drinking water source protection programs

Source water protection: BMPs and other measures for protecting drinking water supplies

Controlling underground injection of wastewater

Advanced drinking water technology workshop

Managing transient non-community drinking water systems

Applying ecological principles to management of the U.S. national forests

Ecological principles for managing land use


Community/Social/Water Law Modules

These modules cover social issues, communications, relevant laws and regulations. They concentrate on the human element of watershed management.

Developing a Sustainable Finance Plan

* Getting in step: a guide for conducting watershed outreach campaigns

* Top ten watershed lessons learned

* Introduction to the Clean Water Act

Key Concepts of Water Quality Standards

Key Concepts of Impaired Waters and Developing TMDLS

Introduction to the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1996

Water in a changing world

Statewide watershed management executive overview

Economics of sustainability

Monitoring consortiums

Introduction to public water systems

Grade K through 12 watershed learning links

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