WRL Professional Training Courses
WRL Projects Team is now offering the following three professional training courses: Introduction to Coastal Management; Floodplain Flow Behaviour - Fundamentals; and Wetland Hydrology - Restoring the Basics. To register your interest in any of these courses, submit your details below. You will be contacted with information updates regarding course schedule, content and registration details as they come available. These courses are run by practitioners, for practitioners.
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Introduction to Coastal Management
Tentative Date: September 2012
Understanding the science of the coastal environment is becoming increasingly important for not only engineers and scientists, but also environmental officers, planners, policy makers, and managers working in a wide range of fields. This course is designed to introduce participants to the fundamental concepts of coastal management and the coastal environment. The course is a good introduction for people starting an engineering or science career in coastal management, or to allow members of other industries to communicate with coastal practitioners.
The course will provide background information on the key aspects of coastal management, provide direction on available guidelines and literature, and introduce the technical concepts of coastal processes and management.
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Floodplain Flow Behaviour - Fundamentals
Tentative Date: September 2012
Recent flood events in Newcastle in June 2007 and more recently in South East Queensland’s Lockyer Valley in January 2011 have highlighted the importance of having robust planning guidelines and building stability criteria for floodplains. These floods have also highlighted a requirement for accurate representation of flood behaviour to support land use planning and flood evacuation planning documentation.
A sound understanding of the fundamentals of floodplain flow behaviour is a basic requirement for anyone seeking to work in floodplain management or in flood insurance. The course is designed for practitioners and managers who have an interest in understanding the basis of floodplain flow behaviour.
The course is technical in nature and will equip the participants with a practical understanding of floodplain flow fundamentals. This fundamental knowledge is paramount for anyone seeking to develop or assess numerical floodplain models and to understand the basic floodplain flow information used to underpin floodplain planning and management or similarly, to assess floodplain risk and likely damages important to natural hazards analysts in the insurance industry.
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Wetland Hydrology Course - Restoring the Basics
Date: September 10-12, 2012
Wetland construction, restoration, preservation and monitoring projects are underway throughout Australia. The primary component that links these projects is water management. This course will decipher the engineering language, detail the link between the ecological and the hydrological and explain the fundamentals of wetland hydrodynamics, water quality, restoration and hydrology for both surface and groundwater.
This 2.5 day training course will focus on wetland surface and groundwater hydrology, with modules on wetland hydrology, hydrodynamics, soils and groundwater, chemistry, design, hydraulics, modelling, and restoration techniques. The final day of the course is spent at the Ramsar listed Tomago Wetland reviewing on-ground restoration works, learning field techniques and undertaking sample analysis.
The course is designed for wetland practitioners with a background in management, ecology or planning; but who require further information on wetland hydrology. The course outcomes can assist in undertaking field campaigns, designing management plans, reviewing technical reports, planning wetland remediation projects and related wetland studies.
Note that course attendance is limited to 25 attendees and is allocated on a first come basis. Please contact Dr William Glamore at w.glamore@wrl.unsw.edu.au or 02 8071 9868 for further details.
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