TRIES Wetland Delineation Training and Certification Course

This five-day (40 hour) intensive training course adheres to the Army Corp of Engineers (ACOE) Wetland Delineator Certification Program criteria, but has been updated and expanded upon by our team of skilled wetland scientists at the Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies (TRIES).  Specifically, this course covers the wetland delineation protocol authorized by the ACOE as presented in the 1987 and Regional Supplement manuals.  Our students will gain the legal, theoretical and technical skills necessary to proficiently delineate wetlands.  Emphasis will be made on the identification and application of hydrologic, hydrophytic vegetation, and hydric soil indicators within inland and coastal wetland systems.  This course will cover instructional use for both the 1987 ACOE and Regional Supplement (Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain) manuals.

The first three days of our course will be spent covering each of the wetland delineation parameters (i.e., hydrology, hydrophytic vegetation, and hydric soils) in detail; we’ll spend a day per parameter.  The first half of the day will be lecture-based and the second half of the day will be field-based.  The fourth day of class will be spent entirely in the field conducting a mock wetland delineation and clarifying student questions.  The fifth day of class is a coastal component to our inland course and is entirely optional (payment for the coastal component is additional).  That is, the fifth day of class will be spent in the Galveston area to allow student exposure and application of wetland indicators within a coastal system.  Class will begin promptly each day at 8 AM and end at 5:00 PM (with some days beginning or ending earlier or later).