Welcome to the Elkhorn Slough Coastal Training Program
With the significant development pressures on coastal communities and the resulting impacts to coastal resources, it is important that those individuals involved in coastal decision making and planning have the opportunity to improve their skills and scientific knowledge in order to address critical resource issues.
To answer this need, the National Estuarine Research Reserve System began its Coastal Training Program (CTP). The objectives of this program are to:
- Provide the best available science, tools, and techniques to those individuals and groups whose actions impact coastal watersheds, estuaries and near shore waters.
- Increase our understanding of the environmental, social, and economic consequences of human activity within the coastal landscape.
- Increase information exchange and collaboration amongst the many individuals and institutions who affect coastal ecosystems.
The Elkhorn Slough Coastal Training Program focuses on a variety of local and regional issues including those of particular significance such as
- habitat management
- sustainable agriculture
- clean water
- eco-tourism
- endangered and invasive species
We strive to provide useful courses that address high priority issues of local and regional importance to planners, managers and regulators of coastal area resources.
The Coastal Training Program brings diverse people together - farmers, fishermen, regulatory personnel, elected officials, landowners, and scientists - to define issues and explore solutions. We are able to build collaborative networks that teach and lead each other to conserve one of the biodiversity hotspots of the U.S.
As our program grows and develops, we are becoming the region's premier forum for people to go to when they need better information about coastal ecology.
Current Events
Geodatabase Design and Modeling Workshop
May 18, 2012, 8:30 AM
Interdisciplinary Sciences Building Room 486, UCSC
This course covers the essential concepts of the geodatabase, the native data storage format for ArcGIS, and explores its advanced ...
Making Rangeland Management Work for Ranchers, Agencies, and the Land
May 23, 2012, 2:30 PM
Castro Valley Library
Grazing is increasingly recognized as an important tool to manage natural resources and improve habitat in the undeveloped hills ...
2012 California Tiger Salamander Workshop
Jun 7, 2012, 8:30 AM
Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve
Our popular workshop on the California tiger salamander returns once again. Great opportunity to learn from a leading expert ...
2012 California Tiger Salamander Field Training Practicum #1
Jun 7, 2012, 4:30 PM
TBD - stay tuned; we will email those who register
Field training practicum details for CTS workshop on June 7, 2012.
2012 California Tiger Salamander Field Training Practicum #2
Jun 8, 2012, 9:00 AM
TBD - stay tuned; we will email those who register
Field training practicum that is included for those who are registered in the 2012 California Tiger Salamander Workshop.
California Tiger Salamander Workshop - Livermore
Jun 13, 2012, 9:00 AM
Martinelli Event Center, 3585 Greenvillle Road, Livermore, CA 94550
This workshop is a great opportunity to gain an understanding of CTS biology and ecology. By completing this workshop, we ...
Introduction to Web Mapping Development using the ArcGIS Javascript API
Jun 14, 2012, 8:30 AM
Interdisciplinary Sciences Building Room 486, UCSC
This workshop teaches the basics of how to build attractive, sophisticated internet mapping applications using the lightweight, browser based ArcGIS ...
Connectivity Planning for the San Francisco Bay Area & Beyond! - South and East Bay Linkages
Jun 26, 2012, 9:00 AM
Moore Foundation 1661 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303
The Bay Area And Beyond Critical Linkages Project, working with regional scientists and incorporating the habitat and movement needs of ...
Coastal Conservancy
California Department of Fish
Elkhorn Slough Foundation
National Oceanic and
National Estuarine Research Reserve System