EnviroCourses.org

Science-based Training Solutions for State & Federal Regulators, Consultants, Public Stakeholders and the Regulated Community

EnviroCourses.org and SVASA (Global Hydrologic Services, Inc.) develop, manage and conduct environmental training courses in cooperation with the Long Island Groundwater Research Institute (SUNY, Stony Brook.) Through our unique partnership, we have become a well established provider of cost-effective, niche market environmental training products sharply focused on meeting the needs of state environmental regulators. Our innovative business model enables qualified state government employees to participate in non-biased, cutting edge training on current environmental topics free of charge and (typically) within their local commuting area.

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2007-2008 Course Availablity (subject to change):

• Ethanol, Other Fuel Blending Components and Additives: From Characterization through Remediation
  
  The original MTBE & Other Fuel Oxygenates course premiered December 16-17, 2003 at the Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook in partnership with the Environmental Council of States. The comprehensive, two day classroom style training course was designed to enhance professional awareness of advances in cutting edge field methods available to assess environmental impacts resulting from petroleum-based MTBE and other fuel oxygenate releases.
  
  The program has been completely updated for 2007 and now includes critical ethanol subsurface contamination issues. Specifically, we address state regulator concerns about MTBE and ethanol comingled in soil and groundwater matrix. The course has been presented to hundreds of students in the United States and Europe with great success.
  
  
  
• Groundwater Modeling Management and Application for Decision Making (The Modeling Management Course)
  
  

  The primary Course objective is to teach decision-makers, managers, regulators and others how to recognize, evaluate and then manage sources of model error within a decision-making framework; what can be reasonably expected from modeling analyses; and how to ask appropriate questions of the modeler(s) that make the decision making process an informed one.

  The Modeling Management Course is an 8 hour CEU-approved short program for Environmental Professionals with a broad range of skills, but focused on those who makes project- and management-level decisions on the basis of models. This is NOT a model development or calibration instruction course, though even experienced modelers will benefit from exposure to the latest information on identifying and evaluating sources of errors in groundwater (and other) models. 

  The Modeling Management Course provides a unique opportunity to learn how to evaluate existing groundwater (and other) models, identify their potential for error, and implement methods that can mitigate the impacts of modeling error on decision making and defensible data collection.