483-Self-Sustaining Ecosystems

By: Randy S. Wilder, PE

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Course Objective

This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description

This course is an introduction to Self-Sustaining Ecosystems. The intent of this course is NOT to make the reader an expert in every ecosystem design, but rather, introduce some challenges in creating a self-sustaining ecosystem by using an actual project that was successfully designed, permitted and constructed… but not just any project! This project consisted of not one, but two, different manmade tidal saltwater ecosystems. The course explains the process used to permit and construct a tidal saltwater marsh and a tidal saltwater pond at the Suncoast Conservation Center.

This course IS intended for those engineers and designers to:

be aware of different ecosystem projects and become sufficiently familiar with the permitting requirements;
discuss potential ecosystem opportunities with a client;
understand the permitting challenges;
know how to work with the regulatory agencies for projects and ecosystems that the regulators are not familiar with;
discuss the construction challenges that were faced;
ease the pains involved with an innovative ecosystem permit.

The course will begin by providing a brief background of the project goals and challenges before presenting the technical topics on the marsh and pond designs. Again, this introductory course is about what creating new ecosystems may involve, and it provides a basic guide for an engineer to use in discussing ecosystem permitting intelligently with a client, as well as the initial discussions with the regulatory agencies.

Questions about this course? Email the Author: wildersun410@gmail.com

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483-Self Sustaining Ecosystems

Brian Mitsch

10/18/2023

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This was a very interesting course due to it being a first of it's kind. I can see the benefits in areas where a complimentary eco system will need to be developed to help maintain the balance between development and the environment.

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Raymond Toms

01/29/2023

Really good and interesting project with very well written course material

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Leeshir

01/07/2023

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Course was well written: organization of the content and I appreciated the inclusion of insights related to the challenges and solutions. The coordination between stakeholders was also useful and highlights the skills needed to develop and use nature-based systems which are becoming more and more important. Showed well the engineering related to natural systems and useful for thinking about freshwater pond systems as well.

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Robert Wooten

12/21/2022

An interesting course. A project was developed and completed where regulatory agencies that would have to approve it had no familiarity with it because of its uniqueness.

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Joe

12/17/2022

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Very interesting. Well written.

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Michael J Eisenbise

12/14/2022

I enjoyed this course. The topic was new to me. I found it interesting and would recommend it. I like the enthusiasm of the autor.

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Course Code: 100209-16

Course PDH Hours: 4

Engineering Course Approvals

This course is accepted for engineering continuing education credit in all US states, territories, the District of Columbia, and Canadian provinces.
Ohio rules allow only 6-hours of unsupervised online courses such as this course per license renewal period
Kansas rules allow only 5-hours of self-study courses such as this course per license renewal period

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