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Flyer on Watershed Academy Webcasts (PDF), Dec. 2006, EPA 841-K-06-001, (2 pp, 798K, About PDF). Copies of this free flyer may be ordered from National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP) at 513-489-8190 or 800-490-9198 or send an email to nscep@bps-lmit.com.
EPA's Watershed Academy is pleased to sponsor free webcast seminars. Local watershed organizations, municipal leaders, and others are invited to sign up for these free, on-line webcast training sessions. Webcasts are typically conducted on an approximately monthly basis, on Wednesdays at 1:00pm to 3:00pm EST. Attendees must register in advance to participate in webcasts. During the webcasts, trainees log onto the Web to participate in live training conducted by expert instructors. Your computer must have the capability of playing sound in order to attend the webcasts. In advance of webcasts, we post PDF copies of the PowerPoint slides in the yellow box for those that want to print them out. The Watershed Academy is also now offering a certificate to those that attend webcasts. For those that are not able to register for a webcast, a streaming audio version of the training will be made available after the live seminar (see links to previous webcasts below).
EPA's Watershed Academy is pleased to sponsor its 62nd free Webcast Seminar on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
"Recovery Potential Screening: A Tool for Comparing Impaired Waters Restorability” by Douglas Norton, Environmental Scientist, Watershed Branch, U.S. EPA's Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds and Tatyana DiMascio, ORISE Fellow, Watershed Branch, U.S. EPA's Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds
Join us for this webinar entitled "Recovery Potential Screening: A Tool for Comparing Impaired Waters Restorability.” This webinar will help states, watershed groups and others become acquainted with a new website and methodology for analyzing and comparing restorability differences among watersheds. The website provides step-by-step screening directions, time-saving tools for calculating indices and displaying results, summaries of over 120 ecological, stressor and social indicators, a recovery literature database, and several case studies.
Recovery Potential Screening was developed to assist complex planning and prioritizing, provide a user-customizable but systematic and transparent comparison approach, and help improve restoration program results. See website at: http://www.epa.gov/recoverypotential.
The presentation will be posted in advance at www.epa.gov/watershedwebcasts. Also, Webinar participants are eligible to receive a certificate for their attendance.
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Archived Versions of Past Webcasts
Check out our archives to listen to past webcasts on many exciting watershed tools, programs and opportunities! You can also subscribe to the podcast feed of these webcasts in iTunes or another RSS aggregator 
Categories
- Clean Water Act
- Climate Change
- Funding
- Lakes
- Low Impact Development
- Nutrient Management
- Outreach and Education
- Tools and Data
- Watersheds: Protection and Planning
- Wetlands
Clean Water Act
- Monitoring and Assessment Under the Clean Water Act, April 7, 2010
- Introduction to Water Quality Standards, Sept. 10, 2009
- Introduction to the Clean Water Act, July 1, 2009
- Opportunities for Citizen Involvement in the Clean Water Act, April 19, 2006
Climate Change
- Saving Water & Energy - Reducing Greenhouse Gases by Improving Effliciency, May 17, 2011
- Climate Change Adaptation Tools for Addressing Water Issues, Dec. 2, 2010
- Working Together to Address the Effects of Climate Change on Water Resources, Oct. 27, 2009
- Wetlands and Climate Change, May 13, 2008
- Water, Energy, and Climate Change, Oct. 3, 2007
Funding
- Clean Water State Revolving Fund: What's in it for Watersheds, July 16, 2008
- Watershed Financing -- Moving Beyond Grants, Oct. 17, 2007
- Sustainable Financing for Watershed Groups, March 22, 2006
- Plan2Fund: A Tool to Organize Your Watershed Funding, Feb. 15, 2006
Lakes
- Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pollution and Harmful Algal Blooms in Lakes, January 26, 2011
- Healthy Lakeshores Though Better Shoreline Stewardship, July 15, 2010
- National Lakes Assessment: Reporting on the Condition of the Nation's Lakes, January 5, 2010
Low Impact Development
- Conducting Effective Stormwater Outreach, Oct. 27, 2011
- Designing LID to Work: Lessons Learned from North Carolina, Dec. 9, 2010
- Re-Visioning Landscapes with LID: The Houston Experience, Aug. 11, 2010
- Green Roofs: Beautiful and Innovative Solutions to Stormwater Pollution, Feb. 18, 2009
- Using Rain Gardens to Reduce Runoff -- Slow it down, spread it out, soak it in!, Dec. 3, 2008
- Green Streets: From Gray Funnels to Green Sponges, July 23, 2008
- Wastewater Utilites Using Sustainable Watershed Approaches, Feb. 20, 2008
- Smart Growth and Green Infrastructure, Nov. 28, 2007
- Phase II Stormwater, Nov. 16, 2005
- Low Impact Development Strategies, Tools, and Techniques for Sustainable Watersheds, Oct. 19, 2005
Nutrient Management
- Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pollution Series: Tools for Developing State Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pollution Reduction Strategies, Nov. 30, 2011
- Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pollution Series: State and Local Policies to Restrict the Use of Lawn Fertilizers, Sept. 21, 2011
- Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pollution Series: Nitrate in Ground Water, March 29, 2011
- Managing Nutrients in the National Estuary Program, March 1, 2010
- National Lakes Assessment: Reporting on the Condition of the Nation's Lakes, January 5, 2010
- An Urgent Call to Action: Nutrient Innovations Task Group, Dec. 1, 2009
- Moving Forward on Gulf Hypoxia, Oct. 7, 2008
- Managing Nutrients in Your Backyard and Your Commuunity, March 19, 2008
- Implementing TMDLs and Trading Throught the National Estuary Program, February 21, 2007
Outreach and Education
- Earth Gauge™: Conveying Environmental Information Through the TV Weather Report, August 15, 2007
- Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) & ART: Combining Science and Art, July 18, 2007
- Influencing Behaviors Using Social Marketing, June 28, 2006
- Getting in Step: Developing Your Message and Publicizing it Effectively, July 20, 2005
Tools and Data
- Tools for Protecting Coastal Wetlands, May 4, 2010
- Watershed Central: A New Gateway to Watershed Information, April 15, 2009
- ATTAINS -- A Gateway to State-Reported Water Quality Information, June 18, 2008
- The Wastewater Information System Tools (TWIST) for Managing Decentralized Systems, Jan. 16, 2008
- Using STORET Data to Characterize Your Watershed, June 21, 2007
- Watershed Plan Builder: EPA's Interactive Web-based Tool Designed to Promote the Development of Comprehensive Watershed Plans, May 2, 2007
- Key EPA Internet Tools for Watershed Management, March 28, 2007
- Using NEMO- Nonpoint Source Education for Municipal Officials- to Advance Watershed Management, Jan. 17, 2007
- Getting Started in Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring, Oct. 11, 2006
- Eight Tools for Watershed Protection in Developing Areas, June 22, 2005
Watersheds: Protection and Planning
- EPA's Healthy Watersheds Initiative: Protecting Our High Quality Waters and Watersheds, Oct. 13, 2010
- A Watershed Dialogue: How Can We Build the Capacity and Effectiveness of Watershed Groups, September 15, 2010
- Monitoring Watershed Program Effectiveness, April 10, 2008
- Integrating Wetlands into Watershed Protection, May 17, 2006
- Using Brownfields Grants for Watershed Restoration and Revitalization, Sept. 20, 2006
- Benefits of Watershed-Based NPDES Permitting, July 19, 2006
- Using EPA's Draft Handbook for Developing Watershed Plans to Restore and Protect Our Waters, Jan. 18, 2006
- Introduction to Trading for Water Quality Protection, Dec. 14, 2005
- Phase II Stormwater, Nov. 16, 2005
- The ABCs of TMDLs for Stakeholders, Sept. 18, 2005
Wetlands
- Tools for Protecting Coastal Wetlands, May 4, 2010
- Wetlands - Reconnecting to Nature, May 28, 2009
- Wetlands and Climate Change, May 13, 2008
- Assessing Wetlands Loss/Conditions and Restoration, September 26, 2007
- Long-Term Stewardship of Wetlands Mitigation Sites, May 23, 2007
- Watershed Plan Builder: EPA's Interactive Web-based Tool Designed to Promote the Development of Comprehensive Watershed Plans, May 2, 2007
- Integrating Drinking Water into Watershed Protection, Nov. 29, 2006
- Eight Tools for Watershed Protection in Developing Areas, June 22, 2005