Event: Wetlands Ecological Restoration in the San Francisco Bay Area
Registration opens July 28! This course will explore wetland restoration ecology primarily through local examples of applied restoration ecology to wetlands in the San Francisco Bay Area. It will cover case histories of some of the region’s oldest major wetland restoration projects, as well as some of the most recent regional wetland restoration designs for climate change adaptation and resilience. The course will feature integration of wetland restoration sites and designs within their geomorphic and ecological settings, and the reciprocal influence of wetland vegetation and physical processes in restoring wetland ecosystems. Topics will include: formulation of meaningful and measurable restoration goals and objectives; integrated management of native and invasive non-native vegetation during early succession; designing complexity of variable gradients within wetlands; and the role of episodic events in the evolution of wetland restoration sites. Adaptive monitoring approaches that address both predicted and unanticipated outcomes of restoration, to generate and test ecological hypotheses with practical management utility, will also be examined through project examples. This course will be primarily lecture and discussion, with a field trip held on Saturday. Class format: 75% lecture and 25% field demonstration. Instructor: Peter Baye Duration: 2.5 Days, 2.0 CEU
http://online.sfsu.edu/wetlands