Programs

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Amateur Landscape and Garden Design

This micro-credential program will help you master landscape and garden design skills in just 16 weeks. You’ll gain the hands-on knowledge and practice you need to create the yard and garden of your dreams.

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Climate Activism

The Climate Activism program provides climate activists with the skills and knowledge to build practices for organizing transformational change.

Community Fishers Training

Community Fishers is an advanced solution using state‐of‐the‐art technology that provides a practical, user‐friendly tool for collecting data from mobile scientific instruments, which can then be managed and freely accessed via Ocean Networks Canada’s world‐leading oceanographic data management system, Oceans 2.0.

Ecological Restoration

Advanced ecology training that builds on your knowledge in the field. Courses are offered online, appealing to working professionals as a means to meet their annual professional development requirements or to update their skills and understanding.

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Fire Ecology for Environmental Restoration

The Fire Ecology for Environmental Restoration program equips learners with practical knowledge to understand and treat the effects of fire on natural ecosystems.

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GIS Skills and Mapping

GIS technology is increasingly integrated into various industries to enhance spatial data analysis, decision-making, and planning capabilities. The program provides hands-on training in open-source software like QGIS, Google Earth and the Gaia app. You will learn to create custom maps, analyze spatial data, and answer complex human and environmental questions.

Green Shores™ Training

Open to homeowners and shoreline professionals, these one- and two-day workshops provide information about the Green Shores program, including its rationale, benefits and application.

LiDAR Fundamentals for Climate Change Risk Analysis

LiDAR is a remote sensing survey method that facilitates 3D mapping of the Earth’s surface including urban and rural topography. This program equips learners to use and analyze LiDAR data for developing critical information towards mitigating the impacts of climate change.

Mapping with Drones

Do you want to take your connection to our planet to new heights? Flying drones gives you the chance to navigate the Earth from above and reach new perspectives like never before.

Ocean Acoustic Monitoring

Ocean acoustic monitoring empowers community members to easily contribute high-quality, continuous data on noise levels to help better understand and inform policy on the changes that may be impacting the ocean environment over time.

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Politics, Policy and Climate Action

The Politics, Policy and Climate Action micro-certificate will provide insight into the policy and political contexts that shape climate action across scales from local to global, including relevant institutional and governance innovations.

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Practical Leadership for Technology and Engineering

This program is designed for professionals in technical fields aiming to enhance their leadership soft skills. It covers essential leadership foundations tailored to technology, engineering and geomatics contexts including active listening, effective management, team-building and conflict resolution.

Restoration of Natural Systems – Certificate

Knowing where we are headed, from an ecological standpoint, requires an understanding of environmental impacts and recovery strategies. The Restoration of Natural Systems program provides a bridge that connects this knowledge with the practical skills needed to solve complex restoration issues.

Restoration of Natural Systems – Diploma

The Restoration of Natural Systems program provides a bridge that connects this knowledge with the practical skills needed to solve complex restoration issues. The program’s holistic approach will empower you, as someone who is passionate about the environment, to make a difference in how we connect with the natural world.

RNS Student Resources

This page contains links to resources that will support your learning in the Restoration of Natural Systems Program.

Tourism Sustainability

This micro-certificate addresses the response to extreme weather events and the global need for climate change mitigation and adaption. The program aims to prepare learners with the tools and knowledge to navigate environmental challenges in the tourism sector.