Dear Environmental Professional,

The PSU Environmental Professional Program offers respected university-level, technical, short courses to Northwest, national, and international professionals.

We are proud of the courses you see in this website. These offerings are designed to provide convenient and quick access to exactly what you need in order to be current, knowledgable, and competitive in a fast-changing career area. Through you, your employer, and a host of experts, our function at the University is to hone in on training programs that promote sustainable natural function and support highly competent professionals.

Our goal is to provide affordable training that promotes:

Technical skills

Ability to address sustainable natural function

Contacts, connections, and partnerships

Ethical, fiscal, and regulatory responsibility

Regulatory compliance

Portland State University Currently offers the professional certificates listed below. For all certificate programs, the required courses must be completed within three years and need not be taken in the listed sequence, with one exception: if you plan to complete the River Restoration Professional Certificate, you must begin with "EPP 221 - Introduction to River Restoration, Part I: Physical Processes".

The River Restoration required core courses will be offered at least twice per calendar year, once as individual professional short courses, and once in the Summer Field Institute, for those who prefer to take all five core courses together in a four-week field intensive format. Click here for more information about the River Restoration Professional Cerificate Program.

For the other certificate programs, courses are offered once per year. Most wetland field courses are offered in the winter and spring.

Any of our courses may be taken individually, provided that any prerequisites are met by the student. Most courses offer CEU or PDH, and many offer optional graduate credit.

Professional Certificate Programs include:

River Restoration

Soil Bioengineering Practices

Wetland Delineation

Wetland Mitigation and Restoration

Environmental Regulations and Compliance