Corporate Training By Zack Academy - Environmental Forensics in Water Resources

Why Should You Take This Environmental Forensics in Water Resources course?

This Environmental Forensics in Water Resources course provides useful information for a large range of professionals who deal with environmental water resources, especially legal liability and changes in stream water quality, shallow water table, drainage, wetlands, and sedimentation issues. Course attendees will gain an understanding of the main environmental forensic techniques available and how they apply to complex inverse condemnation, regulatory takings, and environmental damage cases. In addition, the expert witness investigations of several prior environmental cases before the United States Federal Court of Claims will be examined, and attendees will be asked to brainstorm several case studies and discuss alternative investigative approaches.

Who Is The Intended Audience For This Environmental Forensics in Water Resources course?

This course is intended for environmental professionals including, but not limited to, environmental consultants, industrial operators (e.g., power, mining, farming, and construction companies), insurance agency employees, environmental lawyers, and local, state and federal governmental employees.

The Forensic Techniques Explored In This Course Include:

• Water quality and shallow water table modeling,
• Wetland drainage,
• Complex wetland delineation,
• Riparian rights,
• Sediment age dating.  

Other Topics To Be Covered Include:

• What is Environmental Forensics and how does it apply to water resource issues?
• Examination of legal complaints to determine the relevant factual issues in cases
• Discussion of investigative concepts and their applicability to the factual issues
• Historical file review and aerial photograph documentation
• Approaches to the use of gauging station, water table monitoring, and climatic data
• Discussion of various models that are used to examine specific water resource issues
• Sediment radiocarbon age dating of sediments 
• Alternative age dating techniques including atmospheric contaminants
• Key attributes for successful expert witness investigation and testimony
• Environmental change, impact, and causation as it applies to inverse condemnation cases
• Environmental damage causation as it applies to regulatory takings cases
• Case-studies of investigative techniques in inverse condemnation cases

Important: 

• Please bring a pen or pencil and notepad
• Drinks and snacks will be provided throughout the day
• Please wait to receive a course confirmation email (roughly one month prior to the class) before making any travel arrangements