Slope Stabilization and Landslide Prevention Seminar
DISCLAIMER
Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
Learn more about the on-demand format in our FAQ or contact us at (715) 835-5900 or customerservice@halfmoonseminars.org
Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 5:00 pm
Slope Mechanics and Movement
Types and causes of slope movement and instability
• Rock fall and rockslides
• Subsidence
• Landslides, mudslides and mudflows
Soils, water and geology
• Reviewing geologic conditions
• Examining soils and topography
• Evaluating surface and groundwater conditions
• Natural slopes
• Engineered slopes
Effects of construction on soils and water management
Slope Stabilization Methods
Use of vegetation
Surface and erosion protection
Drainage
Walls
Installing earth retention structures
Rock slope stabilization
Geosynthetics
Lime stabilization
The Impacts of Water on Soil Stability
Preserving stream corridors
Restoration of streams
Floodplains
Surface water
Groundwater
Stormwater management and drainage
Sub-surface drainage systems
Credits
Professional Engineers
7.0 PDHs
Architects
7.0 HSW Continuing Ed. Hours
7.0 AIA HSW Learning Units
Landscape Architects
7.0 HSW CPE Hours
7.0 LA CES HSW PDHs
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 7.0 PDHs to professional engineers, 7.0 HSW continuing education hours to architects, and 7.0 HSW CPE hours to landscape architects in most states, including New Mexico. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in New Mexico.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 7.0 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885) and the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System for 7.0 HSW PDHs. Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES and LA/CES.
Professional engineers, architects and landscape architects seeking continuing education credit in other states will be able to apply the hours earned at this seminar, in most cases. Refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
This course offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. It has not been approved by any state contractor licensing entity.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Deborah A. Fisher P.E. CFM. CPESC
Owner, Senior Water Resources Engineer at Water Engineering Solutions LLC
Ms. Fisher has over 30 years of experience in hydrology and hydraulics, having designed hundreds of drainage and water quality treatment facilities all along the front range of Colorado. She has also authored hundreds of drainage studies and is well versed in low impact development, groundwater investigation, and emergency flood mitigation. She was the continuing education director for Martin/Martin for over ten years, and she conducted several hundred classes for the civil department. Ms. Fisher’s current passion is helping people and solving water problems, particularly related to floodplains, and understanding water migration and control, both on the surface and underground. She has evaluated hundreds of sites and performed water issue evaluations of floodplains and for conditions such as standing water, wet basements, excessive sump pump discharges, and multiple other drainage issues.