Stream Restoration for Design Professionals 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 – 11:45 am
Lunch (On your own): 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 4:30 pm
The Behavior of Surface Water
Flow measurement
Historical records
H&H modeling methods
Understanding human impacts
Causes of river degradation
Introduction to Geomorphology
Fluvial geomorphology 101
The 4 dimensions (section, planform, profile, time)
Channel evolution
Stream hydraulics
Stream ecology
Tools for Assessment and Restoration
Rapid watershed assessment methods
Prescribed treatments
In-stream structures (profile)
Streambank stabilization (section)
Planform reconstruction (planform)
Buffer revegetation
Watershed management
Project examples
Design Considerations
Plans and specifications
Stakeout and structure tables
Submittals and deliverables
Project stop points
Site preparation
Erosion and sediment control
Managing invasive vegetation
Successful riparian restoration
Lessons Learned: Construction Considerations
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 CPD Hours/PDHs
Landscape Architects
6.5 HSW Contact Hours
6.5 LA CES HSW PDHs
Floodplain Managers
6.5 ASFPM CECs
Construction Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This live lecture presentation is open to the public and offers 6.5 continuing professional development hours/PDHs to professional engineers in all states and 6.5 HSW contact hours to Ohio landscape architects. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Ohio.
This seminar is approved by the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System for 6.5 HSW PDHs. Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES and LA/CES.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York architects and landscape architects.
The Association of State Floodplain Managers has approved this activity for 6.5 CECs.
This course offers a continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. It has not been approved by any state contractor licensing board.
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
Brian J. Kwiatkowski
Principal Ecologist with Davey Resource Group, Inc. (DRG) and a National Expert in River and Stream Restoration, OhioMr. Kwiatkowski has over 25 years of experience in the field. He’s a certified professional ecologist (CE) and fluvial geomorphologist, who has collected and analyzed data on more than 1,000 miles of river and stream and contributed to stormwater best management practice manuals, addressing the design of ecosystem restoration projects, green infrastructure planning, water quality improvement, and habitat reconstruction. Mr. Kwiatkowski has assisted numerous clients, including non-profit organizations, municipalities, park districts, and government agencies, with the planning, design, and installation of restoration projects on a variety of scopes and scales. His day-to-day professional responsibilities include project management, public outreach, stream assessment, data analysis and calculations, restoration design, and construction oversight.
Craig Straub
Civil and Environmental Consultants, Inc.Civil and Environmental Consultants, Inc.
Dr. Straub has over 20 years of experience in sustainable stormwater management systems, aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem reconstruction, endangered species and wetland science. He has managed complex projects related to watershed restoration and has developed green and grey design stormwater solutions. He has led projects related to watershed assessment, including GIS and mapping, hydraulic and hydrologic modeling, watershed ecology, source area identification, pollutant loading analysis, and evaluation of watershed management strategies and best management practices (BMPs). Dr. Straub has also conducted several wetland delineations and stream evaluations along with wetland and stream mitigation design and has obtained Section 404 and 401 permits for various clients, negotiating the complexities of the permitting processes. With an extensive background in preparing planting plans and technical specifications in support of wetland and stream restoration he has developed comprehensive land-use plans involving the return of remediated sites to their natural historic conditions and has designed and implemented ecological restoration plans, including monitoring and maintenance, for wetlands, prairies, riparian and upland forests and streams. Dr. Straub has also conducted bioengineering workshops along with bioengineering design and implementation for stream restoration sites.