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Ralph Tiner

Ralph Tiner, M.S., M.P.A. has over 40 years of practical experience in wetland delineation and is a nationally recognized authority in the field. He recently retired from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service where he directed wetland mapping in the Northeast United States as part of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's National Wetlands Inventory (NWI). He is a nationally recognized expert on wetland delineation and has been actively involved in improving wetland delineation techniques for decades. In addition, he was compiler and principal author of the Federal Interagency Wetland Delineation Manual, which was published in 1989 and is the standard for identifying and delineating wetlands in New Jersey.

Ralph has written extensively on the subject of wetlands and is the author of several field guides including: Field Guide to Non-tidal Wetland Identification, Maine Wetlands and Their Boundaries, A Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Northeastern United States, and In Search of Swampland, as well as an update of the Wetland Indicators book entitled Wetland Indicators: A Guide to Wetland Formation, Identification, Delineation, Classification, and Mapping. His most recent books are: Tidal Wetlands Primer: An Introduction to Their Ecology, Natural History, Status, and Conservation and Remote Sensing of Wetlands: Applications and Advances (for which he is senior editor and authored several chapters).

In addition to writing about wetlands, he has been teaching wetland identification and delineation courses through the Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education Office since the mid-1980s.

Courses taught by this instructor

  • Introduction to Wetland Identification
  • Methodology for Delineating Wetlands


UPCOMING WETLAND COURSE OFFERINGS

Introduction to Wetland Identification
April 20-21, 2021

Wetland Construction: Principles, Planning, and Design
May 11-14, 2021

Vegetation Identification for Wetland Delineation: North
May 17-19, 2021

Vegetation Identification for Wetland Delineation: South
Online: May 19-20, 2021; Field Trip: May 24, 2021

Upcoming Planned Courses:

Identification of Wetland Plants in Winter
TBD

Identification of Tidal Wetland Plants
TBD

Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act Rules
TBD

Lake Management
Fall 2021 (Tentative)

Methodology for Delineating Wetlands
TBD

Soil & Site Evaluations for Septic Disposal Systems & Stormwater BMP's
TBD

NJ Wetlands Management for LSRPs
TBD

Interested in obtaining our Wetland Delineation Certificate?
By completing only two courses – Vegetation Identification for Delineating Wetlands: North or South and Methodology for Delineating Wetlands – you are eligible to sit for the examination to secure the nationally recognized Rutgers Wetland Delineation Certificate!

Click here to view a complete listing of our WETLAND TRAINING short courses.

wetland delineation instructor

Ralph Tiner

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