"Learning By Doing" is the philosophy of the Nielsen Environmental Field School.

The Complete Ground-Water Monitoring Field Course

This comprehensive 5-day field course covers everything from environmental drilling and monitoring well placement, design, construction and development to correct procedures for sampling ground water from monitoring wells.

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The Environmental Sampling Field Course

This intensive four-day field course features classroom and field instruction on sampling strategies, methods and equipment for soil, soil gas, ground water, surface water, and sediment.

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The Complete Ground-Water Sampling Field Course

This is THE practical field course on ground-water sampling. Students learn what factors influence the successful implementation of ground-water sampling programs and how to develop effective ground-water sampling protocols or how to update existing protocols in response to changes in…

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The Complete Surface-Water and Sediment Sampling Field Course

An important, but often overlooked component to many environmental contamination investigations is surface-water and sediment sampling. This practical, hands-on field course teaches you how to: select optimal locations for sample collection to ensure that data generated satisfy the objectives of…

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The Ground-Water Monitoring Well Design, Construction & Development Field Course

The key to success of any ground-water monitoring program is the effective placement, design and construction of ground-water monitoring wells. Ground-water monitoring wells and monitoring well networks must be designed to monitor site-specific compounds of interest and site-specific hydrogeologic conditions,…

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Who We Are

The Nielsen Environmental Field School was established in 1990 by David M. Nielsen (a hydrogeologist) and Gillian L. Nielsen (a hydrologist and aquatic biologist), who together have more than 60 years of practical field experience and more than 50 years of International teaching experience. Our goal is to provide environmental professionals with the highest level of practical, hands-on environmental field training to help them advance their careers. Our philosophy is the best way to learn field skills is to "learn by doing" from professionals who teach up-to-date technologies and methodologies in a clear and logical manner. Our training programs earn the highest praise from the toughest critics - your colleagues and peers. Read the testimonials of hundreds of past students to see why our courses are second to none.

What We Do

Practical, Hands-On, Open-Enrollment Field Training
We teach field courses in the Spring each year in San Diego, CA and Las Cruces, NM. Check out our current schedule.

The North American Environmental Field Conference & Exposition
The premier conference in the world on environmental site characterization, sampling, monitoring & remediation, held in San Diego, California and Tampa, Florida. To find out more about our February 7 - 10, 2012 Conference in San Diego, California and our March 13 - 16, 2012 Conference in Tampa, Florida visit the event web site: www.envirofieldconference.com.

On-Site Training
We travel all over the world to teach field courses for clients who call us in to their office to train their staff. Contact us today for a quote.

Publications
The definitive textbooks on Environmental Site Characterization, Ground-Water Monitoring and Ground-Water Sampling.

Technical Services
We conduct third party field audits of sampling teams and write SOPs for field practices for private and public sector clients

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Our Upcoming Events

The Environmental Sampling Field Course - COURSE NOW FULL
May 15 - 18 -- Columbus, OH

The Complete Soil Sampling Field Course - NEW COURSE DATE & LOCATION *
June 18 - 20, 2012 -- Calgary, Alberta

The Complete Ground-Water Sampling Field Course - NEW COURSE DATE & LOCATION
June 20 - 22, 2012 --Calgary, Alberta

*To register for either course in Calgary, contact Oak Environmental at frank@oakenv.com. Nielsen Environmental Field School is not handling registration for these 2 courses.