About Us

The Nielsen Environmental Field School was created in 1990 in response to a demand from the environmental industry for practically oriented, hands-on environmental field training. The Nielsen Environmental Field School's principals and key instructors, David M. Nielsen and Gillian L. Nielsen, possess a unique combination of more than 60 years of field experience and more than 50 years of international teaching experience.

The Nielsen Environmental Field School develops and instructs environmental field training courses in the U.S. and internationally (we've taught courses in Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, England and Australia). Courses are held in the U.S. on an open-enrollment basis during the Spring of each year.

If you have a group of 10 or more people, it is often more cost-effective to bring the Nielsen Environmental Field School to your office to train your staff than it is to send the same staff off-site for training. By bringing the Nielsen Environmental Field School to your office and field site to conduct an on-site training program, it is possible to develop a customized training program that focuses on the issues of particular interest to your group and to have candid discussions about these issues in the privacy of your own facilities. We reserve the Summer and Fall months of the year to teach on-site courses for our clients across the U.S. and internationally.

Our courses are designed to meet the educational needs of:

• Environmental consultants and contractors
• Environmental laboratory field staff
• Industry environmental staff (petroleum, chemical, utility, mining, manufacturing, transportation and other industries)
• Landfill owners, operators and field staff
• DOD and DOE environmental staff and contractors
• Government regulatory agency environmental staff (Federal, State, Provincial, Regional, County, City)
• Non-regulatory government agency environmental staff
• Tribal environmental staff

Learn about the types of companies that have participated in our open-enrollment and on-site field training courses by visiting our Client List!