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Job Description Watershed Restoration Specialist Posted: November 5, 2021 Applications Due: • We will accept and review the first round of applications by November 19, 2021. • We will accept and review the second round of applications by December 3, 2021. Location: Office located in Springfield, Oregon (office work is currently remote); fieldwork focuses on the McKenzie River Sub-basin Status: Hourly position (1.0 FTE, 40 hours/week), non-exempt Pay: $20/hr ($41,600/year) Benefits: Health insurance (medical and dental), paid time off, and SIMPLE IRA retirement plan Desired start date: Immediate, based on availability
A job posting for Idaho Water Board. One of our graduates got promoted. Way to go Adam!!!
This is only a sample of what you can do with our degree. Water Resource Agent. Nice place to work!!!
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2014 Behavior Based Energy Efficiency Study (BBEE)
In partnership with Oregon Military Department (OMD), Northwest Water and Energy Education Insitute (NWEEI), Springfield Utility Board (SUB), Strategic Energy Group (SEG) and th Bonneville Power Administration
In early April of 2014, a Behavior Based Energy Efficiency ("BBEE") study was launched at the Oregon Military's Lane County Readiness Center (also referred to as Lane Country Armed Forces Reserve Center) with funding provided by Bonneville Power Administration. The goal of this study was to achieve a 10% energy reduction in usage through the engagement of the occupants and operators of the facility with energy awareness and tools to empower them to prevent energy waste throughout the facility. The information provided here is in an effort to support future agencies considering similar inititves. • note that some information has been redacted and or omitted for security purposes.
The facility is approximately 145,000SF and was completed and certified as LEED GOLD in June 2009. The facility is fairly unique in that it is occupied by Oregon National Guard units and federal tenants, including; Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service, US Navy Reserves and US Marine Reserves.
This study is made possible due to the collaboration of several entities contributing funding, resources, and sharing experience and knowledge. The primary partners are:
Bonneville Power Administration: supply grant funding and oversight for the study
Springfield Utility Board: grant funds facilitator
Oregon Military Department: to plan, organize, and project management for the study and submit final report to BPA through SUB.
NWEEI: provide energy management services to OMD in the measurement and verification of the energy usage of the building, engagement activities, social media resources and final report documentation
Strategic Energy Group (SEG): provide contracted energy management services to OMD in BBEE study design, proprietary tools for baseline and monitoring and tracking changes in energy usage, operational assessment and engagement strategies and activities.
Project Overview
Photos
BBEE Materials
Several materials were created to help communicate to the building occupants.
Jeopardy Energy Game (parody)
We couldn't find a good little game that was appropriate for a group of adults (not aimed at k-12) so we created our own! You're welcome to download and modify it. The template was modified from one Chris Burly posted on http://krauseinnovationcenter.org/lesson-plan-in-a-box-powerpoint-jeopardy-template/ and uses powerpoint's native/simple abilities to navigate through the game.
Additional Instructions: Open and push play. Click to 3rd Slide, let the sound play. Click to 4th Slide and show the Game Board As you play the game, click on the YELLOW DOLLAR AMOUNT that the contestant calls, not the surrounding box. When the student answers, click anywhere on the screen to see the correct answer. IF YOU CLICK ON THE HOME ICON, poweroint will keep track of the topics already picked by dimming them. If you don't use the home button (aka. arrow keys or clicking on slide), it proceeds through the game but doesn't mark off the amount.
Creative Note: There is a great Jepardy maker called "Gameshow Maker" or "Jeopardy Maker" that can make flash .swf files to be served up via the web. Because the intention was to use this game in a social situation, it was never ported to the web -- but would be easy to do with this tool.
Nightwalkthrough Evaluation / Rating Cards - Good / Better / Best Office Workspace low cost Rating Cards
The plug leaf was lasercut/diecut which allowed each card color to show through. The cost of the lasercutting was offset by the low cost of the cards being able to be produced in black and white on an inexpesive copier machine while still giving a unique personailzed card.
In partnership with Oregon Military Department (OMD), Northwest Water and Energy Education Insitute (NWEEI)
In early April of 2014, a Behavior Based Energy Efficiency ("BBEE") grant for a BBEE study was conducted at the Oregon Military's Lane County Readiness Center. The goal of this study was to achieve a 10% energy reduction in usage through the engagement of the occupants and operators of the facility with energy awareness and tools to empower them to prevent energy waste throughout the facility.
This study is made possible due to the collaboration of several entities contributing funding, resources, and sharing experience and knowledge. The primary partners are:
Bonneville Power Administration: supply grant funding and oversight for the study
Springfield Utility Board: grant funds facilitator
Oregon Military Department: to plan, organize, and project management for the study and submit final report to BPA through SUB.
NWEEI: provide energy management services to OMD in the measurement and verification of the energy usage of the building, engagement activities, social media resources and final report documentation
Strategic Energy Group (SEG): provide contracted energy management services to OMD in BBEE study design, proprietary tools for baseline and monitoring and tracking changes in energy usage, operational assessment and engagement strategies and activities.
Every year we come in contact with an increasing amount of amazing resources that can be used within the classroom, training facilities and even our personal lives. The difficulty of course is, how do we share some of those resources without overwhelming folks? How can we organize things into useful categories and keep things up to date without spending an exhaustive amount of time and effort?
We're still examining a couple of ways to accomplish this including custom plugin's that would allow a rating system, user comments, searchable categories, tags... and the list goes on. Until then: Use the Article Index (visually located to your RIGHT) to jump to a different section you might be interested in.
Compact Energy Management Auditing Toolkit - V2 The selection of tools for this kit have been built upon our experiences with students and feedback from energy auditor professionals within the industry. It is by no means a complete exhaustive auditing kit but is comprehensive enough to accurately measure, verify and demonstrate energy usage within buildings.
Energy Management Auditing Toolkit - V1 Multichannel Datalogger An older version of the tool kit above, this kit is also designed to provide the tools necessary to accurately measure energy flow within a building. The major difference is in the switch of technology from a multi-channel serial device datalogger to a smaller footprint USB datalogger. There are some advantages to using the HOBOPro dataloggers namely the ability to use many different sensor types along with the amount of channels available.
Basic Energy Auditing Tool Bag A bare minimal field toolkit for taking out on audit (pre-datalogging). It doesn't include a lot of handy items but is a starting point for most basic conditions.
Sample Workbook for Energy Educators -- a comprehensive 2yr EM Program Overview What is this workbook/guidebook for? One of the difficulties in creating a quality degree program is selecting the collection of classes that not only teach students specific skills but also provides them with an understanding of their targeted industry. We have the expertise and the historic perspective of successfully running these types of Energy and Water programs since 1980. This booklet provides an example and not the definitive rule of what a comprehensive 2-year AAS Degree program should contain.
Magnetic Ballast Flicker Checker - Bruce Alford demonstrates the flicker checker and the observed visual effect when viewed under a magnetic ballast with T12 lamps. The flicker checker can potentially be used to detect a bad driver component within LED lighting as the visual strobing effect operates under the same principals (see: http://www.envisionlighting.com). An quick informational help sheet can be downloaded from e3: e3 FlickerChecker Helpsheet
Penthouse HVAC Tour - Roger walks students through an air handler as part of their lab activities required for class. The Penthouse is located atop one of the buildings on Lane Community College campus and is also a location for datalogging activities. ** Note: In assisting program start-ups around the country, we encourage the use of campus buildings as learning laboratories because they typically contain many (if not all) of the system types that students find out in the field.**
Oakridge Elementary School - Biomass Boiler Visitation with Bill Krei Oakridge Elementary school has recently installed a new biomass boiler system to run as the principal source of heat for the building. The system is expected to save the school over $20,000 a year in heating bills. This video was created to give a quick look behind the scenes at how the system is setup and installed as well as some of the technical details of the project.
Presentation Slides: Grant Approach Below are the slides from the presentation using google embedded docs.
5 minutes of Fame - Moodle & Online Classes A quick video summarizing efforts in creating online classes for Energy Management.
Simplified Cooling Load Calculation
Curriculum Resources
Professionally produced Weatherization Videos for Residential Energy WxTV is a national weatherization training show that uses a blend of expert advice, how-to techniques, innovation, and reality TV to create entertainment-based learning. The show was developed in 2010 by the Montana Weatherization Training Center, part of Montana State University – Extension Housing and Environmental Health, with funding support from a partnership between Exxon Mobil and the National Community Action Foundation.
Episodes range 12-15 minutes in length and are filmed around the country by WxTV film crews and often by weatherization crews themselves, in the field, showcasing their know-how. WxTV brings together differing techniques from hot, cold, humid, and arid environments, opening a dialogue for crews to debate the best way to accomplish weatherization tasks under varying conditions. http://wxtvonline.org/
NTER - the National Training & Education Resource is an easy-to-access, open source, web-based learning platform that enables learners, instructors, and organizations to be part of an education community. It currently has several energy specific offerings and materials that can be used in class including: Process Heating, Photovoltaic Online Training For Code Officials, (WXOT) Weatherization Installer Course, (WXOT) Weatherization Crew Chief Course, Sustainable Environmental Stewardship, Building Science Basics, Energy Industry Fundamentals They also have a virtual blower door simulator! https://www.nterlearning.org/
EPA / Energy Star - Guidelines for Energy Management EPA offers a proven strategy for superior energy management with tools and resources to help each step of the way. Based on the successful practices of ENERGY STAR partners, these guidelines for energy management can assist your organization in improving its energy and financial performance while distinguishing your organization as an environmental leader. http://www.energystar.gov/
NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology Standards for the Smart Grid, energy efficient lighting, photovoltaics, net-zero-energy buildings, software for "smart" building, these a few of the many NIST research areas related to energy use and conservation. The Institute develops the testing, measurements, and reference materials needed to ensure the quality of energy-related products and services and ensure fairness in the marketplace. http://www.nist.gov/energy-portal.cfm
SEED - Sustainability Education and Economic Development A FREE initiative of the American Association of Community Colleges and ecoAmerica, the Sustainability Education and Economic Development (SEED) Center aims to advance sustainability and green workforce development practices at community colleges by sharing innovative models and resources and building the capacity of college administrators, faculty, and staff to contribute as leaders.
SEED Offers:
Over 500 green curricular and other resources curated by industry and higher education experts.
Detailed guides, toolkits and promising practices for two-year college faculty, staff, and leaders
Professional development opportunities, including workshops, webinars, and mentoring sessions (Coming in 2012)
ATEEC - Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center ATEEC, pronounced "A-Tech," is a National Center of Excellence funded in part by the National Science Foundation. There are currently over 300 searchable and free curriculum downloads available. Much of the material was developed for k-12 but higher educational content is increasely becoming available. http://ateec.org/
DOE - Department of Energy From resources for research papers to step-by-step science project plans, there truly is a wealth of information on efficiency and renewables available on the Internet, much of which is categorized by age group to ensure that students are able to view content appropriate to their level of understanding.
But students aren't the only ones who can benefit from online energy resources. Teachers searching for lesson plans or classroom activities on energy-related topics have a treasure trove of web-based information to choose from. So, whether you're a student with an inquiring mind and a burning energy question or an educator teaching a classroom full of inquiring minds, the following websites should help to put you on the right track. http://energy.gov/energysaver/articles/energy-resources-students-and-teachers
DOE2.com - Home of eQuest eQUEST® is a sophisticated, yet easy to use, freeware building energy use analysis tool that provides professional-level results with an affordable level of effort. eQUEST was designed to allow you to perform detailed comparative analysis of building designs and technologies by applying sophisticated building energy use simulation techniques but without requiring extensive experience in the "art" of building performance modeling.
USGBC - The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) USGBC works toward its mission of market transformation through its LEED green building program, robust educational offerings, a nationwide network of chapters and affiliates, the annual Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, and advocacy in support of public policy that encourages and enables green buildings and communities. USGBC offers a wealth of educational resources including: Students Guide to Transforming Your Campus, Community and Career, Green Existing Schools Project Management Guide, Green Existing Schools Implementation Workbook, Advanced Energy Design Guides for K12 School Buildings. http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=127
ACCA - Air Conditioning Contractors of America ACCA is a non-profit association serving more than 60,000 professionals and 4,000 businesses in the HVACR community, working together to promote professional contracting, energy efficiency, and healthy, comfortable indoor environments. Our roots stretch back to the early part of the 20th century, and the organization was incorporated in its present form over 40 years ago. https://www.acca.org/education or https://www.acca.org/store/category.php?cid=37
Products & Services We Use (What keeps us ticking?)
Services
SonicFoundry's Mediasite Lecture Capture System (software & hardware) Unique video presentation of lecture material (video and slides) Mediasite Player gives students, employees and stakeholders the most engaging and flexible online experience to watch lectures and webcasts – unconstrained by viewing device or traditional webcast layouts. It also gives us a way to simultaneously capture a computer screen (or other vga device) and video with both the content sources synced up. Other features include: User-controlled layout, Flexible navigation, Powerful search, Interaction, Crystal clear images | High-resolution slides (up to 2048 x 1536), Embeddable Players, Accessibility friendly.
Join.me Screen Casting & online meetings / screen sharing/control used for Tutoring / Class Support Instant screen sharing. Instant Aha! (and works GREAT!) Gets everybody on the same page, when they're not in the same room, instantly. Review documents and designs. Train students. Demo products or just show off. join.me is a ridiculously simple screen sharing tool for meetings on the fly. Highlights: *FREE VERSION* and paid. (students can use this at home or student to student!) internet calling, screen sharing, 250 viewers, share control, multi-monitor, chat, send files, viewer: iPad/iPhone or Android
Vimeo.com- Low cost video publishing/streaming service provider. No ads and secure content delivery through domain name lock. Change the way the player looks and offer up private review pages when developing content with multiple people. Vimeo was founded by a group of filmmakers who wanted to share their creative work and personal moments from their lives. As time went on, likeminded people discovered Vimeo and helped build a supportive community of individuals with a wide range of passions. Free and Paid Versions WITHOUT ADVERTSING.
Software
Clipwrap - re-wrap AVCHD into .mov editable mp4's h.264 without re-encoding.
MPEG Streamclip (PC/MAC) - MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL.
Camtasia Screencapture Software - Lecture video/audio capture with laptop pc or mac. Great to use with calculations or screen demos. Make videos like Khan Academy! Auto-zoom feature based upon mouse location/clicks is highly utilized.
Quicktime Pro (ver7 NOT v10) - Low Cost ($30) PC & Mac compatible software that makes basic super fast edits, clips without intensive video processing required and re-encoding battles.
Acrobat Pro - Nearly every report and technical document uses a .pdf format. Acrobat is used primary for pdf optimization, simple edits and page extraction. Although there are other editors, Adobe has maintained a very good feature set. (costs are $$$$)
MindView - PC/Mac (mac = crippled version compared to PC). The only product that we know of that allows you to collect all the documents linked from within a mind map with 1 click. Much more then organizational charts, you can tie external documents and even calculated charts into branches, and re-distribute that information with all supporting documents kept in their native formats.
Hardware
HQ Video Camera - Panasonic AVCHD HMC150 - We entered the market just on the cusp of AVCHD professional cameras being available at a reasonable price. The HMC150 has worked excellent for all of our needs and then some. Solid design and well built components. 3 years after purchasing, we haven't seen a single glitch and have recorded over 400 hours of footage.
Canon TI - SLR Digital Camera - Don't be fooled by the small camera ads. This camera works best and hasn't failed in performing as a great visual content capture device. Works far better then a 'point+shoot' especially in low light (often found in mechanical rooms!)
Flip Camera - Decent HD quality videos in the palm of your hand coupled with a low cost you can't argue with. Too bad they're no longer around!!
Apple Computer - Rock solid. Better performance for multitasking. Virtual Environments (winxp & vista).
Wacom tablets - Professional grade surfaces and pens allows for digital entry of diagrams and hand written examples. Pens do NOT need batteries along with many other benefits over current competitors.
Lacie drives (2-terabyte or more) - Many companies to choose from for storage solutions but LaCie has previously proven to be solid and fast. Supports multiple connection types including USB 3, Firewire 800, eSATA.
Video Conferencing - When it works, it's great. When it doesn't, it is incrediably frustrating and instantly causes chaos and annoyance (worse then cell phone interference). We've had good luck using older TANDBERG (now part of cisco) units along with some of the newer LifeSize room. We've also dabbled into software codec versions that support 323 protocols with limited attempts and some general success. We've run 2 years worth of conferences using a TANDBERG Codian Bridge with excellent and consistent results. The calls were from east coast to west coast and connected 3 different types of video conferencing systems (lifesize, tandberg, polycom). The three major drawbacks we see are:
1) Cost - expect to pay $10,000 or more for one site
2) Bandwidth - if you don't have enough speed, it doesn't matter which equipment you buy
3) Incompatibilities with software video conferencing (skype, web based) Can't connect the two without expensive video bridging $60-80k!.
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