Training Opportunities

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The following table summarizes the online training opportunities that are referenced on this website. Additional resources can be found on the Best Practices Resources and Other Resources pages.

Author	Title	Date
ASDSO	Technical Seminar: Basic Soil Mechanics Related to Earth Dams	Recurring
ASDSO	Technical Seminar: Dam Construction and Inspection	Recurring
ASDSO	Technical Seminar: Design and Technical Specifications Review	Recurring
ASDSO	Technical Seminar: Earthquake Engineering for Embankment Dams	Recurring
ASDSO	Technical Seminar: Fundamentals of Reinforced Concrete Design of Hydraulic Structures	Recurring
ASDSO	Technical Seminar: HEC-HMS with Application to Dam Safety	Recurring
ASDSO	Technical Seminar: HEC-RAS	Recurring
ASDSO	Technical Seminar: HEC-RAS 2D	Recurring
ASDSO	Technical Seminar: Improving Emergency Operations for Dam and Levee Failures and Incidents	Recurring
ASDSO	Technical Seminar: Inspection and Assessment of Dams	Recurring
ASDSO	Technical Seminar: Seepage Through Earth Dams	Recurring
ASDSO	Technical Seminar: Stability Analysis of Embankment Dams	Recurring
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar : A Perfect Storm of Flawed Judgments and Decisions	2023
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar : Rock Grouting Principles for New and Remedial Dam Projects	2023
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar : Site Investigation and Parameter Development for Seismic Deformation Analyses of Embankment Dams and Levees	2023
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar : Sliplining Low-Level Conduits	2023
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar : Spillway Gates and Dewatering Systems - Lessons Learned and Practical Solutions	2023
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar : Understanding Static Liquefaction	2023
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Concrete Construction - Issues and Remedies	2022
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Extreme Precipitation and Dam Safety in a Changing Climate	2022
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Findings of the Independent Forensic Investigation of the Failures of Edenville and Sanford Dams, Michigan	2022
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Inspection and Assessment of Spillways	2022
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Rehabilitation of NRCS Watershed Structures – A Consultant’s Perspective	2022
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Specialty Construction Techniques for Foundation Improvement and Seepage Reduction	2022
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: The History of Dam Safety Governance in the US Including Risk Analysis	2022
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Current Trends in the Seismic Analysis of Embankment Dams	2021
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Drilling Plans and Hazard Evaluations for Dams and Levees	2021
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Fundamentals of Concrete Construction Inspections for Dams and Appurtenant Structures	2021
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Inlet and Outlet Hydraulics for Spillways and Outlet Structures	2021
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Introduction to Spillway Gates	2021
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Stream Management for Dam Construction	2021
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Understanding and Managing Plant and Animal Intrusions in Embankment Dams and Levees – II	2021
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Uplift and Drainage for Concrete Dams and Spillways	2021
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Use of Remote Sensing in Dam Safety-Including Drones	2021
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Use of Underwater Remote Systems in Dam Safety	2021
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: What Can I Really Expect to Get Out of a Semi-Quantitative Risk Analyses (SQRA)?	2021
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Concrete Repair and Maintenance for Dams	2020
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Delhi Dam – A Compound Failure	2020
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Filters and Drainage Systems for Embankment Dams	2020
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Judgment and Decision-Making in Dam Engineering	2020
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Low-Level Conduits – What Can Go Wrong, How to Inspect, How to Repair?	2020
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Putting Public Safety First – The Oroville Dam Spillways Emergency Recovery	2020
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Responding to Dam Emergencies	2020
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Rock Scour Assessment for Dams, Spillways and other Water Conveyance Structures	2020
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Teton Dam – The Failure That Changed an Industry	2020
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: The 1979 Machhu Dam Disaster: Social Origins and Social Consequences	2020
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: The State of the Practice and Future of Dam Breach Modeling	2020
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Best Management Practices for Waterstop Selection, Installation, and Inspection	2019
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Dam Overtopping Protection Systems Part I	2019
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Dam Overtopping Protection Systems Part 2	2019
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Internal Erosion – Applying Erosion Mechanics From ICOLD Bulletin 164 In Internal Erosion Failure Mode Analyses	2019
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Intro to Cavitation in Chutes and Spillways	2019
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Intro to Post-Tensioned Anchors for Dams	2019
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Lawn Lake Dam: Pre-Failure Comprehensive Dam Safety Evaluation and Post Failure Impacts	2019
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Relearning How to Look at Piezometric Data for Seepage Evaluation	2019
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: WinDAM - Overtopping and Internal Erosion for Earthen Embankments	2019
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Analysis of Concrete Arch Dams	2018
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Designing Spillways to Mitigate Failure Modes	2018
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Drone Technology Integrated into Dam Safety Inspections and Evaluations	2018
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Evaluation and Maintenance of Piezometers, Relief Wells, and Drains in Dams and Levees	2018
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Findings of the Oroville Dam Spillway Forensic Investigation	2018
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: How to Conduct a Successful PFMA - Lessons Learned from Past Successes and Failures	2018
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Human Factors in the Oroville Dam Spillway Incident	2018
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Managing Increased Dam Safety Risk During Reconstruction	2018
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Reexamination of the 2004 Failure of Big Bay Dam, Mississippi	2018
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Risk Communication for Dams	2018
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Why Embankments Crack and How to Fix Them	2018
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Advances in Geologic Data Collection and 3D Geologic Modeling for Site Characterization and Safety Studies for Dams and Levees	2017
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Design of Siphon Systems	2017
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: HEC-RAS 2D Modeling	2017
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: How to Make Your Emergency Action Plan More Effective	2017
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Introduction to Addressing Inadequate Conveyance Capacity at Dams	2017
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Introduction to Embankment Dams	2017
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Introduction to Nature-Like Fishways for Dams	2017
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Natural Resources Conservation Service Dam Design and Dam Safety Resources: Policy, Procedures, and Tools	2017
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Risk Assessment for Levee Projects	2017
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: The Fontenelle Dam Incident 1965	2017
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Underwater Installation of Geomembranes	2017
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: 3-D Effects on Estimation of Gradients, Seepage Flows and Evaluation of Internal Erosion Potential Failure Modes	2016
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Cracking and Hydraulic Fracturing in Embankment Dams and Levees	2016
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Dam Safety with 3D Weirs	2016
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Foundation Cutoff Walls for Dams and Levees	2016
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Hydrologic Hazards – Estimating Probabilities of Extreme Floods	2016
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Intro to Tailings Dam and Coal Ash Impoundment Design, Construction and Monitoring: What Can Go Wrong and Right?	2016
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Intro to the Application of 2D Hydraulic Modeling for Dam and Levee Safety	2016
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Introduction to Dam Decommissioning	2016
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Spillway Conduits - More Than Just a Pipe Through the Dam	2016
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Strength Selection for Static Slope Stability Analysis	2016
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: The Practical Use of Geophysics to Assess Dam and Levee Safety	2016
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Dam Construction Quality Control: Dos, Dont's and Lessons Learned	2015
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Designing Slope Protection for Dams and Levees	2015
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Event Tree Principles and Applications for Dam Safety Risk Assessment	2015
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Human Factors in Dam Failure and Safety	2015
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Introduction to Hydrologic Modeling Using Geospatial Information	2015
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Introduction to Public Safety Risk Evaluation and Treatment for Dams and Levees	2015
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Rainfall and Dam Safety-From PMP to the 100-Year Storm	2015
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Seepage Rehabilitation for Embankment Dams	2015
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Seismic Stability Evaluation of Earth Dams	2015
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Understanding and Managing Plant & Animal Intrusions in Embankment Dams and Levees	2015
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Waterproofing Systems for Dams	2015
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Application of PFMA in Dam Safety	2014
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Developing Operations and Maintenance Manuals for Dams	2014
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Earthquake Hazards, Ground Motions and Dynamic Response	2014
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Foundation Preparation and Treatment for Dam Construction	2014
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: How to Communicate Effectively in Any Situation	2014
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Introduction to Armoring Embankment Dams and Earth-Cut Spillways with ACBs	2014
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Potential Failure Mode Analysis as a Dam Safety Tool Part I: Introduction to PFMA	2014
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Quality Assurance and Field Inspection for Dam Construction Projects	2014
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Rehabilitation of Concrete Dams	2014
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Seepage Monitoring and Analysis of Embankment Dams	2014
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Stepped Chute Spillway Design for Embankment Dams	2014
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Evaluation of Seepage Related Potential Failure Modes (PFM's) in Embankments with Emphasis on Outlet Penetrations	2013
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Hydraulic Design of Labyrinth Weirs	2013
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Identifying Hazards and Improving Public Safety at Low Head Dams	2013
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Internal Drainage Systems for Embankment Dams	2013
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Loss of Life Consequence Assessment for Dam Failure Scenarios	2013
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: RCC Applications in Dam Engineering - What We Have Learned and What's New	2013
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Stability Evaluations of Concrete Dams	2013
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Terminal Structures and Energy Dissipation at Outlet Works and Spillways	2013
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Tolerable Risk Guidelines for Dams: How Safe is Safe Enough	2013
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Using Instrumentation for Dam Safety Monitoring	2013
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Emergency Action Plan Basics	2012
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Field Investigations for New and Existing Dams	2012
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Hydraulics 201 for Dam Safety	2012
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Hydrology 201 for Dam Safety	2012
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Introduction to Concrete Gravity Dams	2012
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Introduction to Earth Spillway Design and Evaluation	2012
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Introduction to Grouting for Dams	2012
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Introduction to Physical Modeling of Spillways for Dams	2012
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: PMP and the History of HMRs	2012
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Structural Condition Assessment of Dam Facilities with Non-Destructive Evaluation Methods	2012
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Filter Design History and a One-Step Design Process	2011
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Hydraulics 101: Intro to Hydraulics for Dam Safety	2011
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Risk Assessment Basics for an Individual Dam	2011
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Risk Management for a Portfolio of Dams	2011
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Roller Compacted Concrete - Design and Construction of Water Control Structures	2011
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Hydrology 101 for Dam Safety	2011
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Empirical Estimates of Permeability for Earth Dam Projects	2010
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Guidelines for Assigning Erodibility Parameters to Soil Horizons for SITES Analyses	2010
ASDSO	On-Demand Webinar: Pitfalls in Quality Control Processes for Compacted Earth Fill	2010
USACE	Fundamental Dam and Levee Safety Training	Recurring