Ohio Rapid Assessment Method (ORAM) for Wetlands Can you easily evaluate the condition of the car you are driving? Is it in excellent, very good, good, fair or poor condition? There are rapid ways to determine that based on answers to a set of questions posted on the Kelley Blue Book website. The Ohio Rapid Assessment Method for Wetlands (ORAM) does the same type of rapid assessment for wetlands only it is providing a reading on ecological condition rather than mechanical and cosmetic conditions. If it is important to you to know the ecological condition or correct category assignment of a wetland then you want to take the Midwest Biodiversity Institute’s ORAM training. ORAM is an assessment method that involves users scoring questions, known as metrics, about the wetland in ways that are standardized based on a set of protocols. Once all the metrics are scored they are added together to provide the ORAM score. Based on break points in the ORAM scores we can determine whether a wetland is in excellent, good, fair, or poor ecological condition. ORAM was primarily designed to provide the ability to rapidly place a wetland in the appropriate antidegradation category for permit applications authorizing dredge and fill activities in Ohio. However, it is has also shown to be an outstanding method for evaluating the ecological condition of wetlands and serves as a model for both types of these tools across the country. Our instructor was involved in the development of ORAM and has trained hundreds of environmental professionals in its use over the past 13 years. Take MBI’s training course and you will gain the knowledge needed to have confidence in your ORAM evaluations for both category assignments and ecological assessments. mbieducation/course.php?course=1006
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 15:06:08 +0000
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