What We Do

Environmental experts, high-definition video, and a real data platform — brought together to deliver a genuinely superior environmental training experience.

We know your time is valuable, and when you choose to study you'd like to do it at your own pace, at a time that suits you. Countryside Management Training offers a wide range of bespoke courses tailored to be delivered online. We use HD video and expert-written content to deliver the topics you choose to study, through an easy-to-use interface that lets you work through the content and save your progress as you go.

CMT online courses introduce you to a range of countryside management methods, from water quality analysis and surveying techniques to complete catchment assessment. Our online training provides maximum benefit for minimum resources — engaging, thorough, and able to be tailored to your needs. All sectors, from farming to citizen volunteers, can use the training, which offers a wide range of content.

Brings together environmental experts, high-definition video & photography, and state of the art technology to provide a superior environmental training experience.

Our approach

One River Catchment, Six Interconnected Fields

Every course we teach traces back to the same starting point — the health of a river catchment. Here's how the pieces connect.

Fauna Flora Stream Enhancement & Mitigations Streams, Rivers & Lakes Pollution Impact & Sources Ecosystems River Catchment CAS Survey Training Mapping of survey data Water Sampling SSRS Survey Training Water quality mapping Health & Safety

See the full topic-by-topic breakdown of every field, and every course, on the Courses page.

Online Course & Web Platform

Built around your schedule, not the other way around.

  • Build skills and subject knowledge whenever it's most convenient for you
  • Pick up exactly where you left off, with progress visible on your dashboard
  • No need to travel to venues — available all year round, whatever the weather or river levels
  • Repeat any unit as often as you like, with multiple-choice checks along the way
  • For the Advanced course, progress and assessment are monitored through the web platform
  • Courses can be tailored to the needs of groups or organisations
A surveyor sealing a labelled water sample bottle beside a river
Beyond the courses

River Catchment Quality Platform

Our survey app is a real, installable app already in active use — surveyors record SSRS and CAS data directly in the field, with no signal required. It works fully offline once you're signed in, and syncs everything automatically the moment you're back online.

Works completely offline

Once you're signed in, fill out a full SSRS or CAS survey anywhere — no signal required, out on the riverbank or deep in a catchment.

Syncs automatically

The moment you're back online, every submission syncs in the background — nothing to remember, nothing lost.

Correlating the picture

We're actively developing how that data comes together over time — correlating results across a catchment to reveal real trends, not just single readings.

The real SSRS survey form in our catchment survey app, showing River, Station No, Stream Order, and Site Location fields with GPS capture
Real app, installable on any device
Offline-first field data capture

See the full breadth of what we teach

From river morphology to macroinvertebrate identification — explore every course we offer.

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