January is the last chance to register for NatCap's Annual Meeting and Training at a reduced rate. Starting February 1st, the price to attend the training will increase from $400 to $550. A few scholarships are still available if the registration fee is prohibitive for your budget. Just make sure to apply by January 15th to ensure your application will be considered. It's going to be a great event--we hope to see you there! 

NatCap is dedicated to help you use our approach and tools by providing a number of resources online.  Our website always hosts the latest version of InVEST and RIOS, a complete user guide, previous case studies, publications, and highlights from past training events including presentations and videos. We recently updated our InVEST in Practice series, which provides step-by-step guidance for how to use our tools in different decision contexts including climate adaptation, marine spatial planning and strategic environmental assessment. NatCap also provides user support through an actively maintained online user forum. This is the best way to obtain one-on-one support for any software issue or general project questions you may have.  

Our Annual Meeting and Training, held each spring at Stanford, is an excellent opportunity to hone your skills, learn from our growing international community about applications, new tools, and initiatives, and receive support from our entire team. In-person trainings are also available several times a year at various locations around the world, which are announced in our newsletter and on our website. Finally, we are excited to be launching an online course in late February through Stanford's EdX Studio platform.  Please visit our website next month to register as a participant in this free introductory course. If none of our planned trainings meet your needs, on occasion arrangements for a more in-depth collaboration with NatCap can be made for you to host a training suited to your needs, where we can provide assistance and consultation for running models and analyzing, visualizing and interpreting results.