Current Courses

Courses are continually added in various locations throughout the year. Visit the Training Partners page of the Master Naturalist website to find out when a course may be offered in your area.

Click here for Florida County map. Each link below contains detailed course information.

Freshwater Systems

  • Brevard (1/4-2/9/19) Full. Contact instructor for wait list
  • Lake (2/25-4/1/19)
  • Sumter (3/6-4/17/19)

Coastal Systems

  • Charlotte (1/11-2/16/19)
  • Collier (12/3-12/17/18) Registration closed
  • Duval (2/25-3/14/19)
  • Lee (1/12-2/23/19)
  • Nassau (11/28-12/14/18) Registration closed

Upland Systems


Environmental Interpretation


Conservation Science

  • Duval (1/9-1/11/19) Full. Contact instructor for wait list

Wildlife Monitoring

  • No 2019 schedules have been submitted.

Habitat Evaluation


Coastal Shoreline Restoration

  • Miami-Dade (2/20-2/22/19) Registration will open next Tuesday




The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) is a federal-state-county partnership dedicated to developing knowledge in agriculture, human and natural resources, and the life sciences, and enhancing and sustaining the quality of human life by making that information accessible. While extending into every community of the state, UF/IFAS has developed a national and international reputation for its accomplishments in teaching, research and Extension.

UF/IFAS OCI

OCI stands for the Office of Conferences & Institutes. It is a full service conference planning agency at the University of Florida. OCI was created to support the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) mission to develop knowledge in agriculture, human and natural resources, and to make that knowledge available to people to sustain and enhance the quality of life.

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    Gainesville, FL 32611