Since 1967, Stroud™ Water Research Center has focused on one thing — fresh water. We seek to advance knowledge and stewardship of freshwater systems through global research, education, and watershed restoration.
What We Do
Future of Fresh Water Initiative
Goal: $20 Million
Nowhere else in the world is there an organization like Stroud Water Research Center, which has spent 51 years focused on understanding, preserving, and protecting fresh water. To strengthen ongoing research and to expand community empowerment programs to protect clean fresh water regionally and around the world, the Stroud Center has announced its Future of Fresh Water Initiative.
Help us reach our goal. Give to the Future of Fresh Water Initiative. Gifts to the Executive Director’s Fund and the Environmental Education Fund will be DOUBLED thanks to generous challenge grants!
Latest News
Job Opportunity: Data Analyst
$50,000 Challenge Match Grant Generously Sponsored by the Colket Family Foundation
Coronavirus Update
A Message From Dave Arscott, Executive Director of Stroud Water Research Center
A Living Legacy: Stroud Water Research Center Celebrates the Life of Chief Quiet Thunder
Grateful, Even in This Difficult Year
Creek Critters a Finalist for Excellence in Hands-On Science Book Award
Pennsylvania Establishes a Soil Health Coalition
Featured Initiatives and Partnerships
WikiWatershed® web tools offer watershed data visualization, geospatial analysis capabilities, and science-based predictions of human impacts on stormwater runoff and water quality.
EnviroDIY™ is a community where members ask and answer questions and network within interest groups to develop do-it-yourself environmental science and monitoring devices.
The Leaf Pack Network® is an international network of teachers, students, and citizen monitors using a simple experiment to determine the health of their local streams.
The Water Quality mobile app is a water-monitoring data-collection and learning tool designed for use by educators and their students, citizen scientists, and researchers.
The Society for Freshwater Science Taxonomic Certification Program ensures skilled persons are providing aquatic invertebrate identifications in North America.
The Consortium for Scientific Assistance to Watersheds provides free technical assistance to Pennsylvania-based watershed and conservation organizations.
Upcoming Events
We are excited to announce a new soil health coalition with partners throughout the state! Full link in bio.
This photo of John Chibirka was taken back when we could gather without masks. He's standing in a soil pit to demonstrate how soil health practices have influenced crop rooting depth, earthworm activity, soil structure, and organic carbon levels.
#HealthySoilsForHealthyWatersheds
#FreshWaterMatters2Us
#Restoration #ScienceGoesOn
This #GivingTuesday know that your gift not only helps to educate the next generation of scientists but also helps us to ensure the future of fresh water is bright!
Please consider a gift today!! Link in bio!
#thefutureoffreshwaterbeginshere #FreshWaterForAll #FreshWaterMatters2Us #Education #Research #Restoration
Today we are immeasurably thankful for Chief Quiet Thunder, late tribal chief of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape tribe.
Often surrounded by hundreds of handcrafted cultural items, this self-described “peaceful warrior” touched the lives of thousands of youth and adults—including our own staff and students at the annual Brandywine Watershed Discovery Day Camp. Generations to come will feel the lasting impacts of his authentic oral storytelling, his interactive music-making, the enduring wisdom of the native Lenni-Lenape, and his profound passion for the Earth. The Stroud Center extends its deepest condolences to the chief's loved ones. 🔗 in bio to read our full tribute, purchase Quiet Thunder's recent book, and learn more about the indigenous Lenni-Lenape
#NanticokeLenniLenape #Lenape #NAHeritageMonth
“Forever on Thanksgiving Day, the heart will find the pathway home.” ~ Wilbur D. Nesbit
Wishing everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Making it rain!! Check out our rainfall simulator which helps us to measure infiltration rates of different types of soils in farm fields.
#Research #FreshWaterMatters2Us #SoilHealth #HealthySoilsForHealthyWatersheds
Occasionally we have field work that requires us to work in close proximity with someone else, like installing a lead line for an acoustic doppler current profiler to get an idea of the shape of the stream bed, so we recruit spouses to become techs for the day!! #COVIDYear
#Research #FreshWaterMatters2Us #ScienceGoesOn
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