Since 1967, Stroudโข Water Research Center has focused on one thing โ 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 Directorโs Fund and the Environmental Education Fund will be DOUBLED thanks to generous challenge grants!
Latest News
Summer Internship Opportunity: NSF REU in Watershed Biogeochemistry
Summer Internship Opportunity: Communications and Development
Employment Opportunity: Development Director
Summer Internship Opportunity: Ecosystems
Summer Internship Opportunity: Entomology
A Message From the Executive Director Regarding the Importance of Racial Equity and Justice
Uncharted WATERS: sustaining a meaningful student teaching experience amidst a global pandemic via an online STEM curriculum
Oxygen Not Behind Threat To Mayflies When Temps Rise
Full STEAM Ahead: Delivering Education Programming to Girlsโ Doorsteps
Featured Initiatives and Partnerships
WikiWatershedยฎ web tools offer watershed data visualization, geospatial analysis capabilities, and science-based predictions of human impacts on stormwater runoff and water quality.
EnviroDIYโข 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 Networkยฎ is an international network of teachers, students, and citizen monitors usingย a simple experiment toย determine the health of their local streams.
Theย Water Qualityย 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 freeย technical assistance to Pennsylvania-based watershed and conservation organizations.
Upcoming Events
It's #internationalwomensday2021
We like to think that our co-founders, Joan Stroud and Dr. Ruth Patrick, would give a round of applause to all of the amazing women impacting our research today.
This photo of soil health coordinator Lisa Blazure sums it up pretty well! She's conducting research (infiltration rates on soils with cover crops) to help us gather data on the impacts of soil health on water quality. This will be used to educate farmers and the public how best management practices can impact water quality.
#Research #Restoration #Farmers #Education #girlswhoscience #FreshWaterMatters2Us
New equipment day is always a fun day at the lab! Here our Ecosystems Ecology PI and his grad student are using the Macro Manipulator for the first time! This tiny instrument detects oxygen levels. They are using it to see how sediment disrupts oxygen levels during a storm event.
#freshwatermatters2us #Science #Research
This #WomensHistoryMonth and #WCW, we're spotlighting Research Technician Stephanie Bernasconi from our ecosystem ecology group! After earning her M.S. from Louisiana State University, where she studied the effects of suspended solids on oysters, Stephanie now collects and analyzes water samples and sediment cores from around the world. ๐ฆ ๐ฉโ๐ฌ๐ช #LookUptoHer #WomeninSTEM
๐ in bio to learn more about her messy but data-driven adventures in marine biology, environmental education, and freshwater ecology!
It's #ReadingAcrossAmerica day and Dr. Seuss's birthday, so we are celebrating with a few favs from our library. If you haven't yet picked up Creek Critters, the Stroud Center's collaboration with Jennifer Keats Curtis and @arbordalekids you should!! ๐๐๐ ๐ on where to purchase Creek Critters (in English or Spanish!) in bio.
#freshwatermatters2us #CreekCritters
Snow covered SE PA got you like โน๏ธโน๏ธโน๏ธ? Just remember the importance of snow for recharging our groundwater!
"Forests and snowpacks together allow for recharge of underground aquifers that consist of 80 trillion gallons of freshwater stored in the pore spaces and cracks in rock beneath the surface. These aquifers serve to maintain the flow of streams throughout the year and provide water that supports industries, businesses, agriculture, and drinking water for millions of Pennsylvania residents." Check out full article in link in bio!
#FreshWaterMatters2Us
Today we celebrate what would have been the 104th birthday of W.B. Dixon Stroud Sr. We affectionately call today Founders' Day in his memory and usually celebrate all of our co-founders by sharing a potluck lunch filled with cherry dishes.
This year, we are sharing our best cherry creations via Zoom. Not just food, but scroll through to see artwork by Lisa Blazure from our restoration team.
#FoundersDay #FreshWaterMatters2Us
๐ to donate in memory of our Founder's in bio!
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