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
Coronavirus Update
A Message From Dave Arscott, Executive Director of Stroud Water Research Center
Pennsylvania Watershed Education Task Force Honored with 2020 Outstanding Environmental Education Program Award and Second NOAA B-WET Grant
Restoring the River Continuum Community
Mimicking Nature to Manage Water On-Site
Leaf Pack Network Adds Hands-On Experience to Virtual Learning
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
Join us for part two of our webinar series in partnership with @americanrivers celebrating the 2020 River of the Year: Delaware River, this Thursday at 11:30 a.m.
:From the Cities to Suburbs to Farms: How Innovative Water Management Helps River Health
Webinar is #Free thanks to Pennsylvania American Water but you must RSVP. 🔗 in bio! #delawareriver #RiverOfTheYear #FreshwaterExcellence
📸 courtesy of Tim Palmer
Enjoying a brisk fall day? So are some of our trees we've planted to help restore streams. So far this year our watershed restoration group has planted 80+ acres of buffers on farms across Chester, Lancaster, and Berks counties.
This buffer planting is one of the last gaps in the continuous buffer along "Hammertown Run" in northern Lanc Co - a small trib to the Little Conestoga that CBF and the Stroud Center have been working on for years - connecting a long string of buffers and BMPs. Thanks to the Zook family farm for their dedication to conservation.
#Restoration #Research #FreshWaterMatters2Us
We're excited about our first in-person education program since March!!
#sociallydistanced #EnvironmentalEducation #TeachOutside
Remember all of those flags?? We now have #trees
Many dedicated volunteers make for light work! Thank you to everyone who helped us yesterday!! #PlantingTreesForHealthyStreams #FreshWaterMatters2Us
Checking in on our rain gardens this beautiful fall day with pops of purple (and very happy pollinators) everywhere.
#FreshWaterMatters2Us #PlantNative #raingarden
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