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

Freshwater
Research

Environmental
Education

Watershed
Restoration

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.

Progress

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Latest News

Stroud Water Research Center Launches Its Future of Fresh Water Initiative

With the world’s need for clean fresh water more pressing than ever, we must increase our capacity to pursue that mission ... Read More

Help Us Meet the $1 Million Challenge!

Meeting the challenge for the Bernard W. Sweeney, Ph.D., Executive Director’s Fund will ensure we retain global leadership in freshwater science ... Read More

Mimicking Mother Nature to Protect Clean Water

Stroud Center scientists are pioneering a scientifically valid way to simulate rain to study the links between farming practices and healthy streams ... Read More

Stroud Center Establishes Girls-in-STEM Fund for Education Programs

The fund will support dedicated programming for an audience historically underserved in STEM and outdoor aquatic recreation: women and girls ... Read More

Years of Experience Make for a Seamless Transition

Kay Dixon retired after 18 years in the Development Department but folks can still find her in her former office for a little while longer ... Read More

Stroud Center Partner Wins Ag Leadership Award

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund is dedicated to helping local communities clean up and restore their polluted rivers and streams ... Read More

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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.