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UpStream Newsletter, Fall 2011

UpStream Newsletter, Fall 2011

Gone Fishin’ -- Evaluating the Threat of Agricultural Contaminants in the Río Sierpe: Stroud Center scientists worked in Costa Rican watersheds to identify contaminants as well as contaminated species that
Map of sampling sites in the Rio Sierpe and Grande de Terraba watersheds in Costa Rica.

Gone Fishin’: Evaluating the Threat of Agricultural Contaminants in the Río Sierpe

Stroud Center scientists sampled the Río Sierpe and Grande de Terraba watersheds to identify contaminants as well as contaminated species that threaten humans who consume them.
A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Food rationing affects dietary selenium bioaccumulation and life cycle performance in the mayfly Centroptilum triangulifer

Conley, J.M., D.H. Funk, N.J. Cariello, and D.B. Buchwalter. 2011. Ecotoxicology 20:1840–1851.
Screenshot of Model My Watershed web app

Model My Watershed® Reaches Students and Teachers

The web app has a dynamic, videogame-like interface that lets students see how modifying land use in their own neighborhoods can affect water quality.
Publication title with image of a mayfly

Ecotoxicological response of marine organisms to inorganic and organic sediment amendments in laboratory exposure

Rosen, G., J. Leather, J. Kan, and Y.M. Arias-Thode. 2011. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 74:1921–1930.
Publication title with image of a mayfly

Marine bacterial community response to inorganic and organic amendments in marine sediments

Kan, J., Y. Wang, A. Obraztsova, G. Rosen, J. Leather, K. Scheckel, K.H. Nealson, and Y.M. Arias-Thode. 2011. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 74:1931–1941.

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WikiWatershed® web tools offer watershed data visualization, geospatial analysis capabilities, and science-based predictions of human impacts on stormwater runoff and water quality.

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.

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 Society for Freshwater Science Taxonomic Certification Program ensures skilled persons are providing aquatic invertebrate identifications in North America.

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 Consortium for Scientific Assistance to Watersheds provides free technical assistance to Pennsylvania-based watershed and conservation organizations.


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