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Since 1967, Stroud Water Research Center has focused on one thing — fresh water.
We advance knowledge and stewardship of freshwater systems through global research, education, and watershed restoration.

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A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Recent perspectives on temporary river ecology

Datry, T., D. Arscott, and S. Sabater. 2011. Aquatic Sciences–Research Across Boundaries 73(4):453–457.
Screenshot of the Model My Watershed web app.

Stroud Center Projects Featured at National STEM Event

The hands-on interactive nature of the Model My Watershed® and Critical Zone Observatory projects received considerable attention from both speakers and educators.
Photo of microbes by Jinjun Kan.

Stroud Center Awarded Grant to Study Meta-Ecosystems

Scientists are using new knowledge to provide an update of the River Continuum Concept and develop a broad model of carbon cycling.
Volunteers help the Stroud Center plant streamside forests.

Volunteering

Looking for a way to get more involved in freshwater stewardship? Whether you live near or far, we have lots of opportunities for you to help protect, preserve and restore
A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

The initial design of data sharing infrastructure for the Critical Zone Observatory

Zaslavsky, I., T. Whitenack, M. Williams, D. Tarboton, K. Schreuders, and A.K. Aufdenkampe. 2011. Pages 145–150 in M. B. Jones and C. Gries (editors). Proceedings of the Environmental Information Management
White Clay Creek flooding across a roadway near the Stroud Center.

Scientists to Collect Water Quality and Climate Change Data From Hurricane Irene

Hurricane data could reveal much about how soil erosion into rivers might bury carbon and sequester it from acting as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

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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.

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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