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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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Fly River in Papua New Guinea.

Rivers Are Not Pipes

Third article in a series about an international team of scientists following the transformation of river-borne carbon from the sources of the Fly River in Papua New Guinea to its
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Diverse bacterial groups are associated with corrosive lesions at a Granite Mountain Record Vault (GMRV)

Kan, J., P. Chellamuthu, A. Obraztsova, J.E. Moore, and K.H. Nealson. 2011. Journal of Applied Microbiology 111:329–337.
Rio Sierpe, Costa Rica.

Stroud Center Awarded Grant to Study Agricultural Contaminants

Pesticides and other contaminants from agriculture pose an unknown threat to the Rio Sierpe ecosystem and to humans who eat contaminated fish and shellfish.
Brandywine Trekkers perform a water chemistry test wearing protective gear.

Brandywine Trek 2011

ON JUNE 14TH, 2011, eight high school students set off on an adventure that was the first of its kind. Their journey took them from the headwaters of the Brandywine
Brandywine Trek students at orientation.

Brandywine Trek Helps Students Spur Freshwater Stewardship

The trek educates students about the importance of the Brandywine River and fosters understanding of the need to implement good stewardship practices.
A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Elemental and mineralogical changes in soils due to bioturbation along an earthworm invasion chronosequence in Northern Minnesota

Resner, K., K. Yoo, C. Hale, A.K. Aufdenkampe, A. Blum, and S. Sebestyen. 2011. Applied Geochemistry 26:S127–S131.

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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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