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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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No teacher left inside: preparing a new generation of teachers

Marcum-Dietrich, N., L. Marquez, S.E. Gill, and C. Medved. 2011. Journal of Geoscience Education 59(1):1–4.
A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Rates of soil mixing and associated carbon fluxes in a forest vs. tilled agricultural field: implications for modeling the soil carbon cycle

Yoo, K., J. Ji, A. Aufdenkampe, and J. Klaminder. 2011. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 116:2156–2202.
NSF Funds Study of Landscape Restoration Effects on Stream

NSF Funds Study of Landscape Restoration Effects on Stream

A study of the long-term impacts on streams after landscape restoration has never been done before. The grant will provide the needed funding to do so.
A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Summer-winter transitions in Antarctic ponds II: biological responses

Hawes, I., K. Safi, J. Webster-Brown, B. Sorrell, and D.B. Arscott. 2011. Summer-winter transitions in Antarctic ponds II: Biological responses. Antarctic Science 23(3):243–254.
A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Summer-winter transitions in Antarctic ponds I: the physical environment

Hawes, I., K. Safi, B. Sorrell, J. Webster-Brown, and D.B. Arscott. 2011. Antarctic Science 23(3):235–242.
A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Improving biogeochemical knowledge through technological innovation

Melack, J., A.C. Finzi, D. Siegel, S. MacIntyre, C. Nelson, A.K. Aufdenkampe, and M. Pace. 2011. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9(1):37–43.

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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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