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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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Water quality functions of a 15-year-old riparian forest buffer system

Newbold, J.D., S. Herbert, B.W. Sweeney, P. Kiry, and S.J. Alberts. 2010. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 46(2):299–310.
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Scientific and educational aspects of water quality and stream health in Eastern Pennsylvania

Aufdenkampe, A.K., T.L. Bott, C.L. Dow, J.K. Jackson, L.A. Kaplan, A.E. Schuyler, and B.W. Sweeney. 2010. Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale, Pennsylvania.
UpStream Newsletter, Spring 2010

UpStream Newsletter, Spring 2010

Yellowstone Lake is the subject of exciting research by Jinjun Kan, the microbial ecologist who will join the Stroud Water Research Center in the spring.
A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Aquatic invertebrate community structure along an intermittence gradient: Selwyn River, New Zealand

Arscott, D.B., S.T. Larned, M. Scarsbrook, and P. Lambert. 2010. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 29(2):530–545.
Stroud Center to Host Film Festival on February 11, 2010

Stroud Center to Host Film Festival on February 11, 2010

“These films provide us with an important platform to show how water is at the heart of almost every environmental issue we face,” said Bern Sweeney.
A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Trophic transfer of Cd from natural periphyton to the grazing mayfly Centroptilum triangulifer in a life cycle test

Xie, L., D.H. Funk, and D.B. Buchwalter. 2010. Environmental Pollution 158:272–277.

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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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