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Since 1967, Stroud Water Research Center has focused on one thing — fresh water.
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Spanish Leaf Pack Workshop participants identifying stream insects.

Five Days + Seventeen People = A World of Promise

The Stroud Center gained invaluable insights into ways to improve and adapt our popular Leaf Pack Kit for use in Spanish-speaking countries and the tropics.
Participants at a Spanish-language Leaf Pack Network workshop.

Stroud Center to Host Week-Long Spanish-Language Workshop

Workshop participants from Central and South America will test drive the Spanish-language version of the Leaf Pack Experiment Stream Ecology Kit.
Flip Nicklin photo and quote.

Flip Nicklin to Speak at the Stroud Center’s Water’s Edge Gala

Nicklin, a National Geographic contributing photographer and the foremost underwater photographer in the world, will present “Whales, A Changing View.”
A River Runs Through Us

A River Runs Through Us

September 14, 2008. The Reading Eagle: Stroud Center scientist John Jackson, Ph.D., was interviewed about the health of the Schuylkill River.
Local School, Stroud Center Kick Off World Water Monitoring Month

Local School, Stroud Center Kick Off World Water Monitoring Month

Avon Grove Charter School and the Stroud Center will hold a public event to enlist community members in monitoring the health of their local streams.
Publication title with image of a mayfly

A taxonomic reassessment of the Drunella lata (Morgan) species complex (Ephemeroptera:Ephemerellidae) in northeastern North America

Funk, D.H., B.W. Sweeney, and J.K. Jackson. 2008. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 27(3):647–663.

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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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