Since 1967, Stroud™ Water Research Center has focused on one thing — fresh water. We seek to advance knowledge and stewardship of freshwater systems through global research, education, and watershed restoration.
What We Do
Future of Fresh Water Initiative
Goal: $20 Million
Nowhere else in the world is there an organization like Stroud Water Research Center, which has spent 51 years focused on understanding, preserving, and protecting fresh water. To strengthen ongoing research and to expand community empowerment programs to protect clean fresh water regionally and around the world, the Stroud Center has announced its Future of Fresh Water Initiative.
Help us reach our goal. Give to the Future of Fresh Water Initiative. Gifts to the Executive Director’s Fund and the Environmental Education Fund will be DOUBLED thanks to generous challenge grants!
Latest News
Employment Opportunity: Grant and Contract Administrator
Employment Opportunity: Postdoctoral Associate in Microbial Ecology
A Message From the Executive Director Regarding the Importance of Racial Equity and Justice
Landowners Partner With Stroud Center on Stream Restoration Across Watershed
Stroud Center Welcomes New Board Members
We’ve Missed This! Stroud Center Resumes Fish Monitoring
Earth Week Volunteers Give Streamside Forest a Helping Hand
Taking Stock of Big Picture, Strategic Priorities for Watershed Restoration
Urbanization pressures alter tree rhizosphere microbiomes
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.
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 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 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.
The Society for Freshwater Science Taxonomic Certification Program ensures skilled persons are providing aquatic invertebrate identifications in North America.
The Consortium for Scientific Assistance to Watersheds provides free technical assistance to Pennsylvania-based watershed and conservation organizations.
Upcoming Events
We have a captive audience for today's restoration work! #Restoration #Farmers #FreshWaterMatters2Us
A fun day @willowdaleracing to support the Stroud Center and New Bolton Center. We are so grateful to everyone who helped to pull off a great race meet today!
Thank you to the Willowdale Steeplechase folks, and all of the volunteers and attendees who made it possible! ❤️
Before it ends...#maythe4thbewithyou
If ya know, ya know 😉 if not, check out EnviroDIY.Org to learn more.
#CitizenScience #FreshWaterMatters2Us #mayflydatalogger
"Ancient trees are precious. There is little else on Earth that plays host to such a rich community of life within a single living organism."
-- Sir David Attenborough
Happy #ArborDay #PlantingTreesForHealthyStreams
Do you think we have a few tree plantings on the horizon? 🤣
#DYK these green tubes scattered around the countryside contain seedlings. While the main purpose of these shelters is to protect the trees from deer browse, they also offer some protection from the wind and help the young saplings to flourish.
#plantingtreesforhealthystreams #Restoration #Research #FreshWaterMatters2Us
A beautiful afternoon doing buffer maintenance along Buck Run. This particular planting was planted in 2017 and is doing great!
Thank you to the @sccchamber Young Business leader group, Resolution Life, and other volunteers from the community for your help!
#EarthWeek #Volunteer
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