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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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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

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.

Willy Eldridge with a bronze fish sculpture.

UpStream Newsletter, Summer 2008

Willy Eldridge recently joined the Stroud Water Research Center to launch its Fish Molecular Ecology Department.

Spanish Leaf Pack Workshop participants collecting stream insects.

Spanish-Language Leaf Pack Experiment Kit: Fall Workshop Will Kick Off Pilot Program

Being able to reach out to 500 million Spanish speakers around the world will do a lot to promote a freshwater stewardship movement across many borders.

A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Fish Ecologist and Geneticist Joins the Stroud Center

Eldridge’s research is concerned with understanding and conserving the genetic diversity that is necessary for fish to adapt to changing environments.

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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.