Name: School-Days-Off Camp: Watershed Wonders
Start: 2026-02-16T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-16T15:30:00-05:00
Location: Stroud Water Research Center

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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 stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Organic matter in the Peruvian headwaters of the Amazon: compositional evolution from the Andes to the lowland Amazon mainstem

Aufdenkampe, A.K., E. Mayorga, J.I. Hedges, C. Llerena, P.D. Quay, J. Gudeman, A.V. Krusche and J.E. Richey. 2007. Organic Geochemistry 38(3):337–364.

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Annual and spatial variation for macroinvertebrates in the Upper Mississippi River near Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Battle, J.M., J.K. Jackson, and B.W. Sweeney. 2007. Fundamental and Applied Limnology Archiv für Hydrobiology 168(1):39–54.

Student argumentative discourse in a seismology unit with different scientific data sources

Kerlin, S. 2007. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

Primary productivity in receiving reservoirs: links to influent streams

Bott, T.L., D.S. Montgomery, D.B. Arscott, and C.L. Dow. 2006. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25(4):1045–1061.

Macroinvertebrate distribution in relation to land use and water chemistry in New York City drinking-water-supply watersheds

Kratzer, E.B., J.K. Jackson, D.B. Arscott, A.K. Aufdenkampe, C.L. Dow, L.A. Kaplan, J.D. Newbold, and B.W. Sweeney. 2006. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25:954–976.

Nutrient spiraling in streams and river networks

Ensign, S.H., and M.W. Doyle. 2006. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 111(G4):G04009.

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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.