Stroud Water Research Center produces the trusted science needed for successful stream and river conservation while fostering people’s passion for the water in their lives.

What We Do

Freshwater Research

Environmental Education

Watershed Restoration

From Freshwater Science to Real-World Solutions

The Stroud Center integrates scientific discovery, watershed restoration, and long-term monitoring to generate practical solutions for freshwater protection.

Research, watershed restoration, and monitoring feedback loop.

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Expanding Access to Water Quality Monitoring

Globally, more than 3 billion people lack water quality data. Expanding access to monitoring tools helps communities protect their water and safeguard public health.

High school science teachers install an EnviroDIY Monitoring Station near a stream in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Bhutanese women identify aquatic macroinvertebrates.

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At the Stroud Center, we are both practical and optimistic, and we have seen change for the good. Join us in pursuing positive outcomes for the environment and people.

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Latest Freshwater News

A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Connecting streams, science, and communities

Travers, K., and C. Medved. 2006. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the North American Association of Environmental Education, St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Survey and relocation study of unionids in Chickasawhatchee Creek and Elmodel Wildlife Management areas, southwest Georgia

Golladay, S.W., and T.K. Muenz. 2006. Final Report. Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

Bacterioplankton community in Chesapeake Bay: predictable or random assemblages

Kan, J., B.C. Crump, K. Wang, and F. Chen. 2006. Limnology and Oceanography 51:2157–2169.

Tioga County EPA Grant to Study Effects of Acid Mine Drainage

Stroud Center scientists will investigate the relationship between acid mine drainage and the ability of streams to process nitrogen and other nutrients.

Bern Sweeney and Jamie Blaine sampling a stream in Peru.

UpStream Newsletter, Summer 2006

10 scientists and two educators are braving the wild tributaries of the Amazon to study over 20 research sites in the Madre de Dios watershed.

Uptake of nutrients and organic C in streams in New York City drinking-water-supply watersheds

Newbold, J.D., T.L. Bott, L.A. Kaplan, C.L. Dow, J.K. Jackson, A.K. Aufdenkampe, L.A. Martin, D.J. Van Horn, and A.A. Long. 2006. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25(4):998–1017.