Name: Science Open House Celebrating World Water Day
Start: 2026-03-21T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-03-21T13:00:00-04:00
Location: Stroud Water Research Center

Road Salt is Polluting Fresh Water

Salt keeps us safe on icy roads — but it’s also quietly harming waterways.

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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.

Effect of large woody debris configuration on spatial patterns of three-dimensional flow in two low-energy meander bends at varying stages

Daniels, M.D., and B.L. Rhoads. 2004. Water Resources Research 40(11):W11302.

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Response to commentary by Hardy, Reich, and Tucker

Cahoon, L.B., and S.H. Ensign. 2004. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 70:323–324.

Assessment of microbial dynamics in the Pearl River Estuary by 16S rRNA terminal restriction fragment analysis

Wu, M., L. Song, J. Ren, J. Kan, and P. Qian. 2004. Continental Shelf Research 24:1925–1934.

Streamside Forests Protect the World’s Fresh Water

Stroud Center scientists have discovered that streamside forests play a critical, and previously unacknowledged, role in protecting the world’s fresh water.

Riparian deforestation, stream narrowing, and loss of stream ecosystem services

Sweeney, B.W., T.L. Bott, J.K. Jackson, L.A. Kaplan, J.D. Newbold, L.J. Standley, W.C. Hession, and R.J. Horwitz. 2004. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101(30):14132–14137.

UpStream Newsletter, Summer 2004

A National Science Foundation grant for a study in the Amazon could help unravel the mystery of the missing carbon sink.

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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.