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.

Learn About Our Impact

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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Latest Freshwater News

Anthony Aufdenkampe taking water samples from the Pixiam River in Brazil

Amazon Source of 5-Year-Old River Breath

Most of the carbon being outgassed as carbon dioxide from Amazonian rivers and wetlands has spent a mere five years sequestered in the plants and soils of the surrounding landscape.

A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Lateral organization of aquatic invertebrates along the continuum of a braided-floodplain river

Arscott, D.B., K. Tockner, J.V. Ward. 2005. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 24:934–945.

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Scientific underpinnings of sediment quality guidelines

Bately, G.E., R.G. Stahl Jr., M.P. Babut, T.L. Bott, et al. 2005. Pages 39–119 in R.W. Wenning, G. Batley, C. Ingersoll, and D.W. Moore (editors). Use of sediment quality guidelines

UpStream Newsletter, Spring 2005

W. B. Dixon Stroud has left a remarkable impact on southern Chester County, his home for the past 50 years, and beyond.

Terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates as bioindicators for environmental monitoring, with particular reference to mountain ecosystems

Hodkinson, I.D., and J.K. Jackson. 2005. Environmental Management 35:649–666.

Fluctuations of dissolved organic matter in river used for drinking water and impacts on conventional treatment plant performance

Volk, C., L.A. Kaplan, J. Robinson, B. Johnson, L. Wood, H.W. Zhu, and M. LeChevallier. 2005. Environmental Science and Technology 39(11):4258–4264.