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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.

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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.

A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Riverine organic matter composition as a function of land use changes, southwest Amazon

Bernardes, M.C., L.A. Martinelli, A.V. Krusche, J. Gudeman, M. Moreira, R.L. Victoria, J.P.H.B. Ometto, M.V.R. Ballester, A.K. Aufdenkampe, et al. 2004. Ecological Applications 14(4):S263–S279.

Phylogenetic diversity of Synechococcus in the Chesapeake Bay revealed by Ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (RuBisCO) large subunit gene (rbcL) sequences

Chen, F., K. Wang, J. Kan, D. Bachoon, J. Lu, S. Lau, and L. Campbell. 2004. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 36:153–164.

Federal Monies Available for Planting Native Trees and Shrubs

A Riparian Buffer Consultant from the Stroud Water Research Center will create a Riparian Buffer Management Plan for interested landowners at no cost.

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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.