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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Biological assessment of timber management activity impacts and buffer strip effectiveness on National Forest Streams of northern California

Roby, K.B., D.C. Erman, and J.D. Newbold. 1977. Earth Resources Monograph No. 1, USDA Forest Service, California Region.

A diurnally fluctuating thermal system for studying the effect of temperature on aquatic organisms

Sweeney, B.W. 1976. Limnology and Oceanography 21(5):758.

The productivity, mixing modes, and management of the world’s lakes

Horne, A.J., J.D. Newbold, and M.M. Tilzer. 1975. Limnology and Oceanography 20(4):663–666.

Oxygen depletion model for Cayuga Lake

Newbold, J.D., and J.A. Liggett. 1974. Journal of the Environmental Engineering Division 100(1):41–59.

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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.