Since 1967, Stroud™ Water Research Center has focused on one thing — fresh water. We seek to advance knowledge and stewardship of freshwater systems through global research, education, and watershed restoration.
What We Do
Future of Fresh Water Initiative
Goal: $20 Million
Nowhere else in the world is there an organization like Stroud Water Research Center, which has spent 51 years focused on understanding, preserving, and protecting fresh water. To strengthen ongoing research and to expand community empowerment programs to protect clean fresh water regionally and around the world, the Stroud Center has announced its Future of Fresh Water Initiative.
Help us reach our goal. Give to the Future of Fresh Water Initiative. Gifts to the Executive Director’s Fund and the Environmental Education Fund will be DOUBLED thanks to generous challenge grants!
Latest News
Employment Opportunity: Grant and Contract Administrator
Employment Opportunity: Postdoctoral Associate in Microbial Ecology
A Message From the Executive Director Regarding the Importance of Racial Equity and Justice
Landowners Partner With Stroud Center on Stream Restoration Across Watershed
Stroud Center Welcomes New Board Members
We’ve Missed This! Stroud Center Resumes Fish Monitoring
Earth Week Volunteers Give Streamside Forest a Helping Hand
Taking Stock of Big Picture, Strategic Priorities for Watershed Restoration
Urbanization pressures alter tree rhizosphere microbiomes
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.
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 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 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.
The Society for Freshwater Science Taxonomic Certification Program ensures skilled persons are providing aquatic invertebrate identifications in North America.
The Consortium for Scientific Assistance to Watersheds provides free technical assistance to Pennsylvania-based watershed and conservation organizations.
Upcoming Events
It's #fieldworkfriday but the rain has us keeping our cameras inside! We're sharing this photo from a sunny day earlier this week.
Ecosystems Ecology summer intern, Jacquie Carroll helped the geomorphology department complete cross-sectional stream surveys to measure erosion and deposition in White Clay Creek.
#Research #FreshWaterMatters2Us
"Fresh water emerges at more than 1,000 springs in Florida. This water, flowing from the aquifer below, supplies more than 90% of Floridians with drinking water."
📸📸 by @jmadler who we are excited to have as our speaker for our second webinar celebrating The Intersection of Art and Science on June 23.
Go Behind the Lens and Below the Surface with us as Jenny shares the world of freshwater and marine science through her lens!
🔗 In bio! Free to attend but you must RSVP!
Remember that volunteer day we told you about doing invasive management work upstream from a series of buffers on Amish and Mennonite farms?
Here we are with our host Travis Martin and #WaterWeek founder Fritz Schroeder of @lancasterconservancy
We're celebrating #nationaltrailsday and #LancasterWaterWeek by volunteering!
#Restoration #Research #FreshWaterMatters2Us
Sunrise over a recently installed riparian buffer along a tributary to Little Conestoga. This buffer is a small one but important. It's the connecting buffer between five adjacent Amish and Mennonite farms, all of which have installed buffers on their land!
You can join Lamonte Garber from our restoration team this Saturday, June 5 for invasive management at the headwaters of this stream as part of Lancaster Water Week! Link to RSVP in bio.
How are we monitoring the changes by the addition of these buffers? Well that's where the science comes in! Our entomology team is sampling this stream to monitor changes in stream health!
#LancasterWaterWeek #FreshWaterMatters2Us #Restoration #Research
Brood X was spotted over the weekend in York County!
#CicadaSummer
As we spend Memorial Day with family and friends, we salute those who have served, like our co-founder Mr. Stroud, and those who have given their lives in freedom. We are grateful for your service!
Learn more about Mr. Stroud's story by clicking on link in bio.
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