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

Rivers are more than water; they are life, memory, movement.
At Stroud Water Research Center, we uncover the science behind these living systems so we can all help protect them. Step in and start your journey.

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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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Environmental Education

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Latest News

Students engaging in watershed science using the Shared Waters curriculum.

Shared Waters Curriculum Brings the Leaf Pack Network to Elementary Students

Designed for grades 3–6, the curriculum teaches how everyday choices affect stream health and empowers students to protect local waterways.

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A decision-support framework for evaluating riverine sediment influence on U.S. tidal wetlands

Halls, J.N., S.H. Ensign, and E.K. Peck. 2025. Remote Sensing 7(18): 3130.

Abigail Duimering samples macroinvertebrates in White Clay Creek.

Wading Through Disciplines

From aquatic insects to microbial DNA, an intern explores how collaboration across disciplines advances stream and soil health research.

A cross-section showing cover crop roots growing deeply into the soil.

Love Your (Gardening) Soils

Skip the rototiller. Learn four soil-health principles, why worms matter, and steps to build water-wise, resilient home gardens.

Teachers collect macroinvertebrates from a stream.

Outdoor Learning Network Helps Teachers Grow and Students Thrive

OLNI empowers teachers to bring real-world watershed science into classrooms, inspiring curiosity and student engagement.

Church members remove invasive vines to restore a forest.

Love Trees? Set Them Free!

Community members clear invasives, replant trees, and celebrate with a rare Franklin tree to inspire youth-led forest stewardship.

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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.