Featured Research Projects
![Map of the Delaware River basin.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/delaware-river-watershed.jpg)
Delaware River Watershed Initiative
A multiyear project to monitor, protect, and restore critical freshwater sources for 15 million people from New York to the ...
![Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology: White Clay Creek, Pennsylvania](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/baseflow.jpg)
Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology: White Clay Creek, Pennsylvania
A study of a third order drainage basin in Pennsylvania, examining stream and watershed characteristics associated with riparian zone restoration ...
![Map of the Área de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/acg_costarica_pop-up-e1524586762701.gif)
Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology: Costa Rica
A study of small to intermediate size streams in the Área de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica, with the backdrop ...
![A tree growing on the banks of White Clay Creek above the remains of a stone dam.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/christina-czo.jpg)
Critical Zone Observatory
A study of how soil erosion and sediment transport through rivers impacts the exchange of carbon between the land and ...
![White Clay Creek Stream Watch volunteers.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/volunteers_w_suburban.jpg)
White Clay Creek Stream Watch Project
The project evaluated water quality in White Clay Creek and its tributaries and encouraged efforts to assess, improve, and protect ...
![A map showing the Schuylkill River basin.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/whole_basin.gif)
Schuylkill River Project
This project is an effort to assess stream water quality throughout the 1,900-square mile Schuylkill River basin in southeastern Pennsylvania ...
![Stroud Preserve riparian buffer study site map.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/gafarm06_map_75dpi.gif)
Stroud Preserve Reforested Riparian Buffer Project
The Stroud Preserve riparian reforestation project is a demonstration of the three-zone Riparian Forest Buffer System developed by the USDA ...
![Two women and a man identifying aquatic insects at a workshop in Peru.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/workshop_edu2.jpg)
The Peru Project
Stroud Water Research Center applied its decades of experience to an integrated research and education project in headwaters of the ...
![City of New York water supply sign.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/NYC_SIGN_01.jpg)
The New York Project
In 2000 Stroud Water Research Center was awarded a grant to conduct a six-year study to monitor and evaluate water ...