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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Stroud Center Advises National Park Service on Education Programming
![A small brook trout swims in a shallow stream.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/brook-trout-freshwaters-illustrated.jpg)
Too Hot to Handle: How Rising Temperature Impacts Streams
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Cooperation for a Water-Secure Future: World Water Week 2024
![Pairs of teachers in five red canoes on the Conestoga River.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/millersville-paddling.jpg)
Teachers Dive into Conestoga River Ecology and History
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Transforming Local Parks to Enhance Fresh Water
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.
Upcoming Events
Slimy Leaves for Healthy Streams: A Leaf Pack Network Workshop
September 14, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM EDTBrandywine Paddling Expedition
September 14, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDTThe Water’s Edge Gala and Presentation of the 2024 Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence
September 19, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDTMapping MWEEs in Pennsylvania’s STEELS Standards
October 28, 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM EDT