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Annual Reports

2023 Annual Report showing paddleboarders on Barton Creek in Austin, Texas.

Read in-depth stories about Stroud Water Research Center’s work in our year-in-review publications. In addition to the cover stories, all annual reports also contain the following features: a message from the director; project descriptions; list of publications; gift, contribution, and sponsorship listings; financial information; and lists of staff, interns, and volunteers.

Friends of the Stroud Center receive a print copy of the annual report each year.

Read the 2023 Annual Report

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A woman carries tree shelters as she helps maintain a streamside forest buffer.
2020 Annual Report

Doing Good Better: Refining Buffer Restoration Methods

The goal of improving the survival and growth of trees has persisted through decades of research. Yet, with every new advance, new questions arise.
Four scientists collect simulated rainfall from soil in a cornfield in White Clay Creek watershed.
2020 Annual Report

Saving Streams With Good Science

Building trust in the scientific process starts with communicating our research to non-scientists. To that end, our scientists share snapshots of three long-term experiments.
A student peers into a microscope to examine an aquatic macroinvertebrate, an indicator of stream health.
2020 Annual Report

Expanding Global Learning Opportunities

We've synthesized digital, remote, and in-person teaching methods, developed remote learning kits, and tailored programming for local high-needs audiences and learners of all abilities.
Restoring the River Continuum Community
2019 Annual Report

Restoring the River Continuum Community

We're working with partners and land users to implement natural solutions to regenerate soils and safeguard fresh water, solutions that benefit both human communities and the entire ecosystem.
Middle school students explore the local watershed to complete their field note books.
2019 Annual Report

Meaningful Watershed Education: A Lasting and Expanding Partnership With a Local School District

The partnership has become a model for building formal and non-formal education partnerships in systemic watershed education.
Diana Oviedo Vargas and Melinda Daniels in a Costa Rican forest.
2019 Annual Report

Stream Reach: Building Communities from White Clay Creek to the Yangtze Basin

To truly make a difference requires, not only understanding freshwater systems, but working with all kinds of communities to protect them.

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Cover of the 1967-2000 Stroud Water Research Center history booklet.
Cover of the Stroud Center's 2017 history booklet, The First Fifty Years