Stroud Water Research Center
Richardson, D. C. 2008. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Maryland. Adviser: L.A. Kaplan.
This project explores the role of extreme flood events during La Niña in burying — and thus preventing from entering the atmosphere — globally significant quantities of carbon. Funded by:…
This research, which is part of a larger, multi-institution project to assess the health of the nation’s great rivers (the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio), seeks to determine whether human impacts…
Horwitz, R.J., T.E. Johnson, P.F. Overbeck, T.K. O’Donnell, W.C. Hession, and B.W. Sweeney. 2008. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 44(3):1–18.
A documentary film chronicles how students rowed, paddled, and across the watersheds that provide nine million New Yorkers with drinking water.
On May 15th 2008, the New York Academy of Sciences will host an event to address the impact of the 1997 NYC Watershed Memorandum of Agreement.
Stroud Center educators worked with faculty at the Upland Country Day School in Pennsylvania to develop, implement and evaluate educational materials to increase quantitative, data collection, and analytical skills through the study of watersheds.
Members of the education department participated in the Schuylkill Learning Community, an association of William Penn Foundation grantees working on projects in Pennsylvania’s Schuylkill River watershed.
In partnership with Hudson Basin River Watch and Riverkeeper, Stroud Center educators trained teachers in the New York City watershed in stream ecology and the Leaf Pack Experiment through a series of two-day workshops.
Stroud Center educators and entomologists joined together to test the effectiveness of leaf packs as easy-to-use monitoring devices for citizen groups.