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Resource modification by ecosystem engineers generates hotspots of stream community assembly and ecosystem function

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Tumolo, B.B., L.K. Albertson, W.F. Cross, G.C. Poole, G. Davenport, M.D. Daniels, and L.S. Sklar. 2023. Ecology 104(6): e4052.

Elementary schools students use binoculars to look for birds in Philadelphia.

Celebrate Living Schoolyards Month

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You can celebrate by bringing your students and lessons outdoors. If your school doesn’t have an outdoor learning space, you can create one!

Three brook trout in a stream.

Bringing Eastern Brook Trout Back to Red Clay Creek

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In Pennsylvania, property owners and farmers are transforming their lands to restore a stream’s health and its native fish.

Six Stroud Center staff members at a conference.

Sharing Our Science at the National Monitoring Conference

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Along with networking and learning state-of-the-art water quality monitoring techniques, we presented our research to hundreds of water quality specialists.

Elisabeth Ruschmann standing near a stream.

High School Student’s Research Shows Salt Pollution of Fresh Water Has Tripled in 20 Years

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Elisabeth Ruschmann monitored water quality in her community and made an “alarming” discovery. Now she’s focused on sustainable solutions.

People stand next to a vehicle on a dirt road to admire a tropical sunset.

Costa Rica Close-Up

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Take a virtual trip to Maritza Biological Station, which houses one of the world’s longest continuously running data collections from tropical freshwater ecosystems.

Five girls walking in a stream.

Scientists for a Day

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Students visiting the Stroud Center gather data to help answer a guiding question: “How healthy is the East Branch of White Clay Creek?”

Bern Sweeney, 2023 Society of Freshwater Science Fellow

Bern Sweeney of the Stroud Center Named Society for Freshwater Science Fellow

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Under his leadership, the Stroud Center became the only independent nonprofit, nonadvocacy research institution focused solely on the study of freshwater ecosystems.

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Volunteers Plant 600 Trees for Healthy Streams

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The trees were planted along a tributary of Brandywine Creek in Birmingham Township, Pennsylvania, in a project funded by American Water.