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Thomas P. Bentley Muddy Boots Fund for Chester County Council, BSA Programs

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The establishment of the Muddy Boots fund has made Stroud Water Research Center education programs free for youth in Chester County Council, Boy Scouts of America. Programs have expanded to…

Teaching Environmental Sustainability — Model My Watershed

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Stroud Water Research Center educators and scientists continued to enhance the Model My Watershed application and refined the model curriculum for middle and high school students. This project is completed…

Brandywine River Trek

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The Coatesville Youth Initiative Brandywine Trek is a youth leadership and environmental awareness program that combines outdoor learning over five days along the Brandywine River. Trek activities build leadership skills,…

Greening STEM Technologies: A Model for Advancing Do-It- Yourself (DIY) Environmental Sensing Networks to Support Citizen Science and Primary and Secondary Education

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Stroud Water Research Center education and technical staff created STEM technologies to enhance public capabilities in citizen science. Partnerships with schools will lead to curricula and tools and the installation…

Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail Contact Point, Program, and Training Initiative

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As a partner in this cooperative agreement with the National Park Service and Sultana Education Foundation, Stroud Center educators continue to expand teacher professional development and school programs in Pennsylvania’s…

Water-Quality Monitoring at Fair Hill Training Center

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Scientists are monitoring fecal indicator bacteria, sediment, and water chemistry from the barns at the Fair Hill Training Center. Based on the data collected, the scientists and restoration team will…

Transforming Water Quality in the White Clay Creek Headwaters of Christina River Basin

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This Watershed Renaissance Initiative grant will enable Stroud Water Research Center to implement extensive watershed restoration projects designed to capture and control excess water and sediment production from agricultural hillslopes.…

Trajectories of Biofilm Succession and Recovery

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The recovery of biological communities after disturbance has always been at the core of ecology as a discipline. While much is known about how interactive effects of flow velocity and…

Significance of Streambank Legacy Sediments as Nutrient Sources and Their Implications for Aquatic Nutrient Cycling

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The potential for streambank legacy sediments as nutrient sources for aquatic ecosystems has been understudied and is a critical gap in our knowledge. We hypothesize that erosion of streambank legacy…

Experimental Streamside Forest Restoration to Improve Water Quality – Ranch at Doe Run

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This project involved an experimental planting of 900 trees and shelters on 2.75 acres of riparian land along a headwater tributary of the Brandywine Creek in East Fallowfield Township, Pennsylvania.…