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Get Your Boots Wet With Our Education Training Events

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Stroud Water Research Center is pleased to announce the expansion of watershed education professional development and training events.

Graphs showing conductivity trends in streams in winter and summer

EnviroDIY Sensors Track Road Salt Levels in Streams

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During thaws and rain events, road salt is carried into streams where it can have chronic and sometimes acute effects on biological communities.

Stroud Center educators visiting Lamotte Company.

Stroud Center Educators Visit the Lamotte Company

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Our educators visited the Lamotte Company recently to discuss our product line and our partnership. Lamotte sells a few of our education products including the Leaf Pack Experiment Stream Ecology Kit.

Marc Peipoch, Ph.D.

Marc Peipoch, Ph.D.

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Associate Research Scientist

Deep purple fruit on an elderberry bush.

Berries and Nuts: a Different Approach to Riparian Buffers

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Planting trees and shrubs on streamside crop land improves water quality. What if you could plant a buffer that would protect a stream and yield a crop?

Nature’s Engineers: Beavers Provide Benefits to Streams

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“Before European colonization, beavers would have been ubiquitous across the northern United States Great Lakes region,” explains Melinda Daniels, Associate Research Scientist and Principal Investigator of the Fluvial Geomorphology Group.

Screenshot from Model My Watershed release 1.18.

Have You Used Our WikiWatershed Toolkit?

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Stroud Water Research Center’s WikiWatershed initiative is a web toolkit designed to help citizens, conservation practitioners, municipal decision-makers, researchers, educators, and students advance knowledge and stewardship of fresh water. The toolkit…

Educators Go “Virtual” After Hurricane Cancels Conference

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Hurricane Maria forced the North American Association of Environmental Education to cancel its annual conference. After reaching out to support their Puerto Rican partners, they then organized a “virtual conference” to share highlights of what had been planned.

DNB First Renews Its EITC Support

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DNB First’s support will allow the Stroud Center to make its school programs, field trips, and professional development workshops available at no or reduced cost to public school districts whose budgets might not otherwise be able to offer the innovative educational programs in support of their regular curricula.