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Teachers cross a bridge during a stream study.

Summer Institute

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How Best Management Practices Are Protecting Your Drinking WaterTwenty educators participated in a week-long summer program of field experiences and hands-on activities in 2009. Teachers learned effective and innovative methods…

White Clay Creek flooding across a roadway near the Stroud Center.

Stormwater Project: From Classroom to Creek

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This was a program to educate middle school students about water issues in Chester, Ridley and Crum Creek watersheds.Stroud Water Research Center facilitated classroom programs and a storm drain stenciling…

Four students hug on a mountaintop in New York.

Mountaintop to Tap Trek

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A Three-Week Trek Across the New York City Water Supply SystemIn the summer of 2007, six students from New York Harbor School in Brooklyn and six students from Sidney High…

Photo of the Stormwater, Trees and Our Drinking Water brochure

Media Borough Stormwater Brochure

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Stroud Water Research Center educators worked with Media Borough to produce “Stormwater, Trees and Our Drinking Water.” The purpose of the publication was to educate the public “about the importance…

Map of stream reaches designated as impaired (in red) by the PA DEP.

Stream Watch: Leaf Pack as a Monitoring Tool

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A project to help community volunteers assess the water quality of the White Clay Creek watershed. In tandem with leaf packs placed at eight White Clay Creek Stream Watch sampling…

Dogwood trees blooming along the banks of White Clay Creek.

From Scientific Research to Public Policy

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This grant from the William Penn Foundation created a partnership to provide public officials and their constituents with the tools to protect their streams and rivers.Under the two-year grant, Stroud…

Photo of the Leaf Pack Stream Ecology Kit

Educational Product Design

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Stroud Water Research Center’s education department has developed numerous watershed education products that are marketed and available nationally.Products Available Through the LaMotte Company (Links available on the Leaf Pack Network®…

Stream School participants sorting macroinvertebrates.

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Workshops

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In 2006 the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration awarded us a two-year grant to work with teachers in Bradford and Lancaster counties, Pennsylvania.Teachers were trained in monitoring techniques that provided…

Two women and a man identifying aquatic insects at a workshop in Peru.

Andes Amazon Initiative

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The Andes Amazon Initiative was funded by the Moore Foundation to offer workshops in Peru and Costa Rica, to those in positions to make decisions about water resources and those…

Screenshot from Model My Watershed.

WikiWatershed

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A web toolkit to help citizens, conservation practitioners, decision-makers, researchers, and students advance knowledge and stewardship of fresh water.