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Westtown School students learn about monitoring streamside forests.

Students Take to the Woods to Monitor Streamside Forests

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This spring, more than 130 students helped Stroud Center educators and watershed restoration staff monitor streamside forests in the Middle-Schuylkill and Brandywine-Christina watersheds.

Bern Sweeney and David Arscott wearing waders and standing in White Clay Creek.

Arscott Takes Reins as Executive Director

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After decades of exceptional leadership, Bern Sweeney, Ph.D., is ready to focus on his primary passion at the Stroud Center, research, and continue to help with outreach and fundraising activities.

Experimental Streamside Forest Restoration to Improve Water Quality: Crum Creek

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This project involved an experimental planting of 600 trees and shelters on 2.1 acres of riparian land along Crum Creek in Paoli, Pa. The project was designed to test the…

Stroud Water Research Center Streamside Classroom Project

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This project enhances our streamside classroom along White Clay Creek at Stroud Water Research Center with the construction of three educational kiosks and various interpretive signs and seating areas. Interpretive…

Collaborative Research: Introducing Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) Science to Students and Teachers

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The Critical Zone encompasses the external or near-surface Earth extending from the top of the vegetation canopy down to and including the zone of freely circulating groundwater. This project engages…

David Arscott and Matt Ehrhart accept the 2017 Pennsylvania Governor's Award for WikiWatershed.

Award-Winning Web Toolkit Helps Protect Fresh Water

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The WikiWatershed toolkit was awarded the 2017 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Physiological responses to short-term thermal stress in mayfly (Neocloeon triangulifer) larvae in relation to upper thermal limits

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Kim, K.S., H. Chou, D.H. FunkJ.K. JacksonB.W. Sweeney, and D.B. Buchwalter. 2017. Journal of Experimental Biology 220:2598–2605.

Girls performing a water chemistry test as part of a stream study

Education Programs Reach New and Bigger Audiences

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Our goal is to engage about 10,000 children and adults in our programs on a yearly basis by 2020 and sustain that number into the future.

Through a Scientist’s Lens: Training Citizens in Freshwater Stewardship

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Stroud Water Research Center is working with Delaware River Watershed Initiative partner organizations to grow their network of volunteers and enhance the quality and quantity of the data they collect.