Stroud Water Research Center
The Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Group studies the cycles of energy and nutrients in streams and rivers and the impact of contamination on water quality.
The Watershed Restoration Group engages the public in freshwater stewardship and watershed restoration by helping landowners implement best management practices and plant streamside forest buffers. We link research, education, and action…
Stroud Center entomologist David Funk documented the unusual behavior of an orthoclad midge species at Lake Umbagog on the Maine/New Hampshire border: Adult females fly over the lake and extrude long strings of eggs which they eventually drop into the water.
Stroud Center president Bern Sweeney, Ph.D., and Jamie Blaine published an op-ed piece in the September 2016 issue of Freshwater Science proposing a new system to reward private behavior to…
Cover cropping coach, Steve Groff, explains in Lancaster Farming how a project at Meadow Springs Farm is a rare opportunity for Stroud Water Research Center scientists to closely observe and…
Stroud Center education staff continued their international impact at the recent North American Association for Environmental Education conference.
“I think science can be a little intimidating,” Bressler says. “Through citizen science, I hope we can make environmental science more accessible.”
Stroud Center scientists are using DNA to identify the likely sources of fecal bacteria in streams, a potential human health risk.
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