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Farmer showing health soil in a field
Employment Opportunity: Soil Health Project Coordinator
The Coordinator will manage landowner relations and no-till and cover crop implementation on agricultural lands in northern Virginia.
Tree shelters and tree seedlings ready to be planted in a riparian buffer.
Watershed Restoration Internships
The Robin L. Vannote Watershed Restoration Program is hiring up to two paid interns for seasonal or summer assistance.
Waterfall in El Valle, Panama, home of the golden frog.
Employment Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Stroud Center seek a postdoctoral scientist in watershed hydrology to join a team in Panama.
A stream runs through a forest in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Employment Opportunity: Postdoctoral Associate in Microbial Ecology
Stroud Water Research Center is searching for a postdoctoral associate to study molecular microbial ecology in aquatic and terrestrial environments.
A map of southeastern Pennsylvania showing impacted streams and developed land use.
The Stream Restoration Puzzle
A new Stroud Water Research Center presentation examines why investment projects often fail to meet water quality standards.
A close-up photo of lawn grass with a house and tree in the background.
Green Lawns Don’t Have to Lead to Green Water
Learn how to care for your landscape and prevent potentially harmful algae from growing in the waters where you live.
Three scientists stand next to a rooftop rainwater monitoring station in Georgia.
Revolutionizing Environmental Data Collection
Open source technology is helping federal agencies collect high-quality environmental data without the hassle and high costs of proprietary options.
A group of students installs a tree shelter in the streamside buffer at their school.
Volunteer-Led Tree Planting Engages Students in Stewardship
How one community’s action project is teaching students about water, trees, and wildlife and how to care for them.
Eight watershed stewards stand behind a large pile of garbage they have removed from a stream.
Starting a Watershed Organization
Learn how the Little Lehigh Watershed Stewards started a watershed organization in their rapidly developing community and you can too.
Two women gear up for kayaking on a waterway in Dubai.
Lessons From the World Environmental Education Congress 2024
What Stroud Center educators learned and shared at an international gathering to address environmental and sustainable development.
The film festival audience seated for the show.
17 Years of Wild & Scenic Film Festival Raises $250K for Environmental Groups
Trail Creek Outfitters hosted its 17th Wild & Scenic Film Festival, this year supporting the Stroud Center and Brandywine Red Clay Alliance.
Publication title with image of a mayfly
Riparian groundwater nitrogen (N) isotopes reveal human imprints of dams and road salt salinization
Inamdar, S., M. Peipoch, M. Sena, B, Joshi, M.M. Rahman, J. Kan, E.K. Peck, A. Gold, T.L.E. Trammell, and P.M. Groffman. 2024. Geophysical Research Letters 51(5): e2023GL106888.