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Meet Raven Bier: New Postdoctoral Associate

Through her work at the Stroud Center, Bier hopes to better understand how changes in farming practices on land affect the relationship between microbes and the processing of nutrients in ...

The Restored Watershed: 50 Years of Solutions for Clean Fresh Water

For the last 50 years scientists at Stroud Water Research Center have demonstrated the connection between good land-use practices and clean fresh water, between healthy soil and healthy water ...

Meet Our 2018 Summer Interns!

The internship experience allows undergraduates to see if they have the passion and fortitude necessary to meet the challenges of a research career ...

Teacher Stipends to Attend Dive Deeper Water Educators Summit

Application deadline has passed. 17 Pennsylvania K-12 teachers will receive a $300 stipend to attend the 2018 summit ...

Denis Newbold Named SFS Fellow

Society for Freshwater Science Fellows are the leaders, at national and international levels, of their areas of freshwater science ...

Get Your Freshwater Science Taxonomic Certification

Through the accurate and precise identification of these organisms, you will be better prepared to record taxonomic data for biomonitoring programs ...

Life Lessons in Three Dimensions: Students, Stroud Center, Retired Teacher Collaborate

By creating these teaching tools for other students to learn about freshwater ecosystems, the students developed their own curiosity about their outdoor environment ...

Research Reveals Caddisflies are Ecosystem Engineers

Hydropsychid caddisflies spin silk mesh nets that they use to filter feed. These nets are important ecosystem engineering structures in flowing waters ...

Computer Science Students Get Their Boots Wet

As part of the Milton Hershey School’s Agriculture and Environmental Education pathway, the students are taking the computer science skills they learn in the classroom and applying them to real-world ...

Scientists Monitor New Wetland Designed for Flood Control and Improved Stream Habitat

Because of flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation provided Stroud Water Research Center with a $3 million grant to reduce flooding across the 1,800-acre White ...