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The Water’s Edge: An Evening in Review

Olivia Newton-John and John Easterling received the Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence for their commitment to rainforest conservation in the Amazon River basin ...

UpStream Newsletter, Fall 2011

Gone Fishin’: Evaluating the Threat of Agricultural Contaminants in the Río Sierpe This article has moved. The Magic of Revealing the Mysteries of Metaecosystems By Diane Huskinson Abracadabra “Any sufficiently ...

Gone Fishin’: Evaluating the Threat of Agricultural Contaminants in the Río Sierpe

Stroud Center scientists sampled the Río Sierpe and Grande de Terraba watersheds to identify contaminants as well as contaminated species that threaten humans who consume them ...

Model My Watershed® Reaches Students and Teachers

The web app has a dynamic, videogame-like interface that lets students see how modifying land use in their own neighborhoods can affect water quality ...

UpStream Newsletter, Summer 2011

The difference between the organic materials that enter and leave a river system tells us how the river affects greenhouse gases ...

Rivers Are Not Pipes

Third article in a series about an international team of scientists following the transformation of river-borne carbon from the sources of the Fly River in Papua New Guinea to its ...

Brandywine Trek 2011

ON JUNE 14TH, 2011, eight high school students set off on an adventure that was the first of its kind. Their journey took them from the headwaters of the Brandywine ...

UpStream Newsletter, Spring 2011

Two weeks into their work in Papua New Guinea, Dr. Anthony Aufdenkampe and his colleagues had already surveyed more than 600 miles of remote jungle rivers ...

Unearthing Buried Treasure in Papua New Guinea

Second article in a series about an international team of scientists following the transformation of river-borne carbon from the sources of the Fly River in Papua New Guinea to its ...

UpStream Newsletter, Winter 2011

Stroud Center scientists think Papua New Guinea might be more important in terms of carbon and sediment discharge than the entire Amazon River ...