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UpStream Newsletter, Fall 2008

Each of us affects the quality of our drinking water — and there’s a lot we can do as individuals to protect it from harmful contaminants and pollutants ...

Five Days + Seventeen People = A World of Promise

The Stroud Center gained invaluable insights into ways to improve and adapt our popular Leaf Pack Kit for use in Spanish-speaking countries and the tropics ...

A River Runs Through Us

September 14, 2008. The Reading Eagle: Stroud Center scientist John Jackson, Ph.D., was interviewed about the health of the Schuylkill River ...

UpStream Newsletter, Summer 2008

Willy Eldridge recently joined the Stroud Water Research Center to launch its Fish Molecular Ecology Department ...

Spanish-Language Leaf Pack Experiment Kit: Fall Workshop Will Kick Off Pilot Program

Being able to reach out to 500 million Spanish speakers around the world will do a lot to promote a freshwater stewardship movement across many borders ...

UpStream Newsletter, Spring 2008

A documentary film chronicles how students rowed, paddled, and across the watersheds that provide nine million New Yorkers with drinking water ...

Probe: Pharmaceuticals In Drinking Water

The Stroud Water Research Center, in Avondale, Pa., has measured water samples from New York City's upstate watershed for caffeine, a common contaminant that scientists often look for as a ...

Journey to Peru

An account of three weeks in the Amazon headwaters, studying the Madre de Dios River and its tributaries under a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation ...

UpStream Newsletter, Spring 2007

Last summer, Stroud Center scientists and educators traveled to Peru and sampled 31 stream and river sites that ranged from pristine to severely polluted ...

UpStream Newsletter, Summer 2006

10 scientists and two educators are braving the wild tributaries of the Amazon to study over 20 research sites in the Madre de Dios watershed ...