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Scientists to Collect Water Quality and Climate Change Data From Hurricane Irene

Hurricane data could reveal much about how soil erosion into rivers might bury carbon and sequester it from acting as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere ...

Stroud Center Awarded Grant to Study Agricultural Contaminants

Pesticides and other contaminants from agriculture pose an unknown threat to the Rio Sierpe ecosystem and to humans who eat contaminated fish and shellfish ...

Brandywine Trek Helps Students Spur Freshwater Stewardship

The trek educates students about the importance of the Brandywine River and fosters understanding of the need to implement good stewardship practices ...

Coatesville Students Prepare for Brandywine Trek

Students will learn skills they will need this summer when they will embark on a weeklong journey, by foot and canoe, down the Brandywine River ...

NSF Funds Study of Landscape Restoration Effects on Stream

A study of the long-term impacts on streams after landscape restoration has never been done before. The grant will provide the needed funding to do so ...

Film Festival to benefit Stroud Center on February 24, 2011

The Wild & Scenic Film Festival opens the door for audiences to learn about their environment and how to engage in stewardship activities ...

Dr. Peter Gleick to Speak at The Water’s Edge Gala

Gleick is co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute which is dedicated to fostering environmental protection, economic development, and social equity ...

Sweeney Receives Distinguished Service Award

The North American Benthological Society awarded the director of the Stroud Center its Distinguished Service Award at its Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, NM ...

Sweeney Accepts Honorary Garden Club of America Membership

GCA honored Dr. Bernard W. Sweeney for his outstanding and continuing research on streamside forest and river ecosystems ...

Stroud Center to Host a Sustainable Feast on June 18, 2010

Diners will be treated to a sumptuous, multi-course meal created from the bounty of our local Chester County farmers and producers ...