Press Releases
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 ...
National Geographic Explorer in Residence to Speak
Wade Davis has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.” ...
Stroud Center to Host Film Festival on February 11, 2010
“These films provide us with an important platform to show how water is at the heart of almost every environmental issue we face,” said Bern Sweeney ...
Critical Zone Observatory Seeks to Answer Climate Change Questions
Project aims to determine how soil erosion and sediment transport through rivers impact carbon exchange between land and atmosphere, and affect climate ...
Ian Hutton to Speak at The Water’s Edge Gala
Hutton is an island naturalist, conservationist, researcher, ecotourism pioneer, photographer, and the keeper of Lord Howe Island in the South Pacific ...
Scientists Argue Climate Change Mitigation Strategies Fall Short, Ignoring Significant Carbon Cycling Processes of Inland Waters
Streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands play an important role in the carbon cycle that is unaccounted for in conventional carbon cycling models ...
Director Sweeney to Lead Freshwater Surveillance Group
The International Barcode of Life project has appointed Dr. Bernard W. Sweeney, Director of the Stroud Center, to head its Freshwater Surveillance group ...
Al Fresco Feast to Celebrate Local Sustainable Agriculture
The feast will draw the connection between the requirements for clean, fresh water and a healthy watershed to produce our food ...
Schuylkill Sojourn Gives Paddlers a Glimpse into the World Below Their Kayaks
Sojourners will be joined by scientists from the Stroud Center, who will give presentations about the river environment at lunch and evening stops ...
Celebrated Photographer, Educator, and Activist to Speak
On Thursday, April 9, 2009, Subhankar Banerjee will present "Land as Home: Vision for an Eco-Culturally Sustainable Arctic." ...