Stroud Water Research Center
This workshop has been postponed. Education staff are now scheduling new dates for spring or summer 2020 and will notify all registrants. Please check back for new program dates.
Learn how excessive salt affects life in freshwater streams and how a local community group is raising awareness and changing behavior around salt.
This webinar will introduce resources and tools that you can use to build real-time, low-cost data loggers that can form the core of your DIY environmental monitoring system.
Join us for a virtual celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day as we talk about its importance from the perspective of a stream.
This event has been canceled for 2020. The organizers hope to hold it in 2021!
Are you a pre-service teacher looking for fresh ways to engage PreK-5 students in the natural world and environmental education? Join us for From Land to Stream — on the screen!
Hear from Stroud Center experts and learn about drinking water filtration systems, the latest Clean Air Report Card, and ways to plug into community and statewide action.
Model My Watershed lets users visualize geographic data describing watershed conditions and model water quality as they change land use and implement various stormwater best management practices.
This workshop will guide attendees through the process of building an EnviroDIY monitoring station. Attendees have the option to leave the workshop with a functional monitoring station equipped with a Conductivity/Temperature/Depth sensor.
We’ll demonstrate site features and functionality and cover how this open educational resource can be used to support macroinvertebrate identification training with volunteers and students to improve confidence, accuracy, and engagement.
Are you an early-career educator or a pre-service teacher (undergraduate student) looking for fresh ways to engage PreK-5 students in the natural world? Are you a current teacher or non-formal educator seeking a refresher on environmental education (EE) for early childhood through elementary learners? Join Stroud Water Research Center and Pennsylvania State Parks for Land to Stream — on the screen!
Join Leaf Pack Network Administrator and freshwater ecologist, Tara Muenz, for a tour of the new features PLUS an introduction on how YOU can get started with the Leaf Pack Network!
This event has been canceled for 2020. The organizers hope to hold it in 2021!
This event has been canceled for 2020. The organizers hope to hold it in 2021!
Join Project WET State Coordinator Jessica Kester and the experts at Stroud Water Research Center for this two-day workshop focusing on current topics through the lens of water and water-based topics using the Healthy Water Healthy People Curriculum Guide and Project WET's BRAND NEW climate resiliency unit.
Join Project WET State Coordinator Jessica Kester and the experts at Stroud Water Research Center for this two-day workshop focusing on current topics through the lens of water and water-based topics using the Healthy Water Healthy People Curriculum Guide and Project WET's BRAND NEW climate resiliency unit.
Join the conversation as WITF “Smart Talk” host Scott LaMar talks with Lisa Blazure, Stroud Water Research Center soil health coordinator, and two Lancaster County farmers about the numerous benefits of improving agricultural soil health.
Join Steve Groff, the Cover Crop Coach, and Sarah Everhart, with the University of Maryland’s Agriculture Law Education Initiative, to learn how you and your tenant farmer can work together to improve the soil health on your farm.
Sponsored by Pennsylvania American Water
Join us as we introduce the 2020 River of the Year, Delaware River. This four-part webinar series will kick off with an introduction to how science helps to guide policy to ensure the health of our freshwater systems.
This event has been canceled.
Mention Stroud Water Research Center to your server or bartender and 15% of your total bill will be donated to support our efforts. Because you can't have great beer without clean water!
We are inviting public, private, and non-profit agricultural service providers to participate in a five-part, interactive, webinar training series emphasizing no-till and cover crop implementation that will train agricultural service providers to better support farmers who are preparing for and implementing in-field soil health practices.
Mention Stroud Water Research Center to your server or bartender and 15% of your total bill will be donated to support our efforts. Because you can't have great beer without clean water!
This workshop has been canceled due to low registration. We hope to reschedule in the future.
Join Stroud Water Research Center Entomologist, David Funk, for an underwater journey during this informative lecture about the life in our streams.
Hosted by Ecological Landscape Alliance
Join us for a roundtable discussion among the designers, engineers, and client about “getting the water right” at Stroud Water Research Center's Moorhead Environmental Complex.
The Water’s Edge is moving to a virtual format, but the elegance will remain the same. The 2020 Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence recipient is The Redford Center.
Calling all youths ages 12-16! Join us for a program that pairs investigative field experiences with virtual learning. Explorers will be guided through three challenges focused on the significance of First State National Historical Park's Brandywine Valley unit.
We will be planting approximately 2.75 acres with 675 trees on a primary tributary of Doe Run Creek. This planting will also serve as a research site as we will be collecting data on the growth rate of trees in two different types of tree tubes.
Sponsored by Pennsylvania American Water
Join us for the second webinar in this four-part series celebrating the Delaware River. American Rivers will facilitate a panel discussion on how investments in natural infrastructure are paying off for the health of the Delaware River.
Learn how you can spend less time weeding, have a productive garden, and improve water quality and soil health in your backyard!
This online introductory workshop is designed for college students who are education, science, and/or natural resources majors seeking real-world, resume-building experience in early childhood environmental education.
Participants will be exposed to all aspects of Stroud Water Research Center’s EnviroDIY project, including Mayfly Data Logger programming, writing Arduino code for off-the-shelf commercial sensors, and using a free data portal (Monitor My Watershed®) for real-time data upload and visualization.
Learn about the links between buffers and stream health, how aquatic insects can guide watershed restoration, buffer planting and establishment basics, the connection between soil health and clean water, strategic choices for restoring riparian corridors, and new research on buffer establishment methods.
Join us from your couch for a screening of a new documentary about Stroud Water Research Center. This exclusive event will include live Q&A with producer and award-winning journalist, Jody Santos.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED
Welcome 2021 with a family-friendly moonlit stroll through the White Clay Creek watershed to learn what happens in our streams during winter.
Presenting Sponsor: Pennsylvania American Water
Episode 3 Sponsor: DuPont de Nemours, Inc.
The Journey From River To Faucet: How Collaboration Between States Ensures Adequate Drinking-Water Supply Across the Delaware River Basin
Did you miss our virtual premiere? Tune in or set your DVR to record this documentary about Stroud Water Research Center when it airs on WHYY/WDPB.
Join us for a free four-day webinar series for agriculture professionals and farmers discussing soil health and cover crop strategy and success. Webinars run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST each day.
Become an explorer of the Brandywine River watershed with First State National Historical Park and Stroud Water Research Center!
Trail Creek Outfitters is donating 1% of all February sales, online and at their Glen Eagle store, to the Stroud Center and The Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County!
Learn how Stroud Water Research Center is working to mitigate threats to water quality through research, education, and watershed restoration.
Learn how a diverse set of farms are working with water’s innate quality of movement to create lush, productive, regenerative landscapes in the midst of myriad challenges.
Attendees will leave the workshop with a functional monitoring station equipped with a Conductivity/Temperature/Depth (CTD) sensor and cellular data transmission to the Monitor My Watershed data portal.
Learn tips, tricks, and recommendations for successful environmental education grant proposals.
This five-part webinar series (March 4, 11, 18, 25, and April 1) takes a deeper dive into the hidden world of soil microbes.
Ever wonder what a wriggling stream bug or a water chemistry experiment can tell you about stream health? Local girls and Girl Scout Cadettes (6th-8th grade), get your boots wet for a middle-school-level citizen science stream study at Stroud Water Research Center!
Join us for the final webinar in our four-part series celebrating the Delaware River, with presentations by experts in the policy and science of dam removal.
Ever wonder what a wriggling stream bug or towering sycamore tree can tell you about stream health? Girl Scout Daisies (Kindergarten - 1st grade), get your boots wet for a citizen science stream study at Stroud Water Research Center!
Join us from anywhere in the world for a webinar exploring the intersection of art and science. And if you’re in southeastern Pennsylvania, join us outside for a volunteer event!
