Stroud Water Research Center
This new 100-level workshop will focus on abiotic and biotic stream characteristics in natural, urban, and agricultural settings.
Participants will receive an overview of stream ecology and watershed concepts based on research done at the Stroud Center. Taking our boots to the stream, we’ll experience hands-on examination of leaf packs with live aquatic macroinvertebrates, including their identification, and take a look at the Leaf Pack Network® website.
Enjoy cocktails at the beautiful and historic Lucky Hill Farm before taking a short hike with Stroud Center scientists to the Stroud Preserve to learn about a six-year project in partnership with the Rodale Institute.
The theme for this user group meeting will be using Monitor My Watershed. All sensor station users in the Delaware River Basin are welcome to attend.
The SAFIT workshop this year will focus on the aquatic Hemiptera/Heteroptera and will be presented by Dan Polhemus of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Bring nature into your classroom! This workshop in Millersville, PA, will focus on lessons and activities for environmental education on a middle and secondary level from Stroud Water Research Center and Pennsylvania State Parks, including activities from the nationally acclaimed Project WILD and Project WET curricula.
Bring nature into your classroom! This workshop in Kutztown, PA, will focus on lessons and activities for environmental education on a middle and high school level from Stroud Water Research Center and Pennsylvania State Parks, including activities from the nationally acclaimed Project WILD and Project WET curricula.
John Jackson, Ph.D., and Lamonte Garber will discuss the health and restoration efforts of Valley Creek and the surrounding watersheds while we enjoy locally made Victory beer.
Workshop will be held at Bald Eagle State Park in Howard, PA
Learn how to implement Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs) to advance environmental literacy and stewardship while increasing standards-based student achievement!
Workshop will be held at the Frick Environmental Center in Pittsburgh, PA
Learn how to implement Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs) to advance environmental literacy and stewardship while increasing standards-based student achievement!
Starting on Black Friday and continuing through December 31, Patagonia will match all donations made to Stroud Water Research Center through their Patagonia Action Works website!
William Dowell’s documentary images represent the strength of the human spirit as the subjects live with the ebb and flow of the “Gift of Water.”
Are you a non-formal educator hoping to better prepare and strengthen our communities in the face of climate change? Join us for a collaborative 2-day learning opportunity designed to explore some of the science, policy and social/environmental justice aspects of resilience.
Workshop will be held at Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale, PA
Learn how to implement Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs) to advance environmental literacy and stewardship while increasing standards-based student achievement!
Workshop will be held at Dauphin County Agriculture & Natural Resources Center, Dauphin, PA
Learn how to implement Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs) to advance environmental literacy and stewardship while increasing standards-based student achievement!
This event has been canceled. Please visit the conference website for details.
This event has been postponed. We expect to reschedule for late spring or early summer. Please check back.
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.
Monday, March 30: Ecology of Streams and Riparian Forests
Tuesday, March 31: Do Hellbenders, Freshwater Mussels, and Native Brook Trout Matter?
Wednesday, April 1: Selling Buffers WITHOUT Financial Incentives
Thursday, April 2: Reforesting Shallowbrook School
Friday, April 3: Pre- and Post-Planting Vegetation Management for Establishment
Taxonomic certification exams at the AMAAB conference have been canceled. We will be reaching out with more information to those already registered for exams.
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.
