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SUMMARY:Slimy Leaves for Healthy Streams: A Leaf Pack Network Workshop
DESCRIPTION:When: Saturday\, September 14\, 2024\, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.Where: Stroud Water Research Center\, 970 Spencer Road\, Avondale\, PA 19311Audience: Middle and high school teachers\, environmental educators\, and anyone interested in community science.Cost: Free! Registration is required\, see the instructions below. Please bring a lunch. \n\n\n\nHow Can Clumps of Slimy Leaves Spark Stream Exploration?\n\n\n\nThe Leaf Pack Network® is a fun\, hands-on research and outreach tool for people of all ages that demonstrates how our actions on land impact life in streams and water quality. The Leaf Pack Network promotes inquiry-based interdisciplinary watershed education. It teaches diverse audiences to conduct experiments\, gather ecological data\, explore food webs\, learn classification skills\, use technology to share data\, compare data with other communities’ data\, and apply that information to protect local watersheds. \n\n\n\nJoin Us at Our Workshop and We’ll Show You How!\n\n\n\nParticipants will receive an overview of stream ecology and watershed concepts based on research at Stroud Water Research Center. Taking our boots to the stream\, we’ll examine leaf packs with live aquatic macroinvertebrates\, identify them\, and explore the Leaf Pack Network website. \n\n\n\nLeaf Pack Stream Ecology Kit\n\n\n\nAt the workshop\, you will receive: \n\n\n\n\nLeaf Pack Stream Ecology Kit give-aways!\n\n\n\nTour of the Stroud Center’s research labs and LEED-Platinum-certified building\n\n\n\nHands-on experience deploying and retrieving leaf packs from the stream\n\n\n\nTraining in macroinvertebrate ID\n\n\n\nFUN teaching techniques to bring to your classes!\n\n\n\nCertificate of participation (volunteer hours or towards teacher professional development credits)
URL:https://stroudcenter.org/event/leaf-pack-workshop-2024/
LOCATION:Stroud Water Research Center\, 970 Spencer Road\, Avondale\, PA\, 19311\, United States
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SUMMARY:Brandywine Paddling Expedition
DESCRIPTION:When: Saturday\, September 14\, 2024\, from 12 to 5 p.m.\n\n\n\nWhere: Brandywine Park\, 1080 N. Park Drive\, Wilmington\, DE 19802\n\n\n\nCost: Free.\n\n\n\n\nJoin Stroud Water Research Center educators for educational activities in Brandywine Park followed by a paddle to the confluence of the Brandywine and Christina rivers. Beginning paddlers are welcome!  \n\n\n\nBrandywine Paddling Expedition activities run from Thursday\, September 12 through Saturday\, September 14. Invitees can participate in any or all of the programming and are encouraged to spread the word among colleagues\, local school administrators\, and teachers!  \n\n\n\nFor more information and to RSVP\, email Ronnie Vesnaver at ronnie@upstreamalliance.org.
URL:https://stroudcenter.org/event/brandywine-paddling-expedition/
LOCATION:Brandywine Park\, 1080 N. Park Drive\, Wilmington\, DE\, 19802\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Water’s Edge Gala and Presentation of the 2024 Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence
DESCRIPTION:The Water’s Edge gala brings together business leaders in the community\, supporters of Stroud Water Research Center\, and experts in the world of fresh water. During this event\, the Stroud Center recognizes an individual or organization that has made invaluable contributions to the world of fresh water or environmental conservation and presents them with the Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence.  \n\n\n\nThe 2024 SAFE Award will be presented to American fisherman and award-winning author Paul Greenberg. \n\n\n\n\nDate and time: Thursday\, September 19\, 2024.\n\n6:30 p.m. Registration and cocktails.\n\n\n\n7:15 p.m. Lecture and award presentation.\n\n\n\n8 p.m. Dinner.\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation: Winterthur Museum\, Garden & Library\, 5105 Kennett Pike\, Winterthur\, DE 19375.\n\n\n\n\nThe Water’s Edge is the Stroud Center’s annual signature event. It honors the achievements of the award recipient while supporting the Stroud Center’s ongoing efforts as a global leader in freshwater research\, environmental education\, and watershed restoration. \n\n\n\nThanks to Our Sponsors\n\n\n\nLead Sponsors\n\n\n\n\n\nBlue Yak Foundation \n\n\n\nBrown Brothers Harriman Trust Company of Delaware\, N.A. \n\n\n\nFresh Start Development Company \n\n\n\nLandhope Farms \n\n\n\nThe Moorhead Family Foundation \n\n\n\nMeg and Dick Hayne \n\n\n\nWilmington Trust \n\n\n\nMr. & Mrs. D. Scott Wisman \n\n\n\n\n\nKey Sponsors\n\n\n\n\n\nFranny and Franny Abbott \n\n\n\nBNY Wealth \n\n\n\nBrown Advisory \n\n\n\nCommunications Test Design\, Inc. \n\n\n\nPhoebe Driscoll \n\n\n\nHankin Group \n\n\n\nHerr Foods\, Inc. \n\n\n\nGlatfelter Insurance Group \n\n\n\n\n\nFair Play Foundation \n\n\n\nJohnston Family Charitable Trust \n\n\n\nMrs. Michael Matz \n\n\n\nMr. and Mrs. Michael Moran \n\n\n\nRunnymede Sanctuary \n\n\n\nMr. and Mrs. Stephen Stroud \n\n\n\nW.A. Speakman Family Foundation \n\n\n\nCarol Ware\, Ph.D. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe 2024 Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence Recipient: Paul Greenberg\n\n\n\nHighlighting Global Sustainability Through Fisheries\n\n\n\nFirst learning to fish with his father at the age of five\, Paul Greenberg is a lifelong fisherman and has taken his love for fishing to pen. His writing helps readers escape screens and find balance on the planet. \n\n\n\nGreenberg has written six books\, including The New York Times Best Seller and Notable Book\, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food. He has received a James Beard Award for Writing and Literature\, a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation\, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship\, and many other grants and awards. He has also written for National Geographic Magazine\, GQ\, The Times (of London)\, and Vogue\, and he lectures on seafood and the environment around the world. \n\n\n\nHe is the writer-in-residence of the Safina Center and regularly contributes to academia. He is an adjunct professor at New York University’s Animal Studies Program in Manhattan and is a visiting scholar at the University of Washington’s Ocean Nexus Center. \n\n\n\nPrevious speakers and award winners have included luminaries such as Jane Goodall\, Olivia Newton-John and John Easterling\, American Rivers and its president\, Bob Irvin\, His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco\, Alexandra Cousteau\, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\, among others.
URL:https://stroudcenter.org/event/waters-edge-2024/
LOCATION:Winterthur Museum\, Garden & Library\, 5105 Kennett Pike\, Winterthur\, DE\, 19735
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