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The Information Services Group provides computing services, network administration, data management and analysis (including Geographic Information Services), and web design and development support for Stroud Water Research Center.

Information Services Staff

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Heather Brooks

Web Developer
Sara Geleskie Damiano

Sara Damiano

Staff Scientist
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Charles Dow, Ph.D.

Director of Information Services, Research Scientist
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Adam Franklin

Systems Administrator
Timothy Smith

Timothy Smith

Data Analyst

News

Meet Our 2020 (Virtual) Interns!
Meet Our 2020 (Virtual) Interns!
The COVID-19 pandemic prevented us from bringing interns onto our campus this year but we are fortunate to have four interns working remotely.
Three summer interns measuring stream parameters.
Meet Our 2019 Summer Interns!
Our internship program, now in its 47th year, has ushered through hundreds of interns who have come in search of meaningful work.
Sharing Our Science: From Data Analysts to Fly Fishermen
Sharing Our Science: From Data Analysts to Fly Fishermen
Charlie Dow talks about long-term datasets and Scott Ensign explains how fly fishermen can protect and restore the streams upon which their hobby depends.
Stroud Center's 2018 summer interns
Meet Our 2018 Summer Interns!
The internship experience allows undergraduates to see if they have the passion and fortitude necessary to meet the challenges of a research career.
American mink standing on rocks
Secretive Mink Caught on Video in White Clay Creek
This was an unusual sighting because American mink are most active at night and in the early morning hours. It's also a good sign for White Clay Creek.
A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.
Characterizing Stream Connections and Physical, Chemical, Biological Influences on Downstream Navigable Waters
Drs. Dow and Arscott provided scientific expert services for the U.S. Department of Justice in the matter of Foster et al. v. EPA et al., No. 2:12-cv-16744 (S.D.W.V.). The scope

Publications

Geochemistry and mixing drive the spatial distribution of free-living archaea and bacteria in Yellowstone Lake

Kan, J., S. Clingenpeel, C.L. Dow, T.R. McDermott, R.E. Macur, W.P. Inskeep, and K.H. Nealson. 2016. Frontiers in Microbiology 7(210):1–13.

Dynamic hydrologic and biogeochemical processes drive microbially enhanced iron and sulfur cycling within the intertidal mixing zone of a beach aquifer

McAllister, S.M., J.M. Barnett, J.W. Heiss, A.J. Findlay, D.J. MacDonald, C.L. Dow, G.W. Luther III, H.A. Michael, and C.S.Chan. 2015. Limnology and Oceanography 60:329–345.

Scientific and educational aspects of water quality and stream health in Eastern Pennsylvania

Aufdenkampe, A.K., T.L. Bott, C.L. Dow, J.K. Jackson, L.A. Kaplan, A.E. Schuyler, and B.W. Sweeney. 2010. Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale, Pennsylvania.

Water quality monitoring in the source water areas for New York City: an integrative watershed approach

Arscott, D.B., A.K. Aufdenkampe, T.L. Bott, C.L. Dow, J.K. Jackson, L.A. Kaplan, J.D. Newbold, and B.W. Sweeney. 2008. Final report on monitoring activities, 2000-2005. Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale, Pennsylvania.