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Citizen Scientists Track Tiny Critters to Determine Health of the Watershed

500 400 Stroud Water Research Center
Psephenidae (water penny beetles)
Psephenidae (water penny beetles)

From Newsworks on WHYY-FM 90.9:

Turns out eight-year-olds aren’t the only ones who love great piles of leaves. Tara Muenz, education manager at Stroud Water Research Center in Avondale, loves them too. And so do the critters that help Muenz and other determine the health of the watershed: macroinvertebrates.

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