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Employment Opportunity: Director of Marketing and Communications

This newly created position represents a unique opportunity to shape the brand, messaging, and marketing strategy of a highly respected and impactful nonprofit organization influencing the future of fresh water.

Summer Internship Opportunity: Entomology

We’re seeking current or recently graduated science majors to serve as laboratory assistants in a biological water-quality analysis of sites in the Schuylkill and Delaware River basins.

First Resource Bank Boosts Its Support of Education Programming

Thanks to First Resource Bank for their $3,500 donation to our environmental education program through a Earned Income Tax Credit contribution.

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Water Protectors: Celebrating the Seneca Nation’s Efforts to Strengthen the Next Generation of Freshwater Stewards

Stroud Center educators worked with Seneca Nation leaders on meaningful freshwater education concepts to empower their citizens to improve their tribal waterways.

Sylvie Randall examines a tiny catfish in a sample vessel.

The Tiny Things We Cannot See: Sylvie Randall Explores the Threats and Promises of Microbes

“Everyone uses science whether they know it or not,” says Randall. And it’s needed to tackle the world’s greatest challenges.

Nature's Best Hope Science Seminar Featuring Doug Tallamy, Ph.D.

We Are Nature’s Best Hope: An Interview with Doug Tallamy

The scientist, author, and native plants advocate recently described how replacing lawn is necessary for supporting wildlife and food production.

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Arsenic and mercury distribution in an aquatic food chain: importance of femtoplankton and picoplankton filtration fractions

Alowaifeer, A.M., S. Clingenpeel, J. Kan, P.E. Bigelow, M. Yoshinaga, B. Bothner, and T.R. McDermott. 2022. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, early online access.