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Scientist to Deliver Healthy Streams Program for Area Farmers
Bernard Sweeney, Ph.D., director of Stroud Water Research Center, will present information about streams and how they can be improved.

Workshops: Farms for Food, Clean Water, and Healthy Streams
An opportunity for farmers and rural landowners to learn how conservation projects and forested buffers can restore their streams to healthier conditions.

Does DNA barcoding improve performance of traditional stream bioassessment metrics?
Stein, E.D., B.P. White, R.D. Mazor, J.K. Jackson, J.M. Battle, P.E. Miller, E.M. Pilgrim, and B.W. Sweeney. 2014. Freshwater Science 33(1):302–311.

Sharing Our Science: Winter 2014
Stroud Center Models Farm Stewardship at PA Farm Show; Wise Shares Importance of Trees to Streams; Sweeney Speaks In Support of Streamside Forests.

Connecting Land and Water Solutions: Lamonte Garber Joins Watershed Restoration Group
Garber will serve as the watershed restoration coordinator, working with landowners and partnering agencies on restoration and conservation projects throughout Pennsylvania and beyond.

A variable source area for groundwater evapotranspiration: impacts on modeling stream flow
Tsang, Y.P., G. Hornberger, L.A. Kaplan, J.D. Newbold, and A.K. Aufdenkampe. 2014. Hydrological Processes 28(4):2439–2450.

Free Event to Focus on Conservation and Animal Health
The Stroud Center is hosting a presentation for equine farm managers focused on conservation planning, stream ecology, and animal deworming issues.

Soil organic matter stability in organo-mineral complexes as a function of increasing C loading
Feng, W., A.F. Plante, A.K. Aufdenkampe, and J. Six. 2014. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 69:398–405.

Model My Watershed: connecting students’ conceptual understanding of watersheds to real-world decision-making
Gill, S.E., N. Marcum-Dietrich, and R. Becker-Klein. 2014. Journal of Geoscience Education 62(1):61–73.