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Through a Scientist's Lens: Training Citizens in Freshwater Stewardship
Through a Scientist’s Lens: Training Citizens in Freshwater Stewardship
Stroud Water Research Center is working with Delaware River Watershed Initiative partner organizations to grow their network of volunteers and enhance the quality and quantity of the data they collect.
Two chairs sit in a small lawn area surrounded by native plantings.
Your Livable Landscape: Cultivating an Ecosystem Esthetic
An educational project showing how a shift to an ecosystem esthetic can reduce the carbon footprint of a landowner's landscape while its maintaining beauty.
A child plants a tree in a riparian buffer.
Volunteers Plant 1,140 Trees for National Volunteer Week
The Stroud Center celebrated National Volunteer Week with help from Exelon Generation, BB&T, Cheshire Hunt Conservancy, Colonial Pipeline, Dansko, Hugh Lofting Timber Framing, and local community members.
Eagle Scout Payton Shonk
Eagle Scout Honored for Design of Outdoor Education Kiosk
Payton Shonk was honored for his Eagle Scout project, an education kiosk, at the Stroud Center's dedication of a new outdoor classroom.
Screenshot of midge video.
Mystery Midge with “Kite Tail” Eggs
Stroud Center entomologist David Funk documented the unusual behavior of an orthoclad midge species at Lake Umbagog on the Maine/New Hampshire border: Adult females fly over the lake and extrude
Photo of cows standing in a stream
Q & A: Rewarding Private Behavior to Enhance the Commons
Stroud Center president Bern Sweeney, Ph.D., and Jamie Blaine published an op-ed piece in the September 2016 issue of Freshwater Science proposing a new system to reward private behavior to
Bern Sweeney looks over a level lip spreader
Partnership in Cover Crop Research Bears Fruit
Cover cropping coach, Steve Groff, explains in Lancaster Farming how a project at Meadow Springs Farm is a rare opportunity for Stroud Water Research Center scientists to closely observe and
Stroud Center education staff at the NAAEE Conference
Education Staff Lead Presentations and Winning Canoe at NAAEE Conference
Stroud Center education staff continued their international impact at the recent North American Association for Environmental Education conference.
David Bressler and Jennie Matkov record stream data
David Bressler Connects Citizens to Science
"I think science can be a little intimidating," Bressler says. "Through citizen science, I hope we can make environmental science more accessible."
Technician using a qPCR machine.
DNA Tool Helps Scientists Identify Bacteria in Streams
Stroud Center scientists are using DNA to identify the likely sources of fecal bacteria in streams, a potential human health risk.
Publication title with image of a mayfly
Archaea dominate the ammonia-oxidizing community in deep-sea sediments of the Eastern Indian Ocean – from the Equator to the Bay of Bengal
Wang, J., J. Kan, X. Zhang, Z. Xia, X. Zhang, G. Qian, Y. Miao, X. Leng, and J. Sun. 2017. Frontiers in Microbiology 8:415.
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Influence of experimental extreme water pulses on greenhouse gas emissions from soils
Petrakis, S., A. Seyfferth, J. Kan, S. Inamdar, and R. Vargas. 2017. Biogeochemistry 133(2):147–164.