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A River Runs Through Us
A River Runs Through Us
September 14, 2008. The Reading Eagle: Stroud Center scientist John Jackson, Ph.D., was interviewed about the health of the Schuylkill River.
Local School, Stroud Center Kick Off World Water Monitoring Month
Local School, Stroud Center Kick Off World Water Monitoring Month
Avon Grove Charter School and the Stroud Center will hold a public event to enlist community members in monitoring the health of their local streams.
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A taxonomic reassessment of the Drunella lata (Morgan) species complex (Ephemeroptera:Ephemerellidae) in northeastern North America
Funk, D.H., B.W. Sweeney, and J.K. Jackson. 2008. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 27(3):647–663.
Willy Eldridge with a bronze fish sculpture.
UpStream Newsletter, Summer 2008
Willy Eldridge recently joined the Stroud™ Water Research Center to launch its Fish Molecular Ecology Department.
Spanish Leaf Pack Workshop participants collecting stream insects.
Spanish-Language Leaf Pack Experiment Kit: Fall Workshop Will Kick Off Pilot Program
Being able to reach out to 500 million Spanish speakers around the world will do a lot to promote a freshwater stewardship movement across many borders.
A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.
Fish Ecologist and Geneticist Joins the Stroud Center
Eldridge’s research is concerned with understanding and conserving the genetic diversity that is necessary for fish to adapt to changing environments.
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A new parthenogenetic mayfly (Ephemeroptera:Ephemerellidae:Eurylophella Tiensuu) oviposits by abdominal bursting in the subimago
Funk, D.H., J.K. Jackson, and B.W. Sweeney. 2008. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 27(2):269–279.
A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.
Predation of the spiny softshell (Apalone spinifera)
Muenz, T.K., A.Kaeser, B.Bass, and D.Steen. 2008. Herpetological Review 39(2):212.
A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.
Spatial and temporal variation in streambed bacterial community composition and correlation with environmental variables
Hogan, K. R. 2008. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Adviser: L.A. Kaplan.
A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.
Transport, sources, and quality of seston in a Piedmont headwater stream
Richardson, D. C. 2008. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Maryland. Adviser: L.A. Kaplan.
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Effects of riparian vegetation and watershed urbanization on fishes in streams of the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont (USA)
Horwitz, R.J., T.E. Johnson, P.F. Overbeck, T.K. O’Donnell, W.C. Hession, and B.W. Sweeney. 2008. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 44(3):1–18.
UpStream Newsletter, Spring 2008
UpStream Newsletter, Spring 2008
A documentary film chronicles how students rowed, paddled, and across the watersheds that provide nine million New Yorkers with drinking water.