Tara Muenz

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Interim Director of Education and Leaf Pack Network Administrator

Education Department

Contact

tmuenz@stroudcenter.org
tel. 610-268-2153, ext. 1301
970 Spencer Road, Avondale, PA 19311
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Interests and Expertise

Trained as an aquatic scientist, Tara Muenz’s interests and experiences spread wide, with a passion for all life on earth including science communication, conservation education, community science, streamside forests, landscape design, nature therapy, and creating meaningful experiences (fostering awareness, appreciation, and action) that bring people closer in a reverent relationship with the planet. She has devoted decades to traveling worldwide, assisting individuals and communities in connecting, sustaining, and understanding the planet’s resources on the physical and soul levels. Muenz practices a “less is best” way of life, often seeking the beautiful stillness of the natural world as her greatest source of joy.

Education

M.S., conservation ecology and sustainable development, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
B.A., zoology, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, Ohio.

Professional Experience

Interim director of education, 2026–present.
Associate director of education and Leaf Pack Network Administrator, 2025.
Assistant director of education and Leaf Pack Network Administrator, Stroud Water Research Center, 2015–2024.
Education program manager and Leaf Pack Network administrator, Stroud Water Research Center, 2014–2015.
State coordinator, Georgia Adopt-a-Stream, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009–2014.
Lead research technician, Aquatic Biology Laboratory, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center, Newton, Georgia, 2004–2009.
Graduate research assistant, University of Georgia/Jones Ecological Research Center, Athens, Georgia, 2000–2004.

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Expedition Inspires Students to Act and Impact Local Watershed

The students expressed interest in the story water-quality testing told as they traveled down the river from the mines, through the farms, and into Philadelphia.

Learning Leading to Action: Young Heroes Protecting Our Waterways

Students are not only learning how to protect our waterways; they are also conducting their own scientific research or restoring healthy streams — or sometimes both.

Stroud Center Educators Visit the Lamotte Company

Our educators visited the Lamotte Company recently to discuss our product line and our partnership. Lamotte sells a few of our education products including the Leaf Pack Experiment Stream Ecology Kit.

Students Take to the Woods to Monitor Streamside Forests

This spring, more than 130 students helped Stroud Center educators and watershed restoration staff monitor streamside forests in the Middle-Schuylkill and Brandywine-Christina watersheds.

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.

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.