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Brandywine Trek students carrying a canoe.
Coatesville Students Prepare for Brandywine Trek
Students will learn skills they will need this summer when they will embark on a weeklong journey, by foot and canoe, down the Brandywine River.
NSF Funds Study of Landscape Restoration Effects on Stream
NSF Funds Study of Landscape Restoration Effects on Stream
A study of the long-term impacts on streams after landscape restoration has never been done before. The grant will provide the needed funding to do so.
Film Festival to benefit Stroud Center on February 24, 2011
Film Festival to benefit Stroud Center on February 24, 2011
The Wild & Scenic Film Festival opens the door for audiences to learn about their environment and how to engage in stewardship activities.
Peter Gleick photo and quote.
Dr. Peter Gleick to Speak at The Water’s Edge Gala
Gleick is co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute which is dedicated to fostering environmental protection, economic development, and social equity.
Sweeney Receives Distinguished Service Award
Sweeney Receives Distinguished Service Award
The North American Benthological Society awarded the director of the Stroud Center its Distinguished Service Award at its Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, NM.
Sweeney Accepts Honorary Garden Club of America Membership
Sweeney Accepts Honorary Garden Club of America Membership
GCA honored Dr. Bernard W. Sweeney for his outstanding and continuing research on streamside forest and river ecosystems.
Stroud Center to Host a Sustainable Feast on June 18, 2010
Stroud Center to Host a Sustainable Feast on June 18, 2010
Diners will be treated to a sumptuous, multi-course meal created from the bounty of our local Chester County farmers and producers.
Wade Davis photo and quote.
National Geographic Explorer in Residence to Speak
Wade Davis has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.”
Stroud Center to Host Film Festival  on February 11, 2010
Stroud Center to Host Film Festival on February 11, 2010
“These films provide us with an important platform to show how water is at the heart of almost every environmental issue we face,” said Bern Sweeney.
Four scientist taking samples in White Clay Creek.
Critical Zone Observatory Seeks to Answer Climate Change Questions
Project aims to determine how soil erosion and sediment transport through rivers impact carbon exchange between land and atmosphere, and affect climate.
Balls Pyramid
Ian Hutton to Speak at The Water’s Edge Gala
Hutton is an island naturalist, conservationist, researcher, ecotourism pioneer, photographer, and the keeper of Lord Howe Island in the South Pacific.
Diagram showing carbon cycling processes.
Scientists Argue Climate Change Mitigation Strategies Fall Short, Ignoring Significant Carbon Cycling Processes of Inland Waters
Streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands play an important role in the carbon cycle that is unaccounted for in conventional carbon cycling models.