Our Global Research Efforts
The establishment of Maritza Biological Station marked the beginning of increasingly far-flung travels for Stroud™ Water Research Center researchers and educators, which would take them literally around the world: to conduct research on the Amazon and Congo rivers and the streams of Papua New Guinea; to lead education workshops in Peru and organize a Leaf Pack group in Kenya in collaboration with Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement; and most recently, to journey to the bucolic country of Bhutan, high in the Himalayas, to assess water-quality conditions and help set up monitoring and citizen science programs to enable local communities to protect their freshwater sources, which are at once an enormous economic asset and a fragile natural ecosystem.
International Research and Education News
![A man walks through a Costa Rican landscape of grass and shrubs with a brilliant rainbow above.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/maritza-rainbow-morales.jpg)
Tropical Freshwater Research Unlocks One of Nature’s Secrets
![Stroud Center and Silk Grass Farms staff pose on a bridge over a stream in Belize.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/belize-crew-on-bridge.jpg)
Informing Sustainable Agriculture in Belize
![Three college students take a selfie in a Costa Rican stream.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/college-students-maritza-stream-selfie.jpg)
College Students Travel to Costa Rica With Stroud Center Team
![People stand next to a vehicle on a dirt road to admire a tropical sunset.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/road-to-maritza-sunset.jpg)
Costa Rica Close-Up
![David Arscott and Rafa Morales stand in a stream in Costa Rica.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/arscott-morales-costa-rica-stream-2023.jpg)
Tropical Research Reveals Climate Change Impacts on Water Quality
![Postcard from Costa Rica](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/postcard-from-costa-rica-snake.jpg)