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
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Global Impact: Preserving and Conserving Fresh Water Around the World
![A small fish in Rio Rincon, Costa Rica.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/video-fish-rio-rincon.jpg)
Fish of the Río Rincón, Costa Rica
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Wildlife Camera: Costa Rican Tapir
![A tapir at Maritza Biological Station.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/video-tapir-maritza.jpg)
Tapir Visits the Maritza Biological Station
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Spider Monkeys at the Maritza Biological Station
![Chestnut mandibled toucan](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/chestnut-mandibled-toucan-AMace.jpg)