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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 over the next decades years 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.

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Map of sampling sites in the Rio Sierpe and Grande de Terraba watersheds in Costa Rica.
Gone Fishin’: Evaluating the Threat of Agricultural Contaminants in the Río Sierpe
Stroud Center scientists sampled the Río Sierpe and Grande de Terraba watersheds to identify contaminants as well as contaminated species that threaten humans who consume them.
Photo of microbes by Jinjun Kan.
Stroud Center Awarded Grant to Study Meta-Ecosystems
Scientists are using new knowledge to provide an update of the River Continuum Concept and develop a broad model of carbon cycling.
Fly River in Papua New Guinea.
Rivers Are Not Pipes
Third article in a series about an international team of scientists following the transformation of river-borne carbon from the sources of the Fly River in Papua New Guinea to its
Rio Sierpe, Costa Rica.
Stroud Center Awarded Grant to Study Agricultural Contaminants
Pesticides and other contaminants from agriculture pose an unknown threat to the Rio Sierpe ecosystem and to humans who eat contaminated fish and shellfish.
Fly River in Papua New Guinea.
Unearthing Buried Treasure in Papua New Guinea
Second article in a series about an international team of scientists following the transformation of river-borne carbon from the sources of the Fly River in Papua New Guinea to its
Macroinvertebrate identification workshop in Peru.
Expanding the Leaf Pack Network® to South and Central America
The goal is to create a conservation ethic that integrates ordinary people into the decision-making process by putting simple assessment tools into their hands.