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
![Rio Sierpe, Costa Rica.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/rio-sierpe-e1491412504426.jpg)
Stroud Center Awarded Grant to Study Agricultural Contaminants
![Fly River in Papua New Guinea.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/newguineariver.jpg)
Unearthing Buried Treasure in Papua New Guinea
![Macroinvertebrate identification workshop in Peru.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/workshop_edu2-1.jpg)
Expanding the Leaf Pack Network® to South and Central America
![People in a marketplace in Papua New Guinea.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/new-guinea-marketplace.jpg)
Pursuing Science Half a World Away: The Fly River in Papua New Guinea
![Maritza Biological Station dormitory with Orosi volcano in the background.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Dormatory-and-Orosi.jpg)
Studying Tropical Waters To Understand the Impacts of Climate Change
![Spanish Leaf Pack Workshop participants identifying stream insects.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/spanish-leaf-pack-workshop-macros.jpg)