International Research Projects
Featured Projects
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 30 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.
![Map of the Área de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/acg_costarica_pop-up-e1524586762701.gif)
Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology: Costa Rica
![Peter Kjellerup and Bern Sweeney sorting aquatic macroinvertebrates as Bhutanese children watch.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/bhutan-stream-study-e1514931633608.jpg)
Physical, Chemical, and Biological Assessment of Streams and Rivers in Bhutan and Bangladesh
![The First Assessment of Congo River Organic Matter Chemistry and Reactivity](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/lofty-creek-feature.jpg)
The First Assessment of Congo River Organic Matter Chemistry and Reactivity
![Two women and a man identifying aquatic insects at a workshop in Peru.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/workshop_edu2.jpg)