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Watershed Restoration: A Shared Public and Private Investment

Stroud Water Research Center works hand in hand with landowners, helping them use their land more effectively through whole-farm planning and watershed stewardship.

Our expert team sets up the collaborations and partnerships necessary to achieve the highest level of freshwater conservation. The Stroud Center and many partner groups and agencies have secured over $20 million dollars through USDA’s Resource Conservation Partnership Program to support agriculture conservation and restoration projects on farms in the Delaware and Chesapeake Bay watersheds.

Archival photo of Robin L. Vannote, Ph.D., working at an indoor stream flume.

The Robin L. Vannote Watershed Restoration Program is named for Robin Vannote, Ph.D., a research scientist and the Stroud Center’s first director. Under Vannote’s leadership, the Stroud Center evolved from a dream to an institution at the forefront of freshwater research. The Stroud Center has benefited enormously from Vannote’s hard work, keen insight, and long-term scientific vision since 1966, and the naming of the Watershed Restoration Program is a fitting tribute.

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Cattle walkway area before stabilization.

Watershed Restoration Staff

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Lisa Blazure

Soil Health Coordinator
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Wills Curley

Watershed Restoration Project Coordinator
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Rebecca Duczkowski

Assistant Director of Donor Relations
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Matthew Ehrhart

Director of Watershed Restoration
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Lamonte Garber

Watershed Restoration Coordinator
Amanda Garzio-Hadzick

Amanda Garzio-Hadzick

Watershed Restoration Specialist
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Heather Titanich

Watershed Restoration Coordinator
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David Wise

Watershed Restoration Manager
Calen Wylie

Calen Wylie

Watershed Restoration Program Assistant

Watershed Restoration News

Rich Shockey and his wife in kayaks on the water.
Meet the Forester Who’s Leading People to Clean Fresh Water
Ecological information specialist Rich Shockey is one of our most effective partners helping to spread the word about how streamside forests protect and restore streams and rivers.
2016 Stroud Center interns.
Welcome Summer Interns!
Stroud Center's internship program, now in its 44th year, has ushered through hundreds of interns who have come in search of meaningful work.
Teachers from the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School learned about the Trout Grow on Trees program.
Sharing Our Science: Winter 2016
We share our science to increase awareness and create a public dialogue centered on the protection, preservation, and restoration of watersheds everywhere.
Colorful trout drawings.
Families Learn and Play During Trout Grow on Trees® Day
"The fish ... eat the insects ... on the leaves ... that come from trees!" shouted children and their parents through the forest along White Clay Creek.
Matt Ehrhart with Penn State’s Dean of College of Agriculture Richard Roush and Sen. Elder Vogel Jr.
Ehrhart Re-Elected as Penn State Agricultural Council President
Matt Ehrhart took on a new and substantial responsibility last year when his peers elected him president of the Penn State Agricultural Council.
White Clay Creek behind the Stroud Center in 2013, showing the progress of restoration.
Mapping a Stream’s Recovery
Jennifer Matkov (foreground) and Laura Borecki survey the stream morphology of White Clay Creek. Photo: Kay Dixon On a clear, bright day, Jennifer Matkov wades calf-deep in cool stream water.