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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 through USDA’s Resource Conservation Partnership Program to support agriculture conservation and watershed restoration projects on farms in the Delaware and Chesapeake Bay watersheds.

Infographic showing the impact of Stroud Water Research Center's watershed restoration work.
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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A Change for Good: Science-Driven Practices Deliver Big Impact

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From worn streambank to protected waterway. An improved animal walkway and targeted streamside planting help stabilize the soil and keep pollution out of the stream.
Cattle walkway area before stabilization.
Smart land management makes a visible difference. Streambank fencing, riparian buffer tree planting, and an improved animal trail work together to reduce erosion and protect clean water.

Watershed Restoration Staff

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Lisa Blazure

Soil Health Coordinator
Will Curley wearing a Philadelphia Eagles jersey.

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
Charlotte Horn.

Charlotte Horn

Watershed Restoration Assistant
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Abby Horst

Watershed Restoration Assistant
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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

Cows fenced out of a stream.
UpStream Newsletter, June 2013
A Holistic Approach to Restoring Streams: Our Watershed Restoration Group has an ambitious goal -- add forested buffers along the entire length of two streams over the next two years.
UpStream Newsletter, April 2013
UpStream Newsletter, April 2013
The River Continuum Concept remains the most often cited paper in its field. So, when Melinda Daniels, Ph.D., wrote “The River Discontinuum,” people noticed.
Cows standing in a stream.
A Holistic Approach to Restoring Streams
The Watershed Restoration Group is building relationships with all of the farmers along two headwater tributaries to restore, protect, and monitor them.
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New Watershed Restoration Group to Ensure Water Quality
The group will bring our mission full circle by sharing knowledge of best management practices and helping landowners and stakeholders to implement them.
Fly River in Papua New Guinea.
UpStream Newsletter, Spring 2011
Two weeks into their work in Papua New Guinea, Dr. Anthony Aufdenkampe and his colleagues had already surveyed more than 600 miles of remote jungle rivers.
NSF Funds Study of Landscape Restoration Effects on Stream
NSF Funds Study of Landscape Restoration Effects on Stream
A study of the long-term impacts on streams after landscape restoration has never been done before. The grant will provide the needed funding to do so.