Mandy Nix
Watershed Education Specialist
read moreSearch Results for :
trout
Education Email Archive
Educator E-Newsletter List Archive February 2024: Education News: Build Your Own Macroinvertebrate Discovery Tank December 2023: Free Watershed Science Curriculum Maximizes Learning Outcomes August 2023: Jump into fall 🍂 with our education events and resources! May 2023: May Is Living Schoolyards Month! March 2023: Celebrate World Water Day at the Stroud Center! December 2022: Tis the Season to Recharge in…
read moreLearning Leading to Action: Young Heroes Protecting Our Waterways
Students are not only learning how to protect our waterways; they are also conducting their own scientific research or restoring healthy streams — or sometimes both.
read moreScout Programs
Our unique activity patch features the winning design from our patch design contest, submitted by Reagan Hyman from Brownie Troop 457 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Stroud Water Research Center offers programs year-round for Girl Scouts of the USA and Boy Scouts of America groups. Your den, pack, or troop will learn about stream and watershed health through fun, hands-on educational…
read moreImpacts of stream riparian buffer land use on water temperature and food availability for fish
Albertson, L.K., V. Ouellet, and M.D. Daniels. 2018. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 33(1):195–210.
read moreRestoring Flood Attenuation and Ecological Resiliency in the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont
For this project, scientists and watershed restoration professionals restore one headwater basin to reduce flooding downstream, improve water quality, and increase stream-ecosystem resilience so that it will once again support a breeding population of native brook trout and other coldwater fish. Pre- and post-project measures of water quality, hydrologic regime, and biological communities will determine the project’s effectiveness. Funded by:…
read moreCheese Proceeds to Fund Clean Water
Cheese lovers have a new reason to celebrate this holiday season: The Farm at Doe Run has a new cheese that supports clean fresh water around the world.
read moreSportsmen’s Forum
Conservation organizations, watershed groups, hunting and fishing groups, and other sportsmen groups are coming together for a day of collaboration with the common goal of healthy lands, habitats, and waters.
read moreSnake Eating Fish
Stroud Center scientists are often outside working in and around streams, and sometimes just happen to catch a view of the coolest things!
read more