Stroud Water Research Center
Watershed Awareness Using Technology and Environmental Research for Sustainability (WATERS) Stroud Water Research Center has created a free watershed science curriculum that uses Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to maximize learning outcomes. The 10-lesson middle school unit is student-centered, place-based, and accessible to those of varying abilities. The WATERS curriculum engages students in a variety of activities, including: Identifying issues…
read moreStreamside forests improve water quality, lower drinking-water treatment costs, replenish groundwater, reduce flooding, provide wildlife habitat, and increase property values.
read moreOur goal is to engage about 10,000 children and adults in our programs on a yearly basis by 2020 and sustain that number into the future.
read more“I think science can be a little intimidating,” Bressler says. “Through citizen science, I hope we can make environmental science more accessible.”
read moreWhen mayfly populations decline, it’s a warning that something has gone wrong. But what? Stroud Center scientists and their colleagues are investigating.
read moreThe project evaluated water quality in White Clay Creek and its tributaries and encouraged efforts to assess, improve, and protect water quality in the watershed.
read moreIn Stroud™ Water Research Center’s early years most people still thought of rivers as conduits that transported things — from ships to sewage — to the sea. With Lake Erie slowly suffocating in its own pollution, the plight of lakes seemed, in those days, a far more urgent issue. Rachel Carson was an early, and often lonely, voice decrying the…
read moreFor the long-tailed dance fly, every night is ladies’ night, Dave Funk explained in a lecture a University of Delaware insect ecology class.
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