Stroud Water Research Center
The project aims to document the current ecological status and health of the river and seeks to engage and educate a diverse set of river users and residents.
For teachers, access to real-time data on the Monitor My Watershed data portal can revolutionize the way students are taught about water.
Master Watershed Stewards help develop science capacity to support stream and river protection and restoration by citizen science programs.
“Our students have learned not only how to make contributions to a global community of researchers but have been empowered by sharing their own data with the world.”
Environmental Monitor profiled the environmental education program at The Hill School in the Schuylkill River Greenways National Heritage Area.
Bressler, D.W., J.K. Jackson, M.J. Ehrhart, and D.B. Arscott. 2019. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 9(1):24–27.
Low-cost, open-source data collectors and a suite of collaborative online tools are making big leaps in the field of watershed monitoring.
Ensign, S., D. Arscott, S. Hicks, A. Aufdenkampe, T. Muenz, J. Jackson, and D. Bressler. 2019. Eos, 100.
David Bressler describes his work as a citizen science facilitator at Stroud Water Research Center.
“I think science can be a little intimidating,” Bressler says. “Through citizen science, I hope we can make environmental science more accessible.”