Stroud Water Research Center
Peipoch, M., and H.M. Valett. 2019. River Research and Applications, early online access.
To measure how fast algae grow while they are floating downstream, Stroud Center scientists floated, along with the algae, for an afternoon in canoes.
Clara Mendoza-Lera’s research will investigate the burden that heavy storms and flooding, worsened by climate change, place on stream ecosystem health.
When a stream’s normal ecosystem is disturbed, the growth of a normally beneficial species can explode and cause problems.
Research Technician, Environmental Educator
Slippery, shiny, and available in varying shades of green, slime is the latest research interest of two Stroud Water Research Center scientists.
Peipoch’s goal is to lead a productive, inclusive, and interdisciplinary research team: “In its very nature, the discipline of ecosystem ecology is a nexus for multiple perspectives and areas of expertise, which when put together can really tell us how ecosystems work and respond.”
Assistant Research Scientist
The recovery of biological communities after disturbance has always been at the core of ecology as a discipline. While much is known about how interactive effects of flow velocity and…
After 25 years of litigation, ecological restoration is under way in the Upper Clark Fork River, Montana. The restoration includes removal of metal-laden floodplain soils, lowering of the floodplain to…