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A woman kneeling in a stream collects a rock scraping sample for microbial analysis.

We’ve Missed This! Stroud Center Resumes Fish Monitoring

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It feels like a breath of fresh air for our research staff to resume our fish monitoring project in 37 streams of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

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Ghosts of landuse past: legacy effects of milldams for riparian nitrogen (N) processing and water quality functions

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Inamdar, S., M. Peipoch, A. Gold, E. Lewis, J. Hripto, M. Sherman, K. Addy, D. Merritts, J. Kan, et al. 2021. Environmental Research Letters 16: 035016.

Photo of a farm with a large muddy area with cattle.

A Small Farm Offers Big Opportunities for Measuring Watershed Restoration Success

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Stream restorations rarely get monitored rigorously enough to determine if the “patient” has fully recovered.

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Distinct distribution of Archaea from soil to freshwater to estuary: implications of archaeal composition and function in different environments

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Wang, H., R.L. Bier, L. Zgleszewski, M. Peipoch, E. Omondi, A. Mukherjee, F. Chen, C. Zhang, and J. Kan. 2020. Frontier in Microbiology 11:576661.

Stephanie Bernasconi on a mountaintop.

Spotlight on Stephanie Bernasconi

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Bernasconi originally wanted to be a marine biologist but a semester on a sailing ship convinced her to stick to studying fresh water.

Diana Oviedo Vargas and Melinda Daniels in a Costa Rican forest.

Stream Reach: Building Communities from White Clay Creek to the Yangtze Basin

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To truly make a difference requires, not only understanding freshwater systems, but working with all kinds of communities to protect them.

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Stream restoration for legacy sediments at Gramies Run, Maryland: early lessons from implementation, water quality monitoring, and soil health

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Mattern, K., A. Lutgen, N. Sienkiewicz, G. Jiang , J. Kan, M. Peipoch, and S. Inamdar. 2020. Water 12(8):2164.

Don’t Stop Me Now! Studying the Effects of Milldam Removal

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Stroud Water Research Center scientists are investigating how milldam removal might affect groundwater and surface water quality.

Transforming Water Quality in the Sharitz Run Headwaters of Brandywine Creek

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This Watershed Renaissance Initiative grant will enable Stroud Water Research Center to implement extensive watershed restoration projects designed to capture and control excess water and sediment production from agricultural hillslopes.…

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Eastern oyster clearance and respiration rates in response to acute and chronic exposure to suspended sediment loads

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La Peyre, M.K., S. Bernasconi, R. Lavaud, S.M. Casas, and J.F. La Peyrec. 2020. Journal of Sea Research 157, 101831.