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Status and needs of environmental education related organizations in Wisconsin: results from the 2015-2016 state-wide survey

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Hougham, J., S. Kerlin, K. Liddicoat, K. Ellis, and E. Crampe. 2017. A technical report from University of Wisconsin-Extension,Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education, Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education, and the 2015 Wisconsin Environmental Education Consortium.

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Science Education Feature: Caddisflies

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Learn about the ecosystem benefits of net-spinning caddisflies, as well as how they interact with their environment, from Ben Tumolo, a visiting Ph.D. candidate from Montana State University. Caddisflies are…

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Water SCIENCE Wins Award in Video Showcase

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The Water SCIENCE curriculum has middle school students complete hands-on science and engineering activities, receive guidance and instruction from undergraduate and graduate student mentors, interact online with STEM professionals, and…

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Water Quality Mobile App

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The Stroud Center’s Water Quality mobile app is a water-monitoring data-collection and learning tool designed for use by educators and their students, citizen scientists, and researchers. The app helps users…

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Clean by Design

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38 Master of Landscape Architecture students from the University of Pennsylvania visited Stroud Water Research Center to learn about protecting clean fresh water through land use and best management practices. Distinguished Research Scientist and President Bern Sweeney, Ph.D., led the program.

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Meet Jennifer Totora, Stroud’s New Education Specialist

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Totora brings more than 15 years of combined environmental education and field work experience. A self-proclaimed “STEMinist,” she has a passion for sharing the wonders of the natural world with kids of all ages and a specific interest in inspiring underserved girls to become the next leaders in science and engineering.

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Students Take to the Woods to Monitor Streamside Forests

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This spring, more than 130 students helped Stroud Center educators and watershed restoration staff monitor streamside forests in the Middle-Schuylkill and Brandywine-Christina watersheds.

Stroud Water Research Center Streamside Classroom Project

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This project enhances our streamside classroom along White Clay Creek at Stroud Water Research Center with the construction of three educational kiosks and various interpretive signs and seating areas. Interpretive…

Collaborative Research: Introducing Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) Science to Students and Teachers

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The Critical Zone encompasses the external or near-surface Earth extending from the top of the vegetation canopy down to and including the zone of freely circulating groundwater. This project engages…

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Education Programs Reach New and Bigger Audiences

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Our 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.