Stroud Water Research Center
Eighteen educators, conservation workers, and government officials from Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, Mexico and Texas were introduced to the Leaf Pack Experiment and Watershed Tour and agreed to present a similar workshop within six months of their return home.
The Mountaintop to Tap exhibit, which records the three-week trek of a diverse group of high school students who traced New York City’s drinking water supply from its headwaters in the Catskill Mountains to Central Park, was on display at the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development’s Erpf Gallery, the Queens Museum of Art and the Sidney Public Library.
Avon Grove Charter School and the Stroud Center will hold a public event to enlist community members in monitoring the health of their local streams.
Being able to reach out to 500 million Spanish speakers around the world will do a lot to promote a freshwater stewardship movement across many borders.
Stroud Center educators worked with faculty at the Upland Country Day School in Pennsylvania to develop, implement and evaluate educational materials to increase quantitative, data collection, and analytical skills through the study of watersheds.
Members of the education department participated in the Schuylkill Learning Community, an association of William Penn Foundation grantees working on projects in Pennsylvania’s Schuylkill River watershed.
In partnership with Hudson Basin River Watch and Riverkeeper, Stroud Center educators trained teachers in the New York City watershed in stream ecology and the Leaf Pack Experiment through a series of two-day workshops.
Stroud Center educators and entomologists joined together to test the effectiveness of leaf packs as easy-to-use monitoring devices for citizen groups.
Stroud Center educators, along with the Central Bucks School District, the Heritage Conservancy and the Peace Valley Nature Center, provided programming to 250 people to show the impact of almost four decades of suburban expansion, rural development, dam construction, and environmental regulations on the region’s freshwater sources.
The goal of this project is to provide meaningful watershed experiences to underserved teachers and students in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.