Stroud Water Research Center
Open source technology is helping federal agencies collect high-quality environmental data without the hassle and high costs of proprietary options.
We shared our work with the broader scientific community, were inspired by the work of others, and mentored the next generation of freshwater scientists.
Stroud Center staff took a road trip to Michigan to train citizens and volunteers to use lower-cost, do-it-yourself technologies to monitor water quality.
“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.”
Citizen scientists are monitoring the health of local streams with the help of new technology. Episode 4 in the “Stories from the Streams” series from WHYY TV12.
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.
Stroud Water Research Center rolled out the red carpet for water systems experts from 23 countries who gathered to learn how to best protect their home countries’ water resources.
Hurricane data could reveal much about how soil erosion into rivers might bury carbon and sequester it from acting as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
The difference between the organic materials that enter and leave a river system tells us how the river affects greenhouse gases.