Stroud Water Research Center
Stroud Center promotes Dave Arscott to executive director and Bern Sweeney to distinguished research scientist.
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.
The WikiWatershed toolkit was awarded the 2017 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
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.
Stroud Water Research Center is working with Delaware River Watershed Initiative partner organizations to grow their network of volunteers and enhance the quality and quantity of the data they collect.
The Stroud Center celebrated National Volunteer Week with help from Exelon Generation, BB&T, Cheshire Hunt Conservancy, Colonial Pipeline, Dansko, Hugh Lofting Timber Framing, and local community members.
Payton Shonk was honored for his Eagle Scout project, an education kiosk, at the Stroud Center’s dedication of a new outdoor classroom.
“I think science can be a little intimidating,” Bressler says. “Through citizen science, I hope we can make environmental science more accessible.”
Stroud Center scientists are using DNA to identify the likely sources of fecal bacteria in streams, a potential human health risk.
Water treatment facilities have procedures in place to make water safe for drinking. But the dirtier the water, the greater the cost to treat it.