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UpStream Newsletter, Fall 2011

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Gone Fishin’: Evaluating the Threat of Agricultural Contaminants in the Río SierpeThis article has moved.The Magic of Revealing the Mysteries of MetaecosystemsBy Diane HuskinsonAbracadabra“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from…

Map of sampling sites in the Rio Sierpe and Grande de Terraba watersheds in Costa Rica.

Gone Fishin’: Evaluating the Threat of Agricultural Contaminants in the Río Sierpe

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Stroud Center scientists sampled the Río Sierpe and Grande de Terraba watersheds to identify contaminants as well as contaminated species that threaten humans who consume them.

Screenshot of Model My Watershed web app

Model My Watershed® Reaches Students and Teachers

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The web app has a dynamic, videogame-like interface that lets students see how modifying land use in their own neighborhoods can affect water quality.

Olivia Newton-John embracing her husband John Easterling.

Olivia Newton-John, John Easterling Honored for Role in Amazon Conservation

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The Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence is awarded to those who contribute broadly to the conservation and protection of fresh water.

Screenshot of the Model My Watershed web app.

Stroud Center Projects Featured at National STEM Event

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The hands-on interactive nature of the Model My Watershed® and Critical Zone Observatory projects received considerable attention from both speakers and educators.

Photo of microbes by Jinjun Kan.

Stroud Center Awarded Grant to Study Meta-Ecosystems

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Scientists are using new knowledge to provide an update of the River Continuum Concept and develop a broad model of carbon cycling.

White Clay Creek flooding across a roadway near the Stroud Center.

Scientists to Collect Water Quality and Climate Change Data From Hurricane Irene

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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.

Fly River in Papua New Guinea.

UpStream Newsletter, Summer 2011

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The difference between the organic materials that enter and leave a river system tells us how the river affects greenhouse gases.

Rio Sierpe, Costa Rica.

Stroud Center Awarded Grant to Study Agricultural Contaminants

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Pesticides and other contaminants from agriculture pose an unknown threat to the Rio Sierpe ecosystem and to humans who eat contaminated fish and shellfish.

Brandywine Trek students at orientation.

Brandywine Trek Helps Students Spur Freshwater Stewardship

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The trek educates students about the importance of the Brandywine River and fosters understanding of the need to implement good stewardship practices.