Stroud Water Research Center
To help citizen scientists become better volunteer stream monitors, we’ve partnered with Penn State Extension’s Master Watershed Steward program.
A year spent backpacking on the West Coast ignited a passion for fresh water in Maria Scarborough, the newest addition to our Entomology Group.
He’s excited to be working to further understanding of freshwater ecosystems and to improve these systems through research, education, and restoration.
Slippery, shiny, and available in varying shades of green, slime is the latest research interest of two Stroud Water Research Center scientists.
Her personal mission is to foster hands-on freshwater science education that teaches us about ourselves as well as our backyard water resources.
Through her work at the Stroud Center, Bier hopes to better understand how changes in farming practices on land affect the relationship between microbes and the processing of nutrients in streams.
Teachers experienced STEM education in a real-world setting giving them the tools to cultivate the next generation of freshwater stewards.
By creating these teaching tools for other students to learn about freshwater ecosystems, the students developed their own curiosity about their outdoor environment.
Because of flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation provided Stroud Water Research Center with a $3 million grant to reduce flooding across the 1,800-acre White Clay Creek watershed by 40 percent.
Students are not only learning how to protect our waterways; they are also conducting their own scientific research or restoring healthy streams — or sometimes both.