Stroud Water Research Center
Learn how excessive salt affects life in freshwater streams and how a local community group is raising awareness and changing behavior around salt.
There are some questions too complicated for lab experiments to answer.
Sweeney, B.W., J.M. Battle, D.H. Funk, R.W. Flowers, T. Gonzales Ojeda, A. Huamantinco, J.K. Jackson, and M. Arnold. 2020. Limnologica, early online access.
Kolpas, A., D.H. Funk, J.K. Jackson, and B.W. Sweeney. 2019. Ecological Modeling 416, 108892
How salty is too salty? Road salt keeps travelers safe in winter but can pose a serious threat to nearby streams. Episode 5 in the “Stories from the Streams” series from WHYY TV12.
Funk, D.H., B.W. Sweeney, and J.K. Jackson. 2019. Freshwater Science, early online access.
Strayer, D.L., J. Geist, W.R. Haag, J.K. Jackson, and J.D. Newbold. 2019. Conservation Science and Practice 1(7):e53.
Bressler, D.W., J.K. Jackson, M.J. Ehrhart, and D.B. Arscott. 2019. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 9(1):24–27.
“I feel like the farm is our living laboratory, and I look at farming like an entomologist. It’s an integrated system, and I’m never bored.”
Low-cost, open-source data collectors and a suite of collaborative online tools are making big leaps in the field of watershed monitoring.