Stroud Water Research Center
She found a purpose making water data accessible. Now she’s pursuing graduate research in the watershed where she empowered community scientists.
Stroud Water Research Center is honored to have received the Watershed Heroes Nonprofit Steward award from Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership.
Women represent nearly half of the U.S. workforce but only 27% of STEM workers. The Stroud Center is aiming to change that in its area of influence: freshwater science.
How the Clean Water Act changed the trajectory of America’s waterways and became a beacon for freshwater science.
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.”
As part of the Milton Hershey School’s Agriculture and Environmental Education pathway, the students are taking the computer science skills they learn in the classroom and applying them to real-world problems in the field.