Stroud Water Research Center
Stroud™ Water Research Center scientists and educators are advancing knowledge and stewardship of freshwater systems on five continents.
Stroud Water Research Center has expanded on 20 years of research on tropical streams near the Maritza Biological Station in northwest Costa Rica, which provides the framework of this study,…
By Jamie Blaine Rafa Morales, station manager at Maritza Biological Station in Costa Rica, with Jamie Blaine, author. Photo: Stephen M. Stroud When Bern Sweeney describes Rafa Morales, the job…
“Our work at Maritza is critical to our mission. It has enabled us to understand global water and climate issues in ways we could not have done without it.”
Brookshire, E.N.J., L.O. Hedin, J.D. Newbold, D.M. Sigman, and J.K. Jackson. 2012. Nature Geoscience 5:123–126.
Naturally occurring differences in temperature, rainfall, and hydrological characteristics of tropical landscapes will yield useful information about how climate variation and change may impact the diverse species that populate our planet, and teach us more about climate feedbacks to carbon cycling processes.
Findlay, R.H., C. Yeates, M.A.J. Hullar, D.A. Stahl, and L.A. Kaplan. 2008. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74:3014–3021.
Kim, S., L.A. Kaplan, and P.G. Hatcher. 2006. Limnology and Oceanography 51:1054–1063.
Frazier, S.W., L.A. Kaplan, and P.G. Hatcher. 2005. Environmental Science and Technology 39:1479–1491.
A National Science Foundation grant for a study in the Amazon could help unravel the mystery of the missing carbon sink.