Stroud Water Research Center
The Rock Pack Experiment combines STEM topics of engineering, ecology, geomorphology, and mathematics through the world of the net-spinning caddisfly.
The Leaf Pack Network® is an international network of teachers, students, and citizen monitors investigating their local stream ecosystems.
We are excited to announce major improvements to the Leaf Pack Network, an international network of teachers, students, and citizen monitors investigating their local stream ecosystems.
Join Stroud Water Research Center Entomologist, David Funk, for an underwater journey during this informative lecture about the life in our streams.
A new online field guide promises to be an important tool for monitoring water quality and learning how to correctly identify freshwater insects.
We’ll demonstrate site features and functionality and cover how this open educational resource can be used to support macroinvertebrate identification training with volunteers and students to improve confidence, accuracy, and engagement.
Through the accurate and precise identification of these organisms, you will be better prepared to record taxonomic data for biomonitoring programs.
By creating these teaching tools for other students to learn about freshwater ecosystems, the students developed their own curiosity about their outdoor environment.
Hydropsychid caddisflies spin silk mesh nets that they use to filter feed. These nets are important ecosystem engineering structures in flowing waters.
Spoiler alert! These are the ANSWERS for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission Facebook #MysteryMacro questions featuring photos by Stroud Center entomologist Dave Funk.