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DNA Tool Helps Scientists Identify Bacteria in Streams

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Stroud Center scientists are using DNA to identify the likely sources of fecal bacteria in streams, a potential human health risk.

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Archaea dominate the ammonia-oxidizing community in deep-sea sediments of the Eastern Indian Ocean – from the Equator to the Bay of Bengal

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Wang, J., J. Kan, X. Zhang, Z. Xia, X. Zhang, G. Qian, Y. Miao, X. Leng, and J. Sun. 2017. Frontiers in Microbiology 8:415.

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Influence of experimental extreme water pulses on greenhouse gas emissions from soils

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Petrakis, S., A. Seyfferth, J. Kan, S. Inamdar, and R. Vargas. 2017. Biogeochemistry 133(2):147–164.

Pathogen and Water-Quality Monitoring at White Clay Creek

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As part of a plan to meet new drinking water regulations, United Water Delaware (UWDE) applied best management practices at several dairy farms in the White Clay Creek and Red…

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From Stream to Tap: Keeping Fresh Water Clean and Safe

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Water treatment facilities have procedures in place to make water safe for drinking. But the dirtier the water, the greater the cost to treat it.

Two women and a man identifying aquatic insects at a workshop in Peru.

The Peru Project

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Stroud Water Research Center applied its decades of experience to an integrated research and education project in headwaters of the Amazon.

Map of the Área de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica

Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology: Costa Rica

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A study of small to intermediate size streams in the Área de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica, with the backdrop of a natural and successional mosaic.

Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology: White Clay Creek, Pennsylvania

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A study of a third order drainage basin in Pennsylvania, examining stream and watershed characteristics associated with riparian zone restoration and reforestation.

A tree growing on the banks of White Clay Creek above the remains of a stone dam.

Critical Zone Observatory

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A study of how soil erosion and sediment transport through rivers impacts the exchange of carbon between the land and the atmosphere and affects climate.