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Graphic showing what percentage of nitrogen, sediments, and pesticides are kept out of a stream by a 100-foot tree buffer

The Restored Watershed: 50 Years of Solutions for Clean Fresh Water

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For the last 50 years scientists at Stroud Water Research Center have demonstrated the connection between good land-use practices and clean fresh water, between healthy soil and healthy water.

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Storm events restructured bacterial community and their biogeochemical potentials

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Kan, J. 2018. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 123(7):2257–2269.

Denis Newbold named a 2018 SFS Fellow

Denis Newbold Named SFS Fellow

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Society for Freshwater Science Fellows are the leaders, at national and international levels, of their areas of freshwater science.

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Get Your Freshwater Science Taxonomic Certification

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Through the accurate and precise identification of these organisms, you will be better prepared to record taxonomic data for biomonitoring programs.

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Diversity and distribution of anammox bacteria in water column and sediments of the Eastern Indian Ocean

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Gang Q., J. Wanga, J. Kan, X. Zhanga, Z. Xiaa, X. Zhanga, Y. Miaoa, and J. Sun. 2018. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation 133:52–62.

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Direct channel precipitation and storm characteristics influence short‐term fallout radionuclide assessment of sediment source

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Karwan, D.L., J.E. Pizzuto, R. Aalto, J. Marquard, A. Harpold, K. Skalak, A. Benthem, D.F. Levia, C.M. Siegert, and A.K. Aufdenkampe. 2018. Water Resources Research, 54. 

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Research Reveals Caddisflies are Ecosystem Engineers

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Hydropsychid caddisflies spin silk mesh nets that they use to filter feed. These nets are important ecosystem engineering structures in flowing waters.

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Scientists Monitor New Wetland Designed for Flood Control and Improved Stream Habitat

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Because of flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation provided Stroud Water Research Center with a $3 million grant to reduce flooding across the 1,800-acre White Clay Creek watershed by 40 percent.

Experimental Streamside Forest Restoration to Improve Water Quality – Dixon Property

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This project involved an experimental planting of 600 trees and shelters on 1.8 acres of riparian land along Buck Run in East Fallowfield Township, Pennsylvania. The project was designed to…