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Meet Marc Peipoch, New Principal Investigator

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Peipoch’s goal is to lead a productive, inclusive, and interdisciplinary research team: “In its very nature, the discipline of ecosystem ecology is a nexus for multiple perspectives and areas of expertise, which when put together can really tell us how ecosystems work and respond.”

Would You Drink the Water?

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Stroud Water Research Center collaborated with senior students in the horticulture program at the Williamson College of the Trades on their 2018 Philadelphia Flower Show exhibit entitled “Would You Drink the Water?”

Rodale Institute, Stroud Water Research Center, Announce Innovative Partnership to Curb Ag Runoff Across 4 States

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Supported with a nearly $6 million grant from the William Penn Foundation, the partners begin a new 6-year project to connect farming to cleaner drinking water in the Delaware River Watershed.

A fence keeps cows away from the stream.

“We’ve All Got to Be Good Neighbors”

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Barclay Hoopes’ family has been farming in Landenberg, Pennsylvania, since 1854. He knows how he treats his land affects thousands of people downstream — it sits at the headwaters of White Clay Creek, which makes its way into Delaware and provides drinking water to more than 100,000 people.

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Particulate organic matter (POM) composition in stream runoff following large storms: role of POM sources, particle size, and event characteristics

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Johnson, E.R., S. Inamdar, J. Kan, and R. Vargas. 2018. Journal of Geophysical Research 123(2):660–675.

Stroud Center scientists Diana Oviedo-Vargas, Jinjun Kan, and Lou Kaplan sample a Costa Rican stream

Science Seminar: Climate Change and Our Watershed

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Sponsored by Citadel Federal Credit Union
Join Diana Oviedo-Vargas, Ph.D., as she explores the role of streams and rivers in the global carbon cycle. Learn about greenhouse gas emissions from our waters, their feedbacks on climate, and how the work of Stroud Center’s scientists can help us understand and mitigate some of the consequences of the changing climate on aquatic ecosystems.

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Impacts of hydrous manganese oxide on the retention and lability of dissolved organic matter

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Stuckey, J.W., C. Goodwin, J. Wang, L.A. Kaplan, P. Vidal-Esquivel, T.P. Beebe Jr., and D.L. Sparks. 2018. Geochemical Transactions 19:6.

Ecosystem Ecology Group

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About the Group The Ecosystem Ecology Group focuses on interactions among physical, chemical, and biological elements of riverine ecosystems that organize ecological behavior at local and regional scales. We are…