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Microbiology Group

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The Microbiology Group focuses on the composition, distribution, and roles of microbial communities, as well as their interactions with environments.

A man and woman secure a stream autosampler before Hurrican Irene.

Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Group

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The Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Group studies the cycles of energy and nutrients in streams and rivers and the impact of contamination on water quality.

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Mystery Midge with “Kite Tail” Eggs

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Stroud Center entomologist David Funk documented the unusual behavior of an orthoclad midge species at Lake Umbagog on the Maine/New Hampshire border: Adult females fly over the lake and extrude long strings of eggs which they eventually drop into the water.

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Q & A: Rewarding Private Behavior to Enhance the Commons

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Stroud Center president Bern Sweeney, Ph.D., and Jamie Blaine published an op-ed piece in the September 2016 issue of Freshwater Science proposing a new system to reward private behavior to…

Bern Sweeney looks over a level lip spreader

Partnership in Cover Crop Research Bears Fruit

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Cover cropping coach, Steve Groff, explains in Lancaster Farming how a project at Meadow Springs Farm is a rare opportunity for Stroud Water Research Center scientists to closely observe and…

Technician using a qPCR machine.

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.

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Assessing chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) distribution, stocks, and fluxes in Apalachicola Bay using combined field, VIIRS ocean color, and model observations

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Joshi, I.D., E.J. D’Sa , C.L. Osburn, T.S. Bianchi, D.S. Ko, D. Oviedo-Vargas, A.R. Arellano, and N.D. Ward. 2017. Remote Sensing of Environment 191:359–372.

A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Colonization and diversification of aquatic insects on three Macronesian archipelagos using 59 nuclear loci derived from a draft genome

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Rutschmann, S., H. Detering, S. Simon, D.H. Funk, J-L. Gattolliat, S.J. Hughes, P.M. Raposeiro, R. DeSalle, M. Sartori, M.T. Monaghan. 2017. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 107:27–38.