Stroud Water Research Center
When mayfly populations decline, it’s a warning that something has gone wrong. But what? Stroud Center scientists and their colleagues are investigating.
Miller, M.P., E.W. Boyer, D.M. McKnight, M.G. Brown, R.S. Gabor, C.T. Hunsaker, L. Iavorivska, S. Inamdar, D.W. Johnson, L.A. Kaplan, H. Lin, W.H. McDowell, and J.N. Perdrial. 2016. Water Resources Research 52(10):8202–8216.
The project evaluated water quality in White Clay Creek and its tributaries and encouraged efforts to assess, improve, and protect water quality in the watershed.
Stroud Water Research Center applied its decades of experience to an integrated research and education project in headwaters of the Amazon.
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.
A study of a third order drainage basin in Pennsylvania, examining stream and watershed characteristics associated with riparian zone restoration and reforestation.
This project is an effort to assess stream water quality throughout the 1,900-square mile Schuylkill River basin in southeastern Pennsylvania by sampling the macroinvertebrates that live on the stream bottom.
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.
Leech D.M., S.H. Ensign, and M. Piehler. 2016. Aquatic Sciences 78(4):823–836.
Oviedo-Vargas D., D. Dierick, D.P. Genereux, and S.F. Oberbauer. 2016. Biogeochemistry 130(1–2):69–83.