Stroud Water Research Center
Stroud Water Research Center
This project involved an experimental planting of 600 trees and shelters on 2.1 acres of riparian land along Crum Creek in Paoli, Pa. The project was designed to test the…
The Watershed Biogeochemistry Group works on identifying the presence of organic carbon molecules and determining their role in the stream ecosystem.
The Entomology Group studies the distribution, abundance, and role of invertebrates in stream and river ecosystems, and their response to human activities.
The Fish Ecology Group works to determine why fish in streams have the distributions they do.
The Fluvial Geomorphology Group studies the movement of water, sediment, organic matter, nutrients and other molecules through watersheds.
Ensign, S.H., and C. Currin. 2017. Wetlands 37(2):245–256.
The Microbiology Group focuses on the composition, distribution, and roles of microbial communities, as well as their interactions with environments.
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.
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.
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…