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Study: 100-Foot Wide Forest Keeps Streams Healthy

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New literature review shows streamside forest buffers should be at least 100 feet wide on each side to protect freshwater ecosystems from human activities.

Q3ESTRELLAS site, Peru Project.

Los biólogos realizan experimentos para evaluar la salud de los arroyos del Perú

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El Centro Amazónico de Educación Ambiental e Investigación (ACEER) y el Centro de Investigación del Agua Stroud presentarán seminarios para el público.

A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Community-developed geoscience cyberinfrastructure

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Richard, S. M., G. Pearthree, A.K. Aufdenkampe, J. Cutcher-Gershenfeld, M. Daniels, B. Gomez, D. Kinkade, and G. Percivall. 2014 . Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 95(20):165–166.

Planning phase — Protecting and Restoring Places of Ecological Significance (Brandywine-Christina and Middle Schuylkill Clusters)

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Stroud Center scientists participated with several collaborators in the development of restoration and protection implementation plans for targeted watersheds in the Brandywine-Christina and Middle Schuylkill clusters in the Delaware River…

Monitoring, Evaluation, Scientific Support, and Capacity Building for Watershed Protection and Restoration Projects: Entomological Collections

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The goal of this project is to collect and interpret entomological data from 35 stream sites. These sites represent an initial baseline as part of ANSDU’s comprehensive monitoring and technical…

Earthcube Domain End-User Workshop: Engaging the Critical Zone Community to Bridge Long-Tail Science With Big Data

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This workshop served two objectives: (1) to engage approximately 45 cyber-literate Critical Zone scientists in the EarthCube process and (2) to inform about 20 of EarthCube’s cyberscientists of the diversity…

Ecotoxicity Study for Mayflies Exposed to Ambient Stream Water From the Upper Delaware Basin and to Produced Water From Natural Gas Drilling

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The production of natural gas from the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania results in water that travels up through the well bore. This water generally has high concentrations of various salts…

Comparative Lifecycle and Toxicity Testing of Multiple Mayfly Species Across a Gradient of Total Dissolved Solids, With Methods Development for Native Species in the Central Appalachian Coal Fields

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Many water quality standards for pollutants in streams are based on laboratory toxicity tests that rely on macroinvertebrate species that are easy to handle in the laboratory. Unfortunately, these standard…

Water Quality Assessment in California Using DNA Barcoding

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This pilot study was designed to test how the use of a new technology called DNA barcoding can improve water quality assessment in California streams by enabling researchers to identify…