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Thermal Limitation in Aquatic Insects: Implications for Freshwater Biodiversity in a Warming World

 800 532 Stroud Water Research Center

This project tests the hypothesis that temperature limits the distributions of aquatic insects through its effect on resource allocation, and that warming decreases reproduction by shunting energy away from egg…

Delaware River Watershed Initiative Circuit Rider for Technical Assistance to Grantees

 800 532 Stroud Water Research Center

This project provides technical assistance to grantees of the William Penn Foundation and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to develop and implement watershed restoration efforts and grants to monitor the impact of projects implemented in the Delaware River Watershed Initiative clusters.

Entomologists collect freshwater insects for a project that examines the impact of streamside restoration on water quality.

Breaking the Fall

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How the Clean Water Act changed the trajectory of America’s waterways and became a beacon for freshwater science.

Students study fish temporarily removed from a nearby stream.

Rooted in Science

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30 years and counting, Stroud Water Research Center’s Education Department makes cutting-edge freshwater science fun.

Reclaiming the Commons: Some Thoughts on Rivers, Wildlife, and People

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By treating our commons as a resource to be exploited instead of a public trust to be protected, we threaten to destroy the very thing on which we depend.

Cloeon dipterum, female imago (adult).

Oxygen Not Behind Threat To Mayflies When Temps Rise

 800 450 Stroud Water Research Center

When stream temperatures rise, often as a result of climate change or thermal pollution or a lack of tree shade, mayflies display poorer growth.

Publication title with image of a mayfly

Transcriptomic and life history responses of the mayfly Neocloeon triangulifer to chronic diel thermal challenge

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Hsuan C., D.D. Jima, D.H. Funk, J.K. Jackson, B.W. Sweeney, and D.B. Buchwalter. 2020. Nature Scientific Reports 10:19119.

Transforming Water Quality in the Sharitz Run Headwaters of Brandywine Creek

 800 532 Stroud Water Research Center

This Watershed Renaissance Initiative grant will enable Stroud Water Research Center to implement extensive watershed restoration projects designed to capture and control excess water and sediment production from agricultural hillslopes.…

SFS Leaf Pack Workshop

 800 532 Stroud Water Research Center

Stroud Center staff and members of the Society for Freshwater Science Education and Diversity Committee held a Leaf Pack workshop prior to the society’s annual meeting. The workshop introduced educators…