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Stroud Scientists & Educators PresentDisseminating Our Findings to our Peers & the Public at LargeOur ability to disseminate our findings to a broad audience allows us to increase awareness and create a public dialogue centered on the protection, preservation and restoration of watersheds everywhere. It’s for that reason that our scientists and educators engage in both scientific and public forums to share their findings. The following highlights recent presentations.
Bern Sweeney, senior research scientist and director of the Stroud™ Water Research Center, presented Investing in Clean Water: What do Streamside Trees Have to do with Water Quality? to policy makers and the public in both Leesport and Conshohocken, Pennsylvania at the Berks County Agricultural Center and Montgomery County Fire Academy in October. Sweeney’s presentations, based on research by the Center, focused on the planting of trees as a cost-effective way to protect our drinking water supply. These lectures, part of a larger program funded by William Penn Foundation and focused on the Schuylkill River watershed, are designed to educate public officials about how to craft municipal ordinances to ensure better protection of their freshwater resources. In addition, as part of a Stream and Buffer Ecology Workshop sponsored by the PA Bureau of Forestry, Chesapeake Bay Foundation & PA Department of Conservation on October 29th, Sweeney discussed the Center’s buffer research findings and provided a helpful resource list to assist attendees in moving forward on their own plans to plant streamside forests. Among the attendees were representatives from the Department of Environmental Protection, Board of Fisheries, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, Pennsylvania Builders Association, and the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. Stroud education programs manager, Kristen Travers, addressed the 6th Annual, Lebanon/Lancaster County Watershed Forum in Quentin, Pennsylvania on October 25th, with her presentation, The Benefits of Streamside Forests and Their Relationship to Water Quality. Research demonstrates that forested streams are healthier and in a better position to help process contaminants that do enter our streams. Forested streams reduce flooding, create habitat for wildlife and save taxpayers money by reducing the requirements for treatment and filtration. To learn more about the benefits of Streamside Forests, check out these downloadable fact sheets: To read the media’s coverage of the Lebanon/Lancaster County Watershed Forum go to Lancaster Online at: THE ROLE OF TROPICAL RIVERS IN REGIONAL AND GLOBAL CARBON BUDGETS Stroud scientist Anthony Aufdenkampe, presented The Role of Tropical Rivers in Regional and Global Carbon Budgets on September 17th to an audience of faculty and graduate students from University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Biology. Aufdenkampe reviewed his work to date in the Amazon and shared preliminary results of a three-year collaborative study that explores the role of extreme flood events during La Niña in burying — and thus preventing from entering the atmosphere — globally significant quantities of carbon. For more information on Aufdenkampe’s work go to:
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