Stroud Scientists at Work Under the Microscope: Introducing Jinjun Kan, Microbial Ecologist650,000 years ago the pressure release from a magma chamber beneath a supervolcano created a massive explosion that formed a physical depression known today as the Yellowstone Caldera in Yellowstone National Park, WY. The stunningly beautiful, freshwater lake that sits on this caldera is home to some interesting microbes and the subject of exciting research by Jinjun Kan, the Microbial Ecologist who will join the Stroud Water Research Center in the spring. More

Stroud Educators at Work The Whole River: Dividing a River into Parts, Claiming It for Economic Use, Ignoring Its Natural Community, We Lose Sight of the River Itself
Rivers around the world no longer run regularly to the sea. The Colorado stopped doing so in 1960, and China's Yellow River runs dry for two thirds of the year. More than half the world's rivers are seriously depleted and polluted. The Ganges is befouled almost from its source, while the Volga annually transports 42 million tons of toxic waste to the Caspian Sea. More

How To Create Carbon Neutral Landscapes: The New, Green Esthetic This year Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania will greet nearly 800,000 visitors, each of whom will walk its grounds and take in the views that have made the botanical gardens a destination for travelers from around the world. Longwood's access to such a large audience with an expressed interest in landscape esthetics and horticulture is exactly what made collaborating with them a no-brainer for Stroud™ Water Research Center scientists and educators who wish to highlight the environmental benefits of best management practices for landscaping while simultaneously reshaping the public's visual aesthetic to align with more carbon neutral choices. More

Outreach

The Stroud Memorial Lecture Series To Present Wade Davis,
National Geographic Explorer in Residence “I remember one time in college, one of those classic moments we all went through, sitting around with a group of friends, everyone in quiet desperation trying to figure out and suggest what they were going to become in life,” said Wade Davis as he reminisced about his years at Harvard University. “It was simply inconceivable to me that you could find a single slot into which to plug an entire existence.” More

It's a Wrap: Recapping Our 3rd Annual Wild and Scenic
Environmental Film Festival From a corn field in Iowa to the dead zone that is now the Gulf of Mexico, two young men traded their combine for a canoe and embarked on a journey, to trace the environmental impact of the agricultural practices of our industrial food system. They share what they learned in Big River, just one of the 12 independent films and documentaries shown at this year's Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival on February 11th. More

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In the News Leaf Pack: Breaking New Ground by Studying Bugs David C. Richardson writes in the professional journal Stormwater magazine about Forest Grove Community School in Oregon and Mahopac High School in New York, two of the schools that are using the Leaf Pack Experiment^® and getting results that are making a real difference to their communities. More

Well Water Contamination by a Gasoline Additive Stroud™ Water Research Center scientist Anthony Aufdenkampe describes how the insidious chemical, methyl tertiary butyl ether or MTBE, which is added to gasoline to reduce knocking, is leaching into our groundwater and how it may remain there for centuries, in an article published by the American Water Works Association published in November. More

Drilling for Natural Gas Jeopardizes Clean Water Journalist Leah Zerbe of Rodale News reports on the process of natural gas fracking and asks Stroud™ scientist Lou Kaplan for information on the potential hazards to our limited supply of drinking water, due to the consumptive nature of the process and the variety of chemicals involved. More

Stroud Scientists & Educators Present Disseminating Our Findings to our Peers & the Public at Large Our 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.

Addressing Public Health Issues at the Source
The Use of DNA Barcoding in Water Analysis
Harvesting Rainwater
Water Where You Want it
Streamside Forest Buffers Preserving Water Quality