In the News

2010

• April 21, 2010 BCTV.org, Nancy Kauffman
  Monitors find healthy signs in Hay Creek near Birdsboro
  In the field with Stroud Water Research Center's entomology team as they monitor the health of the Schuylkill River watershed. Read more and view photos at: http://www.bctv.org/citizen_reports/article_46164d54-4d74-11df-be30-001cc4c002e0.html
  
  
• January/February 2010 StormH2O.com
  Leaf Pack: Breaking New Ground by Studying Bugs
  David C. Richardson writes in the professional journal Stormwater that Forest Grove Community School in Oregon and Mahopac High School in New York are just two of the schools that are using the Leaf Pack Experiment and getting results that are making a real difference to their communities. Read more at: http://www.stormh20.com/january-february-2010/leaf-pack-bugs.aspx
  
  

2009

• November 9, 2009 Rodale.com
  Drilling for Natural Gas Jeopardizes Clean Water
  Journalist Leah Zerbe of Rodale News reports on the process of natural gas fracking and the potential hazards to our limited supply of drinking water. "Anytime that we consider something like mining for coal or drilling for gas, all of those processes need to be viewed through a lens of environmental protection and sustainability," says Lou Kaplan, senior scientist at the Stroud Water Research Center. Read more at: http://www.rodale.com/natural-gas-drilling
  
  
• October 19, 2009 The News Journal and DelawareOnline.com
  Team to study human effect on watershed
  With data from a new Critical Zone Observatory in the Christina River Basin, scientists are hoping to answer questions about how earth movement caused by humans is affecting the carbon cycle and may affect climate change.
  
  
• October 4, 2009 The News Journal and DelawareOnline.com
  Trees improve the health of our waterways
  Research shows that the single most important factor in determining the quality of a stream’s water is the amount of forested land in its watershed. Our Op Ed piece ran in The News Journal of Wilmington, DE.
  
  
• July 10, 2009 WHYY.org and WHYY Radio, Kerry Grens
  Scientists catalog species with "barcode" gene
  The International Barcode of Life (iBOL) project, which hopes to assemble a DNA sequence library of the world's species using barcode technology, has appointed Dr. Bernard W. Sweeney, Director of the Stroud™ Water Research Center, to head its Freshwater Surveillance group. WHYY health and science reporter, Kerry Grens, asked Bern Sweeney, director of the Stroud Water Research Center and head of its Freshwater Surveillance Group, to explain the project further and to highlight its significance. To read the news clip or listen to an audio version, go to: http://whyy.org/cms/news/health-science/2009/07/10/scientists-catalog-species-with-barcode-gene/11889

2008

• November 4, 2008 The News Journal and DelawareOnline.com, Hiran Ratnayake
  For Drinking Water, Safe Doesn’t Mean Pure
  Have you ever stopped to consider the source of your drinking water, what it takes to keep it safe and what exactly is in it? The News Journal’s Health Reporter, Hiran Ratnayake, decided to investigate for himself.
  
  
• October 24, 2008 Al Día, Adriana Arvizo
  No hay que ser científico para medir calidad del agua
  Central and South American educators, conservation workers and representatives from government agencies came to Stroud Water Research Center to learn the techniques the Center has developed to educate people about fresh water issues and monitor the sources of their fresh water. Participants will return home and give workshops of their own so that these simple techniques will spread around the world. The workshop is based on the Leaf Pack, a simple teaching and monitoring tool developed at the Center and now marketed nationally by the LaMotte Co. of Chestertown, MD.
  
  
• September 22, 2008 The Daily Local, Rebekah Nesmith
  Charter School to Assist Water Testing Program
  The Avon Grove Charter School, with support from the educators at the Stroud™ Water Research Center, will kick off World Water Monitoring Month with a public event on September 23rd designed to enlist community members in monitoring the health of their local streams—an important source of their drinking water.
  
  
• September 16, 2008 The News Journal, Bernard W. Sweeney
  We All Have a Role in Protecting Drinking Water
  World Water Monitoring Day, September 18th, marks the beginning of a month of activities intended by its organizers to build global awareness and get individuals—and entire communities— involved in protecting their drinking water supplies. With this in mind, Bernard Sweeney, senior scientist and director of the Stroud Water Research Center, reflects on what each of us can do in that regard.
  
  
• September 14, 2008 The Reading Eagle, Darrin Youker
  A River Runs Through Us
  This special, multi-part series explores the state of the Schuylkill River. John K. Jackson, senior research scientist at the Stroud Water Research Center, who has studied the river and its tributaries for more than a decade, states that the Schuylkill River’s health reflects the development of southeastern Pennsylvania and its water quality is "fair". To read the article or see related video go to: http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=105669
  
  
• July 30, 2008 MSN Money, PR Newswire
  Fish ecologist and geneticist, Dr. William H. Eldridge, of the School of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences at the University of Washington, has joined the Stroud Water Research Center to launch its Fish Molecular Ecology Department.
  
  
• July 30, 2008 PA8NewsGroup.com, Larissa Sapko
  Testing Bugs at Stroud
  Support from the National Science Foundation and the William Penn foundation has allowed the Stroud Water Research Center to support anywhere from 12-34 interns every summer—enabling them to participate in the Center’s research programs and gain invaluable work experience.
  
  
• July 25, 2008 WHYY.org, Kerry Grens
  Reducing Pollution in Pennsylvania Streams
  The role of streamside forests in reducing pollution in Pennsylvania’s streams is a subject Bernard W. Sweeney and the scientists at the Stroud Water Research Center have studied extensively, which is why WHYY came to us to learn more.
  
  
• May 5, 2008 Thirteen.org, WNET New York
  Is NYC's Water Supply Protected for the Future?
  Bernard Sweeney, Ph.D., Director of Stroud Water Research Center, presented “Taking Stock of New York City’s Drinking Water,” at a symposium hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences on May 15th, 2008.
  
  
• April 21, 2008 NBC10.com, Leah Zerbe
  Is Your Water Polluted? These Critters Will Tell You
  As part of its Earth Day 2008 coverage, NBC10.com wanted to arm its readers with useful information about what they could do to protect their rivers and streams from pollutants that can adversely affect the freshwater ecosystem. They visited with senior research scientist and entomologist, John K. Jackson at the Stroud Water Research Center to understand more about the bugs in our rivers and streams and their important role.
  
  
• March 10, 2008 CBS News, Nancy Cordes
  Probe: Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water
  AP reporters Jeff Donn and Martha Mendoza, broke their story, Drugs Found in Drinking Water, in March, 2008. The public was alarmed to learn that there are unregulated substances in our drinking water for which the impact on humans is not fully understood. This report, which cited research scientist, Anthony Aufdenkampe, because of the Stroud Water Research Center’s extensive New York City Watershed project data, created a maelstrom of media activity around the world as individuals began to question what they had always taken for granted — the quality of the water they consume every day. To see the article and CBS video, go to: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/10/health/main3920454_page2.shtml