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STROUDWATER RESEARCH CENTER
2 U P S T R E A M • S P R I N G 2 0 0 3
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
John R.S. Fisher, DVM
Rodman W. Moorhead, III
Co-Chairmen
Joan Stroud Blaine
Amanda Cabot
Peter D. Davenport
Bernard David
Arthur Dunham, Ph.D.
William L. Elkins, M.D.
John J. Ennis, Esq.
Carol Ware Gates
Robert V.A. Harra, Jr.
Nathan W. Hayward, III
William Kronenberg, III
Barbara C. Riegel
Stephen M. Stroud
Paul V. Tebo
DIRECTOR EMERITUS
W. B. Dixon Stroud
STROUDWATER RESEARCH CENTER
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Message from the Director
International Year of Freshwater
Education
Jane Goodall is keynote speaker
Monitoring Mighty Mississippi
Community Connections
Lab & Field Currents
UpStream Festival 2003
Your gift to fresh water
ABOUT US
UpStream, the magazine of the Stroud Water Research Center,970 Spencer Road, Avondale, PA 19311, is published in thespring and fall each year.
The entire contents of the current UpStream is available on theStroud Center Web site, www.stroudcenter.org, in portabledocument format (PDF). Past issues are also available at thissite. Copyright. No. 2003-002 5M.
Spring 2003
ABOUT THE COVER
A stream in Costa Rica photographed by Mayra Bonilla.
PR O D U C T I O N C O O R D I N AT I O N
Kay Dixon
ED I T I N G & PR O O F R E A D I N G
James Blaine, Claire Birney
CO P Y & GR A P H I C S
David Yeats-Thomas
Printed on Recycled Paper with soy-based inks
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A d i f f e r e n t k i n d o f w a r
Amid all the talk of terror, interna-
tional turmoil and military sanctions,
there is a quiet, peaceful movement afoot
that could, at the end of the day, have an
even greater impact on the overall health,
safety, and tranquility of the 7 billion
humans who inhabit this planet. The
United Nations has designated 2003 the
“International Year of Fresh Water.” In
doing so, the UN has called on the peo-
ple of the world to “undertake actions,
programs and projects which encourage
as many sectors of the populations as
possible to be circumspect in their use of
the resource of water on which humans,
animals and plant life depend.” In the
face of so many other threats, this simple
call to action, which can make such a big
difference in the world, may go largely
unheard. That would be a tragedy.
Millions of people die every year
from either the lack of water or the lack
of clean water. Millions more suffer from
chronic illnesses that are caused by poor
water. Yet their plight is too often lost in
more spectacular headlines. Perhaps we
need to categorize polluted streams
and contaminated wells as acts of
public terror – after all, they stem from
the misdirected actions of humans, and
water-borne parasites kill just as blindly
as car bombs. Perhaps one reason we
don’t is because, in one way or another,
each of us plays a role in the act of dirty-
ing our water – and none of us wants to
look in the mirror and see a terrorist.
At the Stroud Center, we have
responded to the UN’s plea for action.
We have “called up the troops”. Our uni-
forms are white lab coats, chest waders
and chalk boards, and we are armed with
test tubes, mass spectrometers and envi-
ronmental education programs. Our aim
is to clean the water flowing through all
of our backyards, for the water molecules
here will eventually flow through back-
yards of Kenya or North Korea. Help the
world. Heed the UN’s plea. Support
clean water, and start right here at home.
Bern Sweeney
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F R O M T H E D I R E C T O R
‘. . . we are
armed with test
tubes, mass
spectrometers and
environmental
education
programs
’‘4 U P S T R E A M • S P R I N G 2 0 0 3
The United Nations has declared
2003 the International Year of Freshwater
to galvanize action on one of the world’s
most urgent crises.
More than one billion people do not
have access to clean drinking water, and
twice that many lack adequate sanitation
facilities. Tens of thousands of people,
mostly children, die daily from preventa-
ble water-related diseases. The depress-
ing statistics go on and on.
If present trends contin-
ue, said United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi
Annan, “Water is likely to
become a growing source of
tension and fierce competi-
tion between nations.”
Annan was speaking in
December at a special
United Nations event to
launch the International
Year of Freshwater. Flanked
by well-known environ-
mental activists such as folksinger Pete
Seeger and Hudson Riverkeeper Alex
Matthiessen, Annan said the ultimate goal
was to turn the problem into a “catalyst
for cooperation.”
“The International Year of
Freshwater can play a vital role in gener-
ating the action needed – not only by
governments but also by civil society,
communities, the business sector and
individuals all over the world,” said
Anan.
All l i fe affectedWithout a new approach to solving
the water crisis, the annual death toll
could reach 107 million by 2020, accord-
ing to “The World’s Water,” the
most recent biennial report on
freshwater resources compiled
by the Pacific Institute for
Studies in Development,
Environment, and Security, an
independent nonprofit research
organization.
Wild animal and plant life
are also threatened. In addition
to growing shortages of drink-
ing water for wild animals in
drought-prone regions of the
world, human development is
rapidly destroying the habitats of fresh-
water aquatic life.
“More than 20 percent of all fresh-
water fish species are now threatened or
endangered because dams and water
withdrawals have destroyed free-flowing
ecosystems where they thrive,” write
IN T E R N AT I O N A L YE A R O F FR E S H WAT E R
U n i t e d N a t i o n s s p o t l i g h t s w o r l d w a t e r c r i s i s
WaterYear2003
W a t e r i s
l i k e l y t o
b e c o m e a
g r o w i n g
s o u r c e o f
t e n s i o n a n d
f i e r c e
c o m p e t i t i o n
b e t w e e n
n a t i o n s .
P h o t o c o u r t e s y U N I C E F
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
’‘5U P S T R E A M • S P R I N G 2 0 0 3
I n Z a m b i a , c h i l d r e n d r i n k a n d
p l a y w i t h w a t e r f r o m a M a r k
I I h a n d p u m p f i n a n c e d b y
U N I C E F a t N t h o m b i m b i
P r i m a r y S c h o o l , a c o m m u n i t y
s c h o o l 4 0 k m f r o m t h e e a s t -
e r n t o w n o f C h i p a t a . U N I C E F -
a s s i s t e d c o m m u n i t y s c h o o l s
a r e s u b s t i t u t e s f o r f o r m a l
s c h o o l s , o f t e n b u i l t , s t a f f e d
a n d m a i n t a i n e d i n s m a l l c o m -
m u n i t i e s b y t h e p a r e n t s f o r
c h i l d r e n w h o a r e v e r y p o o r
a n d c a n n o t a f f o r d s t a n d a r d
s c h o o l f e e s , o r w h o c a n n o t
t r a v e l t h e f r e q u e n t l y l o n g
d i s t a n c e s t o g o t o f o r m a l
s c h o o l . M a n y o f t h e c h i l d r e n
a r e a l s o o r p h a n s , s o m e o f
w h o s e p a r e n t s d i e d o f A I D S .
Peter H. Gleick and Gary Wolff in
“The World’s Water.”
For instance, the Colorado River
has been diverted in more than 80
places and now rarely reaches the sea.
Consequently, many of the species that
live in the river’s delta face extinction.
But progress is being made as the
world begins to focus on the water
problem. Governments have pledged to
halve, between now and 2015, the
number of people who have no access
to safe drinking water and who do not
have adequate sanitation. The pledges
were made at the 2000 Millennium
Summit in New York City and the
2002 World Summit on Sustainable
Development in Johannesburg, South
Africa.
The UN hopes to keep the issue
spotlighted by making 2003 the
International Year of Freshwater.
P h o t o c o u r t e s y U N I C E F / H Q 9 6 - 1 1 6 6 / G I A C O M O P I R O Z Z I
WaterYear2003
M o r e t h a n 2 0
p e r c e n t o f a l l
f r e s h w a t e r f i s h
s p e c i e s a r e n o w
t h r e a t e n e d o r
e n d a n g e r e d
P h o t o c o u r t e s y o f N A S A
From “The World’s Water - 2002-2003”
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Celebrating clean water
The Stroud Center Education
Department celebrated the 30th anniversary
of the Clean Water Act last October by hold-
ing a monitoring day for 40 sixth and sev-
enth grade students from the Owen J.
Roberts Middle School in Pottstown,
Pennsylvania.
The students were members of Stream
Watch, a two-year watershed studies course
offered at their school. After a quick session
on the history of the Clean Water Act, the
students and teachers donned rubber boots
and waded into the White Clay Creek that
runs through the Stroud Center grounds. The
students did water quality tests, collected
aquatic insects and entered their information
in a national database.
Data collected by participating monitors
can be viewed at the Web site, www.yearof-
cleanwater.org. Detailed maps allow users to
pinpoint a monitored watershed and access
information for that area.
Education wins estuary award
The Partnership for the Delaware
Estuary last year awarded an Excellence in
the Estuary Award to the Stroud Center’s
Education Department for its “Water
Education” programs.
E D U C A T I O N – R E A C H I N G O U T
S t u d e n t s
i n v e s t i g a t e
t h e m y s t e r i e s
o f c l e a n w a t e r
P h o t o b y K a y D i x o n
P h o t o b y K a y D i x o n
P h o t o b y K a y D i x o n
P h o t o b y K a y D i x o n
C H E C K T H E W E B S I T E
www.stroudcenter.org for a full
listing of this year’s programs for
teacher professional development
and watershed advocates.
U P C O M I N G P R O G R A M S
Homeschoolers Stream School,
April 28, 9:30 am - 2 pm. You and
your children grades 4-6 will learn
about watersheds and will receive
curriculum resources
(limited to 20 adults).
Summer on the Brandywine
July 14-18, a free multidisciplinary
program for teachers of New
Castle County, Delaware. Includes
canoeing. (Made possible by a
grant from the Chichester duPont
Foundation.)
How are you honoring the International Year of Freshwater and the
30th anniversary of the Clean Water Act? Please let us know so we
can share your thoughts in the fall issue of UpStream.
CONTACT
7U P S T R E A M • S P R I N G 2 0 0 3
The Center’s
expanded Joan Stroud
Memorial Lecture din-
ner, “The Water’s
Edge,” will feature Jane
Goodall, one of the
most sought-after public
speakers in the world.
Best known for her
groundbreaking studies
of chimpanzees in their
wild ranges in Africa,
Goodall now spends
most of her time speak-
ing to audiences
around the world. Her
mission is to spread the word about the
threats, not only to chimpanzees, but to
all life, including that of humans.
According to an official biography
from the Jane Goodall Institute, she
“continually urges her audiences to
recognize their personal responsibility
and ability to effect change through
consumer action, lifestyle change and
activism.”
And since September 11, Goodall
has stressed the need for compassion
and tolerance.
In 1960 when Goodall began her
studies in the wild, she was so young
that British officials in Tanzania insist-
ed that her mother accompany her. Her
landmark observations in Gombe
included the discovery that chim-
panzees use tools, which to that point
had been thought a trait exclusive to
humans. Two years later she was
accepted as a Ph.D. candidate at
Cambridge University, even though she
did not have a college degree. In 1965
she earned her doctorate in ethology,
the study of animal behavior patterns.
Her books, such as “In the
Shadow of Man” and “Through a
Window,” brought the chimpanzees of
Gombe into the living rooms and
schools of the world. Gombe’s great
chimpanzee mother, Flo, and her fami-
ly became so well known that when
Flo died in 1972, the London Times
printed her obituary.
In 1964 Goodall established the
Gombe Stream Research Centre, which
trained many students in the study of
primates. She also broke the ground for
women, who now dominate primate
behavioral studies around the world.
The Jane Goodall Institute, which
she established in 1977, supports pro-
grams to protect chimpanzees and
other African animals. The institute
also runs “Roots & Shoots,” which
encourages and supports students from
preschool through university in proj-
ects that benefit people, animals and
the environment. There are now more
than 4,000 Roots & Shoots groups in
nearly 70 countries, according to the
institute. (See box below.)
Last year United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan made
Goodall a UN Messenger of Peace.
J a n e G o o d a l l t o s p e a k a t S t r o u d ’ s ‘ W a t e r ’ s E d g e ’P h o t o b y M i c h a e l N e u g e b a u e r
J a n e G o o d a l l a n d F i f i
THE WATER’S EDGE
– A CELEBRATION OF WATER.
■■ At Longwood Gardens
■■ Friday, October 3.
■■ Joan Stroud Memorial
Lecture by:
Jane Goodall.
■■ Invitations will be
mailed to the
“Friends of the Stroud
Center” in August.
C E L E B R A T I N G W A T E R
P h o t o b y D a v i d H o l l o w a y
J a n e G o o d a l l
P h o t o B y H u g o V a n L a w i c k
“ L i t t l e C h i m p ”CONTACT
if interested in joining a local
Roots & Shoots chapter.
8 U P S T R E A M • S P R I N G 2 0 0 3
For the Stroud Center’s scientists,
it’s not just the Mississippi’s size that
makes it different from other American
rivers they’ve studied. The Mississippi
is also fast-flowing, deep, wide, busy
and highly controlled by human engi-
neering. All these variables add up to a
compelling research problem involving
macroinvertebrates (aka insects, bugs,
worms, clams, crayfish) that the Stroud
Center has been working on at a site
south of St. Louis since 1999.
Almost as soon as Stroud ento-
mologists Bernard Sweeney and John
Jackson had placed the first bug col-
lecting devices in the river, they
learned that standard monitoring meth-
ods would not work in the Mississippi.
So they set to work designing new
ways of sampling for macroinverte-
brates, the aquatic insects that are so
critical to the health of water.
They quickly found that this
mightiest of waterways is no ordinary
river. None of the other big rivers the
Stroud Center has worked on – such as
the Susquehanna, Flint, Potomac and
White – “have presented the challenges
we get in the Mississippi,” said
Jackson.
Mark Twain’s legendary river
begins its 2,350-mile journey to the sea
at Lake Itasca in the Minnesota North
Woods. And, in the words of Oscar
Hammerstein’s famous song, “That Ol’
Man River, he keeps on rollin’ along”
down the middle of the continent
draining parts of two Canadian
provinces and 31 states before pouring
into the Gulf of Mexico at some
612,000 cubic feet per second.
Worldwide, America’s largest river
ranks third in length, second in water-
shed area and fifth in average dis-
charge, according to the United States
Geological Survey.
“The Mississippi River and its
OL’ MA N RI V E R
S t r o u d g r a p p l e s w i t h t h e M i g h t y M i s s i s s i p p i
’‘Yet human
act iv i t i e s have
great l y a l t e red
thi s r iver
eco sy s t em.
A s s e e n f r o m s p a c e , t h e M i s s i s s i p p i R i v e rB a s i n w h i c h d r a i n s m u c h o f t h e M i d w e s t e r nU n i t e d S t a t e s . C o u r t e s y N A S A ’ s “ V i s i b l e E a r t h ” i m a g e l i b r a r y
US Geological Survey
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adjacent forests and wetlands provide
important habitat for fish and wildlife
and include the largest continuous sys-
tem of wetlands in North America. The
river supports a diverse array of wet-
land, open-water, and floodplain habi-
tats, including extensive habitats on
national wildlife refuges,” says the
USGS.
“Yet human activities have greatly
altered this river ecosystem. Most of
the river and its floodplain (defined as
the adjacent, generally flat surface that
is periodically inundated by floodwa-
ters overflowing the river’s natural
banks) have been extensively modified
for commercial navigation and other
human developments. Much of the
watershed is intensively cultivated, and
many tributaries deliver substantial
amounts of sediment, nutrients, and
pesticides into the river. Pollutants also
enter the river from metropolitan and
industrial areas.”
The job
Stroud work on the Mississippi
began in 1999, when a blue-chip inter-
national manufacturing company came
to the Center with its problem. The job
was to design a monitoring program
that would enable the company to
evaluate whether or not its factory’s
effluent discharge into the Mississippi
was having an impact.
“Our job was trying to figure out
how to get a good picture of what’s
going in the Mississippi,” said
Jackson.
It’s a challenge that federal and
state environmental agencies have bat-
tled for years.
“There are no books, no
chapters, that tell you the
best way of sampling the
Mississippi,” said Jackson.
The main research prob-
lem is that the river’s bug
population is dominated by a
relatively few species of
macroinvertebrates, the tiny
water creatures that are critical to the
health of flowing water. Other species
are present, but in low numbers in the
fast-moving mainstream by occupying
eddies and quieter waters such as
behind the thousands of wing dams
that protrude from the banks to keep
the midstream flowing faster and deep-
er.
Since it’s essential for a reliable
monitoring program to sample a diver-
sity of the bugs, the researchers have
developed new sampler designs and
strategies for collecting a more diverse
array of macroinvertebrates.
One reason biomonitoring is such
a reliable tool in determining water
quality, said Jackson, “is that it looks
at dozens of species.”
And with insect diversity as a
focus, Stroud Center scientists have
made significant strides in developing
field and laboratory tools to monitor
the Mighty Mississippi.
Huge habitat
Aside from the elusive
bugs that the Stroud
Center’s sampling is seeking,
the Mississippi and its flood-
plain are home to more than
400 different species of
wildlife, including ancient lin-
eages of fish and some 40
percent of North America’s
migratory waterfowl.
L o w b u g d i v e r s i t y p r e s e n t s u n i q u e c h a l l e n g e
10 U P S T R E A M • S P R I N G 2 0 0 3
C O M M U N I T Y C O N N E C T I O N S
The Jenner’s
Pond project
shows how a col-
laboration of scien-
tists, environmentalists and community
residents and volunteers can benefit both
humans and nature.
It began as an idea. About three
years ago, Harry West, a retired DuPont
Co. chemical engineer who volunteers
part-time at the Stroud Center, wondered
aloud whether the Center might apply its
research knowledge to a problem at the
retirement community where he lives.
Director Bern Sweeney pricked up
his ears, and a new Stroud-led research-
and-outreach project was born.
Jenner’s Pond is built on 80 acres of
environmentally sensitive land whose
streams and wetlands form part of the
headwaters of Elk Creek. About 20 miles
due south of Jenner’s Pond, as the crow
flies, the Elk Creek spills into the ailing
Chesapeake Bay.
When he first visited the Jenner’s
Pond site, Sweeney found that invasive
plants had virtually taken over the creek
and wetlands. As Stroud research has
found, this impedes the stream’s ability
to function as a natural cleanup system.
For Jenner’s Pond residents, the riparian
area had the added detriment of being
unattractive and inaccessible to those
who like to walk and enjoy nature.
Such a stressed ecosystem seemed a
perfect candidate for a project to restore
streamside tree buffers, which has been
the focus of the Stroud Center for years.
Like almost all Stroud projects, this one
had both short- and long-term implica-
tions. For while the local human and
wildlife communities would be the
immediate beneficiaries of the tree plant-
ings, the restored stretch of stream would
play a role in the multi-state initiative to
clean up the Chesapeake Bay.
With the consent of the residents of
Jenner’s Pond, Sweeney implemented
the project, appointing himself chief vol-
unteer, designer and coordinator. Both
the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the
Chester County Conservation District
helped with the funding. Jenner’s Pond
residents, coordinated by Dorothy West,
provided much of the volunteer work on
the ground, with the assistance of
Salamon Romero and Javier Tinoco of
the Stroud Center’s maintenance staff.
Invasives such as multiflora rose
were cleared, and thousands of trees and
shrubs native to the region were planted.
Although work only began three
years ago, Jenner’s Pond residents are
already reaping its benefits. They can
now walk along the stream and enjoy the
birds and other wildlife. And the trees
are growing well despite an initial prob-
lem with deer, which was solved by
using tubular shelters.
“We’re very pleased with the
results,” said Mrs. West.
Added Sweeney, “It is a wonderful
example of how good science can pro-
vide solutions to environmental chal-
lenges when organizations collaborate
and local residents provide moral support
and labor.”
Ultimately, he predicted, it is the
cleanup of these small headwater streams
and their wetlands that will decide the
success or failure of the on-going effort
to save the Chesapeake Bay.
S u r r o u n d e d b y t h e r e c e n t l yr e s t o r e d w e t l a n d s a tJ e n n e r ’ s P o n d a r e B e r n a r dS w e e n e y , d i r e c t o r o f t h eS t r o u d C e n t e r , D o r o t h yW e s t a n d A l a n B a t e s o ft h e J e n n e r ’ s P o n dL a n d s c a p e C o m m i t t e e a n dR e u b e n K e n n e l o f t h eC h e s a p e a k e B a yF o u n d a t i o n .
R i p a r i a n p r o j e c t b e n e f i t s
c o m m u n i t y a n d C h e s a p e a k e
PROJECT
RIPARIAN RESTORATION
Site:Jenner’s Pond, a retirement community in south-ern Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Watershed:Headwaters of the Elk Creek.
Basin:Chesapeake Bay
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L A B & F I E L D C U R R E N T S
The Stroud Center officially estab-
lished a non-governmental organiza-
tion in Costa Rica on February 7. The
new NGO, called Asociacion Cento de
Investigacion (Stroud Research Center
Association), will serve as the umbrel-
la organization for all of the Center’s
research and education activities in
Central and South America. Since
1988 the Center has had an active
research program for tropical streams
and watersheds in the Guanacaste
Conservation Area in the northern part
of the country.
The Stroud
Center’s permanent
employees in Costa
Rica, Rafa Morales and Cristian
Collado, have been transferred to the
new organization along with all equip-
ment and instrumentation. The ACIS
now also has its own board. The
Stroud Center will be the main source
of funding for the new organization.
C o s t a R i c a l a b g e t s N G O s t a t u s
ACIS BOARD
President: Bernard Sweeney
Vice President: Mayra Bonilla
Secretary: Amelia Bonilla
Treasurer: Stephen Stroud
Fernando Esquivel (an owner of Rios Tropicales –
white water outfitters)
Rafael Gallo (an owner of Rios Tropicales)
Victor Gallo (Adventure sport specialist)
Taryn Lewis
Victor Vasquez
John Jackson
Non-voting
Fiscal adviser: Annie Bonilla
And dance for the sake of water
Celebrate the spring equinox and the International Year of
Freshwater at the the Stroud Water Research Center’s “Salsa For Water”
dance. Invitations will be mailed to all “Friends of the Stroud Center.”
Salsa (por agua)
Friday, March 21, 2003
7 p.m. to midnight
$40 per ticket: includes dinner, drinks and dance instruction.
At the Barn, Upland Country Day School.
S H A K E T H E S H I V E R S W I T H S I Z Z L I N G S A L S A
Salsa!
(por Aqua)
CONTACT
Kay Dixon at 610-268-2153 x247
12 U P S T R E A M • S P R I N G 2 0 0 3
Trip to the tropics
The Stroud Center wel-
comed over 70 guests of all
ages to its annual children’s
program in October to cele-
brate one of Earth’s most pre-
cious habitats, the tropical
rainforest. Presented by expert
naturalists, complete with live
animals, birds and reptiles, the
program brought the excite-
ment of a tropical visit, along
with information on the
Center’s work in Costa Rica.
L A B & F I E L D C U R R E N T S
Board Day
Members of the Stroud Center’s
Board of Directors attended a special
“Board Day” last September. They met
with the scientists and were given tours of
their labs and grounds. Some even got
their feet wet in the White Clay Creek
with John Jackson.
P h o t o b y K a y D i x o n
J o h n J a c k s o n s h o w s a b a g f u l l o f b u g s t o S t r o u db o a r d c o - c h a i r s R o d M o o r h e a d , l e f t , a n d J o h nF i s h e r .
B o a r d m e m b e r A m a n d a C a b o t g e t s a h a n d s - o n t o u ro f t h e l a b s .
P h o t o b y K a y D i x o n
New horizons
LARA MARTIN is now an associate scientist
with Toxicology/Regulatory Services, Inc. in
Charlottesville, Virginia. Among other things she
will help her new firm design and monitor ecotoxi-
cology studies. Martin had led a Stroud Center New
York project field research team for nearly three
years.
BILL CROUCH has a new job as an aquatic biol-
ogist for North Carolina’s Division of Water Quality.
He had worked in the Stroud Center’s Entomology
Department for seven years.
DAVE LIEB is at at the main campus of Penn
State, where he is studying for a Ph.D. in ecology.
He had worked in the Entomology Department at
the Stroud Center for five years.
Maathai in Kenya cabinet
Wangari Maathai, the
Kenyan environmental
activist who enthralled a
packed Stroud Center gather-
ing with her stories in 2001,
is now deputy minister of the
environment in the new gov-
ernment of President Mwai
Kibaki.
Her election to parlia-
ment in December and her
cabinet appointment on
January 3 caps Maathai’s
long struggle to bring
Kenya’s deteriorating environment
into the political spotlight. In a previ-
ous election she was beaten and left
for dead by thugs from President
Moi’s long-ruling party, which was
decisively defeated in the latest elec-
tion.
Her posting to the cabinet is also
a victory for women’s rights in
Kenya’s traditionally male-dominated
political structure. She was one of four
women named to Kibaki’s cabinet.
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Salmon need help
Bill Taylor, president of the Atlantic
Salmon Federation, spoke at last fall’s Joan
M. Stroud Memorial Lecture at the Center.
Taylor talked about the alarming
decline of wild Atlantic salmon due to
commercial fishing, dams, unwise land-
use, acid rain and fish
farming.
The Federation is an
international nonprofit
organization that pro-
motes the conservation
and wise management of
wild Atlantic salmon and
its environment.
B r i a n H u g h e s
c o l l e c t s a
s a m p l e f o r
o n e o f t h e
J a c k s o n R i v e r
c h a m b e r s f o r
i n o r g a n i c
a n a l y s i s .
L A B & F I E L D C U R R E N T S
Big win for
environment
and women’s
rights in
Kenya
W a n g a r i M a a t h a i
B i l l Ta y l o r
Intern wins photo contest
Stroud Center intern Brian Hughes, 18,
placed first in the Unionville Community
Fair photography contest for a self-portrait.
He has been an intern in Tom Bott’s micro-
biology section for three years.
Ring in Spring 2003 – Saturday, April 26
Join us for our 7th annual celebration of
the Earth, the natural world, the White Clay
Creek and its vibrant community. Activities
and programs for all ages including music
by “Two of a Kind” and the White Clay
Tributary. Some of our watershed animals,
reptiles, insects and birds will be on display,
and cockroach racing returns! Mark your
calendar for a fun educational family day.
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UPSTREAM FESTIVAL ANDWHITE CLAY 5KSATURDAY APRIL 2610 a.m. – 4 p.m. Rain or shine
THEME
White Clay! Celebrate the Extraordinary
Community of our Watershed.
PARKING
$5 per car
TRAIL CREEK WHITE CLAY
5K RUN/WALK
8 am - Race registration *
9 am - Start
10 am - Festival begins
Pre-registration: $12.00 until April 24th
Race day: $15
Information: 302-654-6400
Awards for:
Overall male & female winners -
Top three in age groups
Top three male & female walkers
T-shirts . . . Prizes . . . Refreshments . . .
Race organizer: Marathon Sports
Make checks payable to: Marathon Sports
Mail to: Trail Creek White Clay 5K Run/Walk
C/o Marathon Sports
PO Box 24, Montchanin DE 19710
* Registration for the race includes
free parking for the Festival.
U P S T R E A M F E S T I V A L
DEBUT FOR MYSTERY BUG
Don’t miss this first-time appearance
of this exotic creature from Texas.
White Clay! Celebrate our extraordinary watershed
Join the White Clay 5K Run/Walk
For the first time the Upstream Festival is hold-
ing a 5K race as part of the day’s festivities. The
race is sponsored by Trail Creek Outfitters and
organized by the professional race manager,
Marathon Sports.
The run starts at 9 a.m. at the Stroud Center and
winds through the countryside which will by then be
breaking into bloom.
The top three in each of the age and gender cat-
egories will win prizes. T shirts to all participants.
A l l a g e s e n j o y t h e s t r e a m w a l k s c o n d u c t e d b yS t r o u d s e n i o r s c i e n t i s t s
C o o k i n g u p a b r e w o f b u g s .
L e a r n i n g t h e g e n t l e a r t o f f l y t y i n g .
Te n t a t i v e !
Volunteers needed and always very welcom.
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The Stroud Water Research Center gratefully
acknowledges all the individuals who contributed to
our Annual Fund in 2002.
The “Friends” raised $227,564, with a 30 percent
increase in the amount of contributions, and an
increase in new Friends by 7 percent.
We would like to especially thank the many
“Friends” who were unable to contribute in 2001 due
to the uncertainty after September 11th, who then
rejoined us and “renewed” their commitment to the
future of fresh water.
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Stroud and Dr. Ruth Patrick foresaw
the importance of research on our
freshwater ecosystems. Thus, the
Stroud Water Research Center began.
Please reflect on the importance of
fresh water during the next 35 years
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Center as a beneficiary of your gift
planning.
By naming the Stroud Center in your
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enable Stroud Center scientists to
meet the challenges of understand-
ing and preserving fresh water for
future generations.
And your gift may fit with your own
long-term needs as well . . . for a
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gained from its research to promote
environmental stewardship and
resolve freshwater challenges
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L i k e t r o u t a n g l e r s
t y i n g a f l y , s p i -
d e r s s p i n t h e i r
i n t r i c a t e d e s i g n s
t o h o o k a p a s s i n g
m a y f l y r i s i n g
f r o m t h e W h i t e
C l a y C r e e k .
P h o t o B y D a v i d F u n k
Salsa Dance.
White Clay Run/Walk &
UpStream Festival.
Joan Stroud Memorial
Lecture: Sandra Postel,
a leading authority on
freshwater issues,
director of the Global
Water Policy Project and
a senior fellow at the
Worldwatch Institute.
The Water’s Edge,
featuring Jane Goodall.
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