Water data management software company Aquatic Informatics announced that it has awarded the Ripple Effect grant to the Stroud Water Research Center based in Chester County, Pa.
Ripple Effect is a donation program that provides recipients with complimentary access to the company’s software and professional services. The donated software will help the Stroud Center acquire, process, and model data to advance the knowledge and stewardship of freshwater systems.
The Stroud Center has been leading the effort to produce innovative solutions for preserving and restoring fresh water through global research, education, and science-driven watershed restoration. The Stroud Center has conducted landmark studies on freshwater that have produced foundational concepts such as the Thermal Equilibrium Concept and the River Continuum Concept.
“Stroud Water Research Center is excited to apply the newest features of the Aquarius platform to our data management and analysis,” says Scott Ensign, vice president of the Stroud Center. “As a recipient of the Ripple Effect grant, we are grateful for the assistance Aquatic Informatics is providing to help us develop more efficient data quality control and curation processes. This added efficiency accelerates our translation of data into discoveries that advance the science of fresh water.”
The Stroud Center collects a myriad of data for multiple projects with multiple partners at any point in time. The non-profit sought out Aquarius as a data management solution nearly 10 years ago, but the volume of data began expanding rapidly with the advent of a sensor-based citizen science program in 2017.
Each of the donation program’s grant calls has a theme so that a variety of organizations and communities can benefit from different solutions by the company. This year, the committee selected an Aquarius customer who would have had to discontinue leveraging Aquarius for their meaningful work if they hadn’t received the Ripple Effect grant.
