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Title: |
Director,
Center
for Watershed Stewardship Instructor in Watershed Stewardship
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| Phone: |
814-865-5736 |
| Email: |
lss9@psu.edu |
| Address: |
The
Pennsylvania State University
Center for Watershed Stewardship
227 East Calder Way
University Park, PA 16801 |
- Education:
- B.A., University
of Pittsburgh (1966)
M.S., West Virginia University (1976)
- Academic
Interests:
- Community-based
watershed stewardship, social ecology, pedagogy of experiential
group learning
- Courses
Taught:
- Watershed
Issues Seminar, Watershed Stewardship Planning Seminar, Watershed
Stewardship Practicum I & II, Keystone Project
- Professional
Affiliation:
- Member,
The Wildlife Society; Certified Wildlife Biologist; Registered
Biologist, State of Florida
- Recent
Research/Educational Projects:
- Maiden
Creek "Keystone Project" in Berks and Lehigh County,
Pennsylvania.
The
first watershed stewardship plan undertaken by the Penn
State Center for Watershed Stewardship was located in
southeastern Pennsylvania near Reading in cooperation
with the Berks County Conservancy and a steering committee
of more than 25 municipal, county, state and federal
agencies and other stakeholders. An interdisciplinary
team of 5 students engaged in a two-semester process
to assess environmental conditions and non-point source
water pollution causing an "impaired waters"
designation of Lake Ontelaunee, the source water supply
for 125,000 residents of Reading. Management alternatives
and implementation strategies developed in the planning
process addressed seven primary issues ranging from
surface water impairment, impacts of land use changes
on rural character and environmentally sensitive areas,
and the need for a broad-based, proactive watershed
organization to promote and coordinate watershed stewardship
efforts. These proposed steps were presented orally
by students and in a Maiden Creek Watershed Stewardship
report to be integrated by Berks County Conservancy
in a comprehensive River Conservation Plan. (The student-produced
Maiden Creek report is available as a PDF file; go to
"Maiden Creek Keystone Project" at the Center
for Watershed Stewardship.
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- Selected
Publications:
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Sherwin, L.S. and K. Tamminga. Keystone Projects: Service
Learning Practica in Watershed Stewardship. Water Resources
Update, The Universities Council on Water Resources
(In Press)
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- Sherwin,
L.S. 1999. Student Watershed Planning Teams: Incorporating
Science into Local Watershed Stewardship Strategies.
Pages 221-226 in Eloise Kendy, editor. Proceedings,
American Water Resources Association Specialty Conference,
Science into Policy: Water in the Public Realm. Bozeman,
Montana.
Sharpe,
W.E. and L.S. Sherwin. 1994. Environmental Restoration
Education: The Linn Run Acid Runoff Mitigation Project.
Proceedings, Environmental Restoration Conference, The
Universities Council on Water Resources. Big Sky, Montana.
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Lysle
S. Sherwin