Dr. Casey Bradshaw-Wilson (Co-Director)
Dr. Casey Bradshaw-Wilson (Co-Director)
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The Watershed Conservation Research Center (WCRC) at Allegheny is a collaborative interdisciplinary effort among faculty, students and community partners to engage in conservation-based research and educational outreach in the upper Allegheny River basin, focusing on the French Creek Watershed. Through faculty-student research, community partnerships and educational outreach, we engage in strategic conservation activities and train future watershed stewards to protect, restore and enhance our land and water resources for future generations.
We support student-faculty projects and initiatives that
Advance knowledge to aid in the protection of aquatic and terrestrial wildlife species and/or habitats with the French Creek Watershed
Educate or create awareness of the ecological, economic, or intrinsic importance of the French Creek Watershed
Aim to better understand the cultural, political, economic and/or ecological value of the French Creek Watershed for regional communities/economies
Email Casey Bradshaw-Wilson (cbradshawwilson@allegheny.edu) or Kelly Pearce (kpearce@allegheny.edu) about opportunities to get involved with the WCRC!
The WCRC works with Allegheny College students during the academic year and over the summer on projects throughout the French Creek Watershed. We also have 11 community partners that we work with on almost all of our projects, giving students the opportunity to meet local conservation organizations and work alongside them.
While my focus is freshwater ecology, the WCRC is involved with a variety of projects that think about the watershed as a whole (terrestrial, aquatic, those living and working in the watershed). A few example projects are instream habitat restoration projects and biological surveys, salamander surveys, bird banding, GIS projects and use of our drone, impacts of invasives on native species, mammal diversity research, we participate in the Unassessed Waters program (for native brook trout), economic development initiatives for towns along French Creek, outreach programs and more!
Mark Kirk (WCRC Research Scientist); Meredith Barney (2024 Assistant Research Scientist); Casey Bradshaw-Wilson (Co-Director); Kelly Pearce (Co-Director) posing while working at a stream restoration site
Casey joining PA Fish and Boat Commission on darter surveys using benthic trawls
Casey teaching Penn State University and WCRC (Allegheny) students how to identify fishes collected at one of our instream habitat restoration sites
WCRC staff and students working on Unassessed Waters (in search of brook trout)
Processing fish (in this case a Round Goby)
Allegheny students (WCRC) working on a Round Goby project with Casey and a graduate student from IUP
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