Carbon-based Energy
Carbon-based energy refers to energy generated by carbon-based sources, including hydrocarbons such as oil and gas and biofuels like algae. SAFL's expertise in being able to build experimental deltas and build experiments looking at turbidity currents enables those in the oil and gas fields to better understand and predict where hydrocarbon deposits could potentially build or migrate. In the last decade, SAFL has held between 15-20 oil consortium workshops that consist of experiments and lectures that bring together what the stratigrapher sees in the rock column to the processes that create the deposits/stratigraphic features.
Over the past decade SAFL researchers have also conducted several experiments looking at biofuels and better understanding what makes a more productive biofuel.
Affiliated Faculty
Chris Paola
SAFL Researchers
Jeffrey Marr
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MINUHET software tool available for practitioners to better assess temperature impacts of stormwater runoff in trout streams
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MINUHET is a stand-alone software tool use to simulate the flow of stormwater surface runoff and its associated heat content through a small watershed. Interested practitioners can download the software on this page.
SAFL team designs flume to support juvenile fish studies
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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) tasked SAFL researchers with the design of a race-track style flume, with the geometry and hydraulic conditions for early life stages of pallid sturgeon, an ancient but endangered fish species which historically inhabited the Missouri and lower Mississippi rivers