SAFL Featured Stories
A Study of Climate-Impacted Lakes and their Impact on Climate
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September 18th, 2024
Dr. Ardeshir Ebtehaj received a grant from NASA to study Arctic Lake-ice Phenology and Methane Emissions. The newest member of NASA's Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) Satellite mission, Dr. Ebtehaj along with his students and collaborators at the University of Alaska Fairbanks will be utilizing SMAP data to decrease uncertainty around methane emissions estimates from arctic lakes.
Who is Science For?
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August 8th, 2024
Summary: The Sustainable Land and Water Resources Research Experience for Undergraduates is a 10-week summer program that explores the complexities of doing tribally-focused science in, with, and for communities. The majority of the 2024 cohort, which recently concluded activities with a research symposium, belonged to groups underrepresented in science and more than half were Indigenous.
Amy Tinklenberg Receives the 2023 Roger E.A. Arndt Fellowship
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This year, SAFL graduate student Amy Tinklenberg received the Roger E.A. Arndt Fellowship Award for her work in fluid dynamics.
Judy Yang Receives NSF CAREER Award
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Judy Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering and St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota. Her research in water resources focuses on transport of fluids, particles, bacteria, and chemicals in the environment. She received a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), an award given to outstanding junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar, excelling at and integrating both research and education.
The Minnesota Stormwater Seminar Series is back in-person!
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After 2.5 years, the University of Minnesota’s Stormwater Seminar Series is back in-person at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory! Known for bringing the latest stormwater research to practitioners through bi-monthly talks by experts and interdisciplinary panel discussions, the Minnesota Stormwater Series has been operating virtually since March 2020.
Far-reaching Lake Superior Basin project receives NSF grant
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An interdisciplinary group of experts recently received a 2.8 million dollar National Science Foundation Frontier Research in Earth Sciences grant to delve into the formation and evolution of the Lake Superior basin. The unique glacial and geological history of the Lake Superior region offers the team of nine lead scientists, spread across five universities, a "natural experiment" to study the structure of Earth's crust and mantle, the behavior of outlet glaciers from ice sheets, river erosion, and lake- and sea-level change.
SAFL partners with WEST & TNO on system to detect bird and bat collisions at wind turbines
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In early July, representatives from St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL), Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (WEST) and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) were busy installing vibration sensors and cameras on the wind turbine at the Eolos Wind Energy Research Station at UMore Park. “We’re evaluating and refining a multi-sensor system developed by TNO to detect bat and bird collisions with wind turbine blades,” explains Dr. Jennifer Stucker, senior research biologist for WEST who manages the project, titled A Multi-Sensor Approach for Measuring Bird and Bat Collisions with Offshore Wind Turbines.
SAFL Faculty and Researchers Develop Tool to Measure Particle Transport of Wildfire Soot
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“Gaining a better understanding of how aerosol particles are dispersed downwind from wildfire smoke has potentially big implications for public health,” explains SAFL postdoctoral researcher Nate Bristow. “Aerosols from wildfires also influence radiative forcing, which impacts how the atmosphere is trapping heat. As we are better able to measure and characterize the morphology of these aerosols during transport, including how they may aggregate together and change in size, we can work towards developing predictive models that more accurately incorporate the feedbacks of these particles on the climate.”
Jabari Jones Awarded the 2022 Outstanding Community Service Award
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Jabari Jones, SAFL PhD candidate in Earth & Environmental Sciences (ESCI), was recently awarded the 2022 Outstanding Community Service Award! As a community organizer, educator and volunteer, Jabari is working to redefine what it means to be a graduate student at the University of Minnesota.
How one SAFL faculty member is using snowflakes to improve wind turbine efficiency
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Dr. Jiarong Hong, Associate Director of the Eolos Wind Energy Research Consortium at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, discusses his novel approach to understanding the wake flows produced by wind turbines.