SAFL Featured Stories
SAFL's Diana Dalbotten in Alliance to Increase Native American Participation in STEM Careers
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Diana Dalbotten, SAFL's Associate Director of Diversity and Broader Impacts, has joined the Native FEWS Alliance with the shared vision to build a highly skilled Native American STEM workforce in the areas of Food, Energy, and Water and to address the insufficient access to food, energy, and water (FEW) in Indigenous communities. The Native FEWS Alliance strives to become a transformative force in education, bringing into being innovative pathways to STEM careers that engage local communities and are based on Indigenous ways of living and learning.
SAFL’s Jabari Jones on Racism, Environmental Justice and the Way Forward
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In an editorial for AGU Advances titled "We Need Accomplices, Not Allies in the Fight for an Equitable Geoscience," PhD student Jabari Jones offers his personal reflections as a Black geoscientist while presenting his colleagues with actionable suggestions for change.
Announcing the Charles C.S. Song Fellowship
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One year ago, our SAFL community lost an esteemed colleague, dedicated teacher and scholar, and internationally renowned researcher when Dr. Charles C.S. Song passed away. Today, we would like to announce the Charles C.S. Song Fellowship, a new graduate fellowship started in Dr. Song’s honor by a generous group of his former graduate students. The inaugural Charles C.S. Song Fellowship award will be made in spring 2022.
Announcing the Roger E.A. Arndt Fellowship
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The St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL) is very excited to announce the creation of a new graduate student fellowship – the Roger E.A. Arndt Fellowship. The fellowship is designed to award outstanding students who perform fluid mechanics research at SAFL while honoring the many contributions that Professor Roger E.A. Arndt has made to the laboratory and the field of fluid mechanics.
SAFL leads crowdfunding campaign to study boat wakes in Minnesota Lakes
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Recreational boating is a beloved summer activity in Minnesota; however, the increased number of large boats on Minnesota lakes and rivers could negatively impact shorelines, lake bottoms, and other recreational activities. This late summer and fall, the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL) is proposing to research the impacts of boat wakes and propeller wash on lake bottoms and shorelines.
Open-access publication addresses need for environmental justice and equity in stormwater engineering
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How do you bridge the gap between engineering effective projects while minimizing impacts on marginalized communities?
New award supports upgrade for unique SAFL experimental facility
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One of SAFL's most unique experimental facilities, the Outdoor StreamLab (OSL), is going to have a significant facelift thanks to the OVPR 2020 Research Infrastructure Investment Program.
Evaporative residues from aerosol droplets key to understanding COVID-19 survivability on different surfaces
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A recently submitted study by researchers under the direction of Jiarong Hong, faculty at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL) and associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, devised a series of experiments looking at what happens after aerosol droplets fall on five different surface types and evaporate under different temperature and humidity scenarios.
SAFL Director Lian Shen selected as co-chair for offshore wind research advisory group
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Lian Shen, director of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL) and professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, was recently selected as a co-chair of the research and development (R&D) advisory group for the National Offshore Wind Research & Development Consortium.
SAFL awarded funding to design more environmentally-friendly hydropower technologies
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The St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota was recently selected for funding by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to design and develop a modular dam technology that could help lift barriers to development of new hydropower projects across the nation.