SAFL In the News
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.
SAFL’s Judy Yang and Miki Hondzo Awarded LCCMR Grant to Tackle Harmful Algal Blooms in Minnesota
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Judy Yang, SAFL Faculty and Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, has recently been awarded a 326K grant from the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) for a project titled “Mitigating Cyanobacterial Blooms and Toxins Using Clay-Algae Flocculation.” Alongside Miki Hondzo, SAFL Faculty, Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering and co-PI on the project, and other partners, Professor Yang will investigate solutions to excessive algae growth in Minnesota’s lakes and rivers.
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.
Coming Full Circle - Harnessing the power of weathering to remove excess CO2 from the atmosphere
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A group of researchers led by Sara Polanco, a University of Minnesota alumna, are conducting a series of flume tank experiments at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory to understand how olivine-supplemented sediments will respond to wave action when deployed into coastal settings.
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.
SAFL's Ardeshir Ebtehaj Joins NASA Science Team
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Ardeshir Ebtehaj, SAFL Faculty and Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, has recently joined NASA’s Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) Science Team, an elite group of researchers using satellites to study rain and snowfall around the globe