SAFL In the News
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 Innovative Eagle Project Highlighted in Star Tribune
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SAFL Engineers are working with a team of specialists and the Gabbert Raptor Center to determine what sounds will best deter eagles from flying into hazardous air spaces around wind turbines.
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.
SAFL Director involved in new $7.5M DoD MURI project
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Lian Shen, SAFL Director and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, is part of a PI group recently selected for a $7.5 million U.S. Department of Defense MURI award.
The river runs through it - Learning more about the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
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What is SAFL? Who works here? What do they do? Great questions, and a new article published by our friends at U Relations does a great job answering them.
SAFL-affiliated faculty featured in Healthline magazine re: COVID transmission indoors
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Mechanical Engineering faculty and SAFL-affiliated faculty Jiarong Hong is a PI in a study that looks to identify hotspots of virus particles in different types of indoor spaces.
Media stories highlighting SAFL boat wake research crowdfunding effort
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SAFL is proposing to conduct crowd-funded research looking at the impacts of boat wakes and propellor wash on MN lakes. See the media generated by this story.
SAFL faculty featured in various media for COVID-related research
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SAFL faculty Jiarong Hong was recently featured in the Star Tribune and on Good Morning America regarding his contribution to a project that builds simulations of COVID transmission hotspots in different indoor spaces
Tracking the fate of road salt in watersheds
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A common Minnesota winter scene involves seeing a truck distribute road salt on icy roadways. But what happens to the chloride from the salt after the ice melts?
SAFL visualization illustrates how levees can impact flooding
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Staff from ProPublica and Vox visited the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory to build a conceptual demonstration model of how levees influence flooding patterns.