SAFL Prospective Students

Graduate Research Opportunities at SAFL in
Engineering, Environmental and Geophysical Fluid Mechanics

The St. Anthony Falls Laboratory is one of the world’s foremost institutions for environmental and geophysical fluid mechanics research. Our unique facilities house laboratories dedicated to basic and applied research for water and the environment. SAFL is proud to provide an interdisciplinary environment for its faculty and students from the U.S. and abroad. SAFL is also headquarters to the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED), an NSF-funded Science & Technology Center with researchers and facilities around the country.

Apply now for admission and funding for Fall 2010.

Seeking students with backgrounds in:
•Civil & Environmental Engineering
•Geology & Geophysics
•Engineering Mechanics & Applied Mathematics
•Ecology
•Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
•Water Resources
•Physics

Research areas include:
•Fluvial & Oceanic Channel Dynamics
•Granular Flows & Sediment Transport
•Hydrologic Processes & Multiscale Dynamics
•Cavitation & Bubbly Flows
•Land-Atmosphere Interactions
•Chemical Fate & Transports in the Environment
•Environmental & Biochemical Systems
•Lake & River Water Quality Dynamics
•Computational Modeling of Transport Processes
•Coupling of Ecosystems & Landscapes
•Computational Hydrodynamics and Biofluids

For general questions contact:
Bonnie Jean MacKay
St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55414
(612) 624-4363
walke020@umn.edu

Application materials & details on requirements
are at these websites:
To apply through Civil Engineering click here.
To apply through Geology & Geophysics click here.

Fellowships and other assistantships are available for qualified applicants. For information on additional fellowships available for current graduate students at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, click here.