SAFL Seminar Series

SAFL Seminars are held in the St. Anthony Falls Auditorium, every Wednesday at 3:30pm. The Fall 2007 seminars have been arranged by graduate students Paola Passalacqua and David Saddoris. Please contact safl@umn.edu for questions or suggestions.

St. Anthony Falls Seminar Series
Spring Semester 2008
(schedule subject to change)

January	2	9	16	23	30
February	6	13	20	27
March	5	12	19	26
April	2	9	16	23	30

The entire spring semester schedule is listed below. To view abstracts, please click on the calendar date, or the title of the seminar in the schedule below.

Please click here for a printable schedule.

(To view last semester's schedule, please click here.)

Other seminar series: Department of Civil Engineering Department of Geology and Geophysics Water Resources Science Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Mechanical Engineering IGERT group seminars
Jan. 23	Chris Ellis, Sr. Research Associate and Jim Mullin, Sr. Engineer St. Anthony Falls Laboratory The ‘Magic Cart’ and other new measurement gadgets at SAFL
Jan. 30	Kyle Straub, Post-doctoral Associate St. Anthony Falls Laboratory How fast and how thick: Constraining turbidity current flow properties from submarine channel morphology
Feb. 6	Dr. Gil Bohrer, John & Elaine French Fellow Harvard University Center for the Environment Cambridge, MA Large-eddy simulations of forest-canopy micro-scale structural heterogeneity and its effects on the atmospheric boundary layer
Feb. 13	Dr. Nikolas Geroliminis, Assistant Professor Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota Increasing the accessibility delivered by urban traffic with perimeter control: Theory and applications
Feb. 20	Silberman Award Dr. Jim Best, Threet Professor of Geology Departments of Geology and Geography and Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Lab University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bedforms in watery environments: Time for a dirty story?
Feb. 27	SAFL Distinguished Seminar Dr. Alexander Smits Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Princeton University, Princeton, NJ The hydrodynamics of swimming
March 5	Dr. Peter Troch, Professor Hydrology and Water Resources University of Arizona, Tucson Landscape controls on catchment-water residence time
March 12	Dr. Stefano Lanzoni, Professor Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Padua, Italy Long term behaviour of meandering channels
March 19	Spring Break - No seminar
March 26	Dr. John Anfinson National Park Service Historian ASCE The colors of a river: Pollution and the Upper Mississippi River
April 2	Benoit Spinewine, PhD Postdoctoral researcher Dept. of Civil & Env. Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Water and sediments: Which one is moving the other? A study on submarine channels and bedforms created by turbidity currents transporting a combination of suspended load and bed load
April 9	Dr. Erin Kraal, Research Scientist Geosciences Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Martian stepped deltas record a rapid release of water
April 16	Dr. Peter Snyder, Assistant Professor Dept. of Soil, Water and Climate Dept. of Forest Resources University of Minnesota The atmospheric response to climate-driven Arctic terrestrial ecosystem changes
April 23	Anderson Award Dr. Julian Marshall Dept. of Civil Engineering University of Minnesota Urban Sprawl: Observations on urban form, environment, and health
April 30	Iman Borazjani, Graduate Student SAFL Numerical studies in aquatic locomotion

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