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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)

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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.)
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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