St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
The St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL), located on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is NCED's major experimental research facility. The laboratory houses faculty, graduate students, and staff from the University of Minnesota's departments of Civil Engineering and Geology and Geophysics. Its island location provides an ideal site for a variety of experimental flumes and channels, as river water can be routed directly through the building. Experimental facilities include:
- a large wind tunnel,
- two basins devoted to experimental stratigraphy (one with a subsiding floor),
- the 275 foot long Main Channel, and
- weighing and volumetric tanks for large scale flow rate calibration.
The SAFL Shop provides technical support for experiments run in existing facilities and design/build support for new models. See SAFL's website for a full description of these experimental facilities. SAFL is also home to the SAFL StreamLabs: A suite of research venues/laboratories designed to help researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines better understand stream processes. NCED welcomes visitor research at SAFL and other NCED facilities. Please contact Jeff Marr for details (marrx003@umn.edu).
