The Saint Anthony Falls Lab (SAFL), University of Minnesota is a world-renowned center for research in fluid mechanics and earth-surface dynamics. We address earth, environmental, and energy challenges through the multidisciplinary and collaborative study of fluid and flow. We provide education and hands-on mentorship to students at all levels, and we communicate the knowledge and solutions produced at SAFL to stakeholders locally and globally. SAFL’s unique lab spaces and structural capacities provide support for work at the intersection of engineering and research. Using physical experiments, field work, computational modeling, and artificial intelligence, experts from diverse fields converge to solve complex environmental and societal problems.
Our location on the banks of the Mississippi River and below Saint Anthony Falls is foundational to who we are: the river shapes our work and powers it.
