Visiting researchers investigate an experimental delta at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory

NCED participating institutions offer unique field and laboratory locations for research by members of the NCED research community and visitors. Please use the links below to learn more about these facilities. For information about conducting research at any of our facilities, contact Jeff Marr, NCED Engineer.

The St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL), NCED's headquarters, houses many of NCED's flumes, basins, and other experimental facilities.

The Indoor StreamLab is an ongoing research project that is being conducted in the Main Channel at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory.

Developed by SAFL and NCED at SAFL, the Outdoor StreamLab is an experimental field-scale stream and floodplain system.

The Virtual StreamLab simulates turbulence, sediment transport processes, and flow/biota interactions in real-life streams using advanced computational fluid dynamics software.

The Angelo Coast Range Reserve (ACRR) in northern California, is the principle site for NCED's integrated field studies.

Near Morgan City, Louisiana, NCED has a delta field site: the Wax Lake Delta. This Delta represents an ideal field setting for NCED researchers because it will allow them to develop a more detailed, predictive understanding of depositional processes.

The Minnesota Le Sueur River, in the Le Sueur River basin of southern Minnesota, is the site of a cooperative research endeavour between NCED, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the St. Croix Watershed Research Station, and the University of Minnesota (Department of Soil, Water, and Climate—St. Paul).

The Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory (Illinois) includes several flumes, a rainfall generator, a stratified flow tank, and a water tunnel. Additional facilities are described in detail on the website.

Johns Hopkins University has an Erosion and Sedimentation Laboratory with a small and a large tilting flume.

The Richmond Field Station (University of California, Berkeley) is an academic teaching and research off-site facility used primarily for large-scale engineering research.