EFM in the wild

Congratulations to Emma Nuss for successfully defending her PhD in November! She did a fantastic job teaching the community about her work on surf-zone vorticity, while making it fun with analogies to cakes and cookies.

The Environmental Fluid Mechanics Group participated in the UW Engineering Discovery Days which has resumed for the first time since it was last held in 2019. During two days in Spring 2024, our group taught hundreds of 4th through 8th grade students how two bodies of water with different densities (fresh water and salt water) interact through a “lock exchange” experiment.

Many of the EFM members focus on fluid mechanics in the ocean and will be heading off (virtually) to the Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) 2022! We hope to see others there and if you have any questions about our work or who is going to the meeting, feel free to email EJ Rainville at erainvil@uw.edu.

The Environmental Fluid Mechanics Group holds an annual educational exhibit at the UW Engineering Discovery Days. In Spring 2019, our group taught hundreds of K-12 students about how water density impacts fluid motion in estuaries with the lock exchange experiment. Here is a link to our exhibit ‘how to’ guide and demo worksheet for those interested this outreach activity.

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The UW EFM group will be well represented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting, February 11-16 2018, in Portland, OR. Visit the link below for a full list of EFM presentations during the meeting:

EFM presentations at the Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2018