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Graduate Student Selina Bolella Receives a NDSEG Graduate Fellowship Selina Bolella of the EFD Group is an awardee of the 2025 DoD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Program. https://ndseg.sysplus.com/…

News update in CBC Nova Scotia on the Fatima Experiment running on Sable Island during July 2022. Link to Story with Video…

Vaisala is a a global leader in weather, environmental, and industrial measurements and technology. The Notre Dame Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory was recently recognized by Vaisala for their work elucidating marine fog formation using their technology.  Read their case study here.…

EFM Lab alumni, Thomas Sherman and Daniel Vassallo, founded CRCL solutions to provide wind and solar power forecasts to a wide range of end users. CRCL was recently acquired by Enverus to add CRCL's cloud-based algorithms and modeling for wind and solar generation forecasts to their portfolio.…

Notre Dame researchers are exploring the mysteries of Arctic ice fog during the polar night. Using automated weather balloons and advanced instruments, the team aims to uncover how this unusual fog forms and behaves in extreme cold. Their findings could lead to better weather forecasts and a deeper…

Scientists conducted the FATIMA–Ice Fog campaign at the DOE’s North Slope of Alaska site in late 2025 to study how turbulence and microphysical processes influence ice fog. Advanced ground-based instruments were used to collect detailed data on ice crystals, aerosols, and atmospheric conditions with…

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released the first in a series of biennial reports reviewing the scientific foundations of key management actions within California’s major water delivery systems—the federal Central Valley Project (CVP) and the State Water Project…

Former EFM Lab PhD student, Ann Dallman, was honored with the Society of Women Engineers award for Distinguished New Engineer 2021. Dr. Dallman was recognized for her "significant technical contributions to several fields; for leadership and advocacy in the community and in SWE; and for the critical…

In September, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory announced it would lead a multi-institutional team to advance urban climate science with the establishment of an Urban Integrated Field Laboratory in Chicago. The DOE will fund the project with $25 million over five years.....…

Argonne National Laboratory leads the Urban Integrated Field Laboratory team to study the impact of extreme weather events on the people and infrastructure in the Chicago area. The IFL is one of three in the Nation created by a $66 million award from the Department of Energy to better understand climate…

2023 came to a close with the passing of one of our own. Iossif Lozovatsky was a valuable member of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics laboratory group for 3 decades and his loss is felt deeply by all who knew him.  Read his In Memoriam here…

See the full announcement here. Read more about the ASTRaL program at Notre Dame here.…

Read Karla Cruise's article about the ASTral team's research toward understanding the formation of the Indian summer monsoon: Monsoon mechanics: civil engineers look for answers…

The Department of Defense, under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), recently announced the award of $43 million across 64 universities to purchase equipment for defense-related research. The University of Notre Dame Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory is one of those…

The Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame conducts research to better predict and control flows in the environment. This short video provides an overview of the research conducted by the Laboratory. Courtesy: American Geophysical Union.   …

The University of Notre Dame and the Ocean University of Sri Lanka have entered into a 5-year Memorandum of Understanding to conduct Oceanographic Research in the Bay of Bengal. The MoU was approved by the Sri Lankan Cabinet Ministers in early April and the project will run from 2024 through 2028…

Dr. Fernando was interviewed for an article on fog published in the New York Times on 29 October 2023. Journey Through the Fog, by Emily Reily.

Dr. Emily Shroyer of the US Naval Research, along with Dr. Hemantha Wijesekera, Physical Oceanographer, US Naval Research Laboratory, and Professor Harindra Fernando, University of Notre Dame, called on Ambassador Mahinda Samarasinghe on 26 July 2024 at the Sri Lankan Embassy in Washington DC, and…

The second phase of WFIP3 extends the land-based data collection systems to the offshore realm using an instrumented barge off the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Instrumentation from the University of Notre Dame includes a long-range Doppler wind lidar, W-band radar, microwave radiometer, and…

(translated from Korean by Neural Machine Translation; original article at https://trans.etnews.com/etgiweb/httpsURLwww.etnews.com/20230612000100) Korea-US joint exploration of the Yellow Sea…