Glenn R. Flierl

Glenn Richard Flierl (born 1948) is Professor of Oceanography at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1970, he received his B.A. in Physics from Oberlin College and in 1975 his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University. Advised by Allan Richard Robinson, he graduated with the dissertation "Gulf Stream Meandering, Ring Formation and Ring Propagation". He joined the faculty at MIT in 1976. Provided by Wikipedia