Glenn Richard Flierl (born 1948) is Professor of Oceanography at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
[3] He is known for fundamental insights into the dynamics of vortices and geostrophic turbulence and their impact on marine ecosystems.
For example, he explains unusual ocean features, like paired eddies, in the Newsweek article "Double Whirlpools Found Spinning Across Hundreds of Miles in the Ocean Seen for the First Time".
[5] In 2014, Glenn R. Flierl was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
[6] He received the Henry Stommel Research Award of the American Meteorological Society in 2015.