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Glenn Flierl joined the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) faculty in 1976. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Oberlin College in 1970 and completed his PhD in physics at Harvard University in 1975. Flierl is known for advancing the understanding of the physics of turbulent processes in oceans and the atmosphere, including how properties like eddies, jets, and nonlinear flows form. He is a leader in the iGlobe/MIT Project, funded by the National Science Foundation, which developed tools for education and public outreach by projecting movies using near real-time data on a spherical display, depicting Earth, oceanic, and atmospheric processes over time. A recognized leader in his field, Flierl has been elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and has served as a principal lecturer at the prestigious Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Summer School at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In 2015, he was awarded the Henry Stommel Research Medal by the American Meteorological Society.