Welcome to the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute

The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute is an internationally recognized research program with collaborations across multiple diverse areas of expertise addressing issues in environmental and climate science. As part of FSU's College of Arts and Sciences, faculty associates within the Institute come from highly-ranked programs in the geosciences, mathematics, statistics, scientific computing, and engineering. Our research covers such diverse topics as turbulence, climate and paleoclimate, biogeochemical processes, hydrology and Karst dynamics, air-sea interaction, wild-fire dynamics, double diffusive processes, and hurricane dynamics.

The Institute also oversees the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Ph.D. program, a unique interdisciplinary program whose curriculum is tailored to the graduate students and their research topic.

Research activities are balanced between all possible methods of exploring the earth system: from computational and numerical methods to observations to theory to laboratory experiments. We maintain our own machine shop, computer cluster, and other research facilitites to enable our faculty and students to perform cutting-edge research. Please explore our pages to learn about the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute.