Climate and Global Change Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Other Geophysial Fluids The Paleogeographic Atlas Project High Pressure Geophysics Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology Paleontology and Evolution Other Departments and Related Institutions Affiliated Centers

The dynamics of geophysical fluids share common mathematics and numerical methodology, across a wide range of physical settings, from atmospheres and oceans to flow in ice sheets, mantle convection, and the behavior shocked silicate minerals (which are modeled as compressible fluids under these conditions). GFD research at the University of Chicago Department of the Geophysical Sciences deals with issues like stratospheric ozone depletion mantle convection the climate of Mars and other planets storm dynamics shock behavior associated with impact events on Mars and early Earth ice sheet interaction with glacial / interglacial climate ocean eddies and their effect on the upper ocean carbon cycle atmospheric water vapor response to global warming. These disparate topics are unified by similar fundamental physics enabling a stimulating scientific dialog across as immense range of traditional geophysical disciplines. An interest in fluids also unites the Geophysical Sciences department with the Departments of Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mathematics, and Argonne National Laboratory.

Relevant Faculty include:

• David Archer, Chemical Oceanography
• Bruce Buffett, Geodynamics
• Fred Ciesla, Fluid Dynamics Joining the Department in July 2008
• Douglas R. MacAyeal, Glaciology
• Noboru Nakamura, Atmospheric Dynamics
• Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Atmospheric Dynamics
• Frank M. Richter, Geochemistry
• Ramesh C. Srivastava, Cloud Physics