What is GHER?

The GHER is a research group of the University of Liège, directed by Professor J.-M. Beckers. It is devoted to marine and environmental study and modelling. Initiated in the seventies in the frame of the Programme National mer by Prof. J. Nihoul, the GHER participated in the study of many different sites such as the North Sea, the Black Sea, The Aral Sea, the South China Sea, the Bering Sea, the Persian Gulf or the Mediterranean Sea.

The GHER team is also responsible for the International Liège Colloquium of Ocean Dynamics, and the organization of the DEA européen en modélisation de l'environnement marin.

The GHER is currently grouping the following units:

•   Mathematical modelling, geophysical fluid dynamics
•   Chemical Oceanography
•   Ecohydrodynamics (now department of Life Sciences)
•   Coastal oceanography and environmental research
•   Interdisciplinary modelling of marine systems