Mary Susan Lozier

Susan Lozier is Dean of the College of Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she holds the Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair. At Georgia Tech, she also has an appointment as Professor in the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences. Dr. Lozier is a physical oceanographer whose research examines the ocean’s role in the climate system, with a focus on large-scale circulation and its impact on the transfer of heat and freshwater; variability in the meridional overturning circulation; pathways of ocean flow; and the physical controls on marine primary productivity. Previously, Dr. Lozier was the Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson Professor of Physical Oceanography and Bass Fellow in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Dr. Lozier is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She currently serves as the President of the American Geophysical Union and is the international project lead for the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP), an observing system designed to measure the meridional overturning in the subpolar North Atlantic.