Susan Lozier

M. Susan Lozier
Oceanographer Susan Lozier giving the Sixteenth Annual Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture of the National Academies, at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPurdue University
University of Washington
Known forStudy of large-scale ocean circulation
AwardsAGU Ambassador Award (2016)
Scientific career
FieldsOceanography
InstitutionsGeorgia Institute of Technology
ThesisPotential vorticity dynamics of a quasigeostrophic ocean : a Lagrangian perspective (1989)

Susan Lozier is a physical oceanographer and the dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Sciences. Previously, she was the Ronie-Richelle Garcia-Johnson Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Her research focuses on large-scale ocean circulation, the ocean's role in climate variability, and the transfer of heat and fresh water from one part of the ocean to another.

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