Susan Lozier

Why you should listen

As a physical oceanographer, Susan Lozier studies ocean circulation, or the large-scale movement of water and its influence on climate. She is currently the international project lead for the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program, OSNAP, an observing system designed to understand the ocean’s role in climate variability. She has embarked on research cruises in the South Pacific, the Labrador Sea and the Inner Passage off the western Canadian coast.

As an educator, Lozier is the dean of the College of Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she provides leadership to 3,000 students, 500 faculty members and researchers across six schools. She has devoted herself to developing mentoring programs and has personally helped countless aspiring oceanographers for more than three decades, including 28 years as a professor at Duke University. Her work in the ocean sciences community has been recognized with numerous awards and honors and, most recently, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.