Susan Lozier is a physical oceanographer and the dean of the

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's College of Sciences. Previously, she was the Ronie-Richelle Garcia-Johnson Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences in the

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. 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.

Education

Lozier received her

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degree from

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in 1979, and her Master of Science (1984) and Doctor of Philosophy (1989) degrees from the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

Professional work

Lozier was a post-doctoral fellow at the

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before joining the faculty at Duke University. She is a principal investigator for the

Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program The Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP) is an international project designed to study the mechanistic link between water mass transformation at high latitudes and the meridional overturning circulation in the North Atlantic ...

(OSNAP), responsible for coordinating its international and national projects. Lozier was the first woman to graduate from the University of Washington's physical oceanography doctoral program, and is active in the community mentoring program, MPOWIR (Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to Increase Retention). In 2020 she was elected to the

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. Lozier was the featured speaker for the 16th Annual Roger Revelle Annual Commemorative Lecture, sponsored by the National Academies and held at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. on March 4, 2015, presenting her lecture on ''Overturning Assumptions: Past, Present, and Future Concerns about the Ocean's Circulation''. Lozier started a two-year term as president of the

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in 2021.

Select publications

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Awards

* Rachel Carson Award Lecture,

(2001) *Ambassador Award, American Geophysical Union (2016) *Joanne Simpson Mentorship Award, American Meteorological Society (2017) *Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020)

References

External links

Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program
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Autobiographical sketch in "Women in Oceanography: a Decade Later," E.S. Kappel. Oceanography: 27 (4), page 161
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