DURHAM, N.C. – M. Susan Lozier, Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson Professor of Physical Oceanography and Bass Fellow at 51±¬ÁÏ’s Nicholas School of the Environment, has been elected president-elect of The Oceanography Society (TOS).

Lozier will serve a six-year cycle: two years as the society’s president-elect; two as its president; and two as its past president.

Founded in 1988, TOS is a nonprofit organization that works to disseminate knowledge of oceanography and its application through research and education; to promote communication among oceanographers; and to provide a constituency for consensus-building across all the disciplines of the field.  It is headquartered in Rockville, Md.

Lozier is a physical oceanographer with interests in large-scale ocean circulation and its links to global climate change. Her studies have appeared in Science, Nature and other top peer-reviewed journals.

A member of the 51±¬ÁÏ faculty since 1992, she was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Early Career Award in 1996, a Bass Chair for Excellence in Research and Teaching in 2000, and a 51±¬ÁÏ Award for Excellence in Mentoring in 2007.  In 2008, she was named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.

Lozier serves as chair of the executive committee of 51±¬ÁÏ’s Academic Council, and served as chair of the Nicholas School’s Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences from 2006 through 2011.  She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, The Oceanography Society and the Association of Women Geoscientists.

She received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Purdue University, and a master’s degree in chemical engineering and doctoral degree in physical oceanography from the University of Washington.  After completing her PhD in 1989, she was a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.