{"654986":{"#nid":"654986","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Susan Lozier Receives Top American Meteorological Society Honor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/about\/meet-susan-lozier\u0022\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/a\u003E, dean and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, is starting off the new year and semester with a top honor from the American Meteorological Society.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELozier, a physical oceanographer who also serves as president of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.agu.org\/\u0022\u003EAmerican Geophysical Union\u003C\/a\u003E and as a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, is the recipient of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ametsoc.org\/index.cfm\/ams\/about-ams\/ams-awards-honors\/awards\/science-and-technology-medals\/the-henry-stommel-research-award\/\u0022\u003E2022 Henry Stommel Research Medal\u003C\/a\u003E from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ametsoc.org\/index.cfm\/ams\/\u0022\u003EAmerican Meteorological Society (AMS)\u003C\/a\u003E for her \u0026ldquo;theoretical, observational, modeling contributions, and leadership in significantly improving our understanding of Atlantic Ocean circulation.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe distinction is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ametsoc.org\/index.cfm\/ams\/about-ams\/ams-awards-honors\/2022-awards-and-honors-recipients\/\u0022\u003Ethe highest honor\u003C\/a\u003E that AMS gives to an oceanographer, and is named in memory of Henry Stommel (1920-1992), a major contributor to the field of physical oceanography. Stommel, who developed early models on the global ocean conveyor belt, was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1989.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This award is particularly meaningful to me since my work has been so influenced through the years by Henry Stommel,\u0026rdquo; Lozier says. \u0026ldquo;Our paths crossed for a short time when I was a postdoctoral student at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/\u0022\u003EWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)\u003C\/a\u003E. He died the same month that I left WHOI for my faculty position at Duke \u0026mdash; but his work lives on to this day through my work and so many others.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Dean Lozier has made her mark developing the modern understanding of the overturning of the ocean especially in the North Atlantic Ocean,\u0026rdquo; says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/huey-dr-greg\u0022\u003EGreg Huey\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;She has led international efforts to establish systems of sensors in the North Atlantic to monitor the dynamics of the system,\u0026quot; Huey adds. \u0026quot;This is an amazing achievement which provides valuable data to challenge and improve our dynamical models of the ocean. For this reason, I can\u0026rsquo;t imagine a more appropriate or deserving winner of the Stommel Medal.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUnderstanding our oceans \u0026mdash; and climate\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOcean currents play \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/features\/2021\/08\/leading-quest-ocean-solutions\u0022\u003Ea critical role\u003C\/a\u003E in regulating climate through a constant global mixing of water, heat, salt, carbon, and nutrients.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Both the atmosphere and ocean are called our planetary fluids,\u0026rdquo; Lozier explains. \u0026ldquo;The movement of warm air and ocean warm water up to high latitudes, and the accompanying movement of cold water and air back to low latitudes makes our planet habitable for life.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut researchers have long worried that a key part of this \u0026ldquo;ocean conveyor belt\u0026rdquo; \u0026mdash; where warm tropical waters wash into the subpolar North Atlantic basin, cool off, and sink before spreading south \u0026mdash; could be slowing down.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor nearly a decade, Lozier has led a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?org=NSF\u0026amp;cntn_id=129117\u0026amp;preview=false\u0022\u003ENational Sciences Foundation (NSF) funded\u003C\/a\u003E project to better understand the issue, serving as a U.S. principal investigator for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.o-snap.org\/\u0022\u003EOverturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP)\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026mdash; an international ocean observing system that provides a continuous record of water temperature, salinity, speed, and other vital signs swirling between eastern Canada, Greenland, and the Scottish Shelf.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince summer 2014, OSNAP\u0026rsquo;s necklace of oceanic instruments \u0026mdash; along with a network of glider surveys and subsurface floats \u0026mdash; have gathered data that is analyzed against additional and comparative data from satellites, surface wind fields, and other arrays in the AMOC.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EClimate consensus \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Understanding the overturning of the ocean is a very difficult task as it is a relatively slow process and observational data is limited and difficult to obtain,\u0026rdquo; Huey says. \u0026ldquo;However, the importance of the overturning of the ocean to the Earth\u0026rsquo;s climate system is hard to overstate.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThree years ago, Lozier and team \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/full\/10.1126\/science.aau6592\u0022\u003Esurfaced a major unexpected driver\u003C\/a\u003E of AMOC\u0026rsquo;s overturning and variability: warm, salty, shallow waters between Greenland and Scotland. Those findings have helped improve global climate models \u0026mdash; and came in stark contrast to a previous consensus that pointed to the Labrador Sea, between Canada and Greenland, as the system\u0026rsquo;s primary source of subpolar overturning and variability.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough AMOC flows vary over time, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects an overall slowdown this century due to reduced deep convection in the North Atlantic. That\u0026rsquo;s why \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/03\/02\/climate\/atlantic-ocean-climate-change.html\u0022\u003Eresearch and outreach in this area\u003C\/a\u003E are especially critical now.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELozier is confident that collaborative awareness will lead to more research and solutions in this space \u0026mdash; and holds it key to informing proactive policy that will better shape our shared future. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m an optimist, but it\u0026rsquo;s definitely a challenge.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Dean Lozier is honored as recipient of the American Meteorological Society\u2019s top award in oceanography: the 2022 Henry Stommel Research Medal."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDean Lozier is honored as recipient of the American Meteorological Society\u0026rsquo;s top award in oceanography: the 2022 Henry Stommel Research Medal.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dean Lozier is honored as recipient of the American Meteorological Society\u2019s top award in oceanography: the 2022 Henry Stommel Research Medal."}],"uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2022-01-31 18:15:56","changed_gmt":"2022-02-03 16:19:31","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-02-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-02-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"654990":{"id":"654990","type":"image","title":"Susan Lozier, Dean of the College of Sciences (Photo: Tamara Lackey)","body":null,"created":"1643653561","gmt_created":"2022-01-31 18:26:01","changed":"1643655568","gmt_changed":"2022-01-31 18:59:28","alt":"","file":{"fid":"248352","name":"2022 02 Susan Lozier - headshot - Credit Tamara Lackey.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2022%2002%20Susan%20Lozier%20-%20headshot%20-%20Credit%20Tamara%20Lackey.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2022%2002%20Susan%20Lozier%20-%20headshot%20-%20Credit%20Tamara%20Lackey.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":406492,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2022%2002%20Susan%20Lozier%20-%20headshot%20-%20Credit%20Tamara%20Lackey.jpg?itok=T7erPNWS"}},"654992":{"id":"654992","type":"image","title":"NASA visualization of North Atlantic Ocean currents. 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