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Cindy Lee Van Dover is an American oceanographer and professor at the College of William and Mary. She was born in 1954 in New York City. Van Dover earned her B.A. in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1976 and her Ph.D. in oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1982. She was the first woman to lead a research submersible dive in the deep sea. Van Dover has been a professor at the College of William and Mary since 1988. She is the director of the Institute of Marine Science and the director of the National Science Foundation's Center for Coastal and Marine Ecosystems. Van Dover has written several books, including The Ecology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents (2000) and Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea's 'Monsters' and the World They Live In (2005). Van Dover is married to oceanographer Robert Ballard and has two children. She is 66 years old.

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In addition to research, Van Dover has authored a popular book for the lay audience about the deep sea and her experiences as an ALVIN pilot (Deep-Ocean Journeys; Addison-Wesley, 1997, a.k.a. The Octopus’s Garden). She is the author of the first textbook on hydrothermal vents (The Ecology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents; Princeton University Press, 2000), is curator of ‘Beyond the Edge of the Sea’, a traveling exhibition of original deep-sea art by watercolor artist Karen Jacobsen, and is helping to develop Art and Science: Envisioning Ocean Depths, a mixed media exhibition. She has published over 90 academic papers, in addition to policy briefs, encyclopedia entries, and extended abstracts.

In 1982, Van Dover joined the first biological research expedition to the East Pacific Rise. In 1990, she became the 49th to earn the Naval Dolphinfish pin to operate and pilot the DSV Alvin, in addition to becoming Alvin's first female pilot. She made 48 dives as pilot-in-command of Alvin and participated in more than 100 such dives in total. On such expeditions, she discovered new species of mussels, shrimp, tube worms, and bacteria.

Dr. Van Dover graduated from Rutgers University in 1977 with a B.S. in Environmental Science. In 1985, Van Dover earned her Master's degree in ecology from UCLA. She received her Ph.D. in 1989 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Biological Oceanography. In the MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Biological Oceanography, she joined numerous expeditions and published on diverse topics such as reproductive strategies and recruitment of vent invertebrates, vent food webs, and taxonomic descriptions of new species. On receiving her Ph.D. in 1989, Van Dover joined the group that operates the deep-diving submersible ALVIN.

Cindy Lee Van Dover (born 1954) is the Harvey Smith Professor of Biological Oceanography and chair of the Division of Marine Science and Conservation at Duke University. She is also the director of the Duke University Marine Laboratory. Her primary area of research is oceanography, but she also studies biodiversity, biogeochemistry, conservation biology, ecology, and marine science.

Hometown: Eatontown, New Jersey Date of birth: May 16, 1954