Cindy Lee Van
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- Of course come along!
- Cindy Lee Van Dover began her work in 1982. She is now a deep-sea biologist who has discovered new species of mussels, tubeworms, and bacteria. She started her journey on the "first biological expedition to hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise".
- Oh can I please come with you guys? To learn more about what is on the sea floor?
- Cindy Dover later got her master’s degree in ecology from UCLA in 1985.Then continued to learn about ocean life from "MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Biological Oceanography". She then joined numerous expeditions and published documents on different topics like "reproductive strategies and recruitment of vent invertebrates, vent food webs, and taxonomic descriptions of new species".
- Cindy Dover made many new discoveries but one of her most impactful was in 1989. She described a photoreceptor (an organism that reacts to light) which later led to finding a geothermal source of light in vents.
- In 1989, Cindy Dover got her Ph.D. from MIT. She also decided to join ALVIN a group is dedicated to operating a "deep-diving submersible".
- Come on guys lets go.
- Getting to the seafloor is amazing.
- In 1990, she became a pilot and commanded over 48 dives. Thanks to all of her hard work and being able to work with ALVIN "has taken her to nearly all of the known vent fields in the Atlantic and Pacific, as well as to deep-water seamounts, seeps, and other significant seafloor features". She is now, also, a Chair of the Oversight Committee for a "human-occupied deep-submergence vehicle".
- 47 down a few more to go!
- Cindy Dover's current research focuses mostly on deep-ocean exploration and the study of biodiversity/biogeography of invertebrates ("from chemosynthetic ecosystems").She has also published over ten books and 90 articles. She is also a Chief Scientist in NSF-and NOAA-sponsored field programs to hydrothermal vents and other underwater worlds..
- This book is called "The Ecology of Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vents". I hope you enjoy it!
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