Craig Cary

Dr. Craig Cary was exposed to the marine environment at an early age and became interested in studying marine biology during his childhood education. He attended Florida Institute of Technology, majoring in marine biology before receiving the 1977 Our World-Underwater Scholarship. He spent his year traveling around the world working with marine scientists from all disciplines. Following his scholarship, he earned a master's degree at San Diego State University, studying the culture of marine bivalves. Later, he worked as a marine naturalist in Indonesia. He later acquired a Ph.D. from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in hydrothermal vent research. Dr. Cary continued on in his career as a marine scientist, receiving an NSF Marine Biotechnology Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oregon State University and later accepting a position as an Associate Professor at the College of Marine Studies at the University of Delaware in 1994. He continues to run a lab studying vent symbioses and vent chemistry affects on microbial community structure and composition. Dr. Cary has also led many research cruises and deep-sea dives on the Alvin submersible as chief scientist.