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Prior to coming to the UO, Conover spent 35 years as a researcher and administrator at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York, where he served as a professor of marine science, dean of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, and the institution’s vice president for research. Additionally, Conover did a stint as director of the Division of Ocean Sciences at the National Science Foundation, the foundation’s second-largest division, and played a role in helping launch the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook.

As an emeritus professor, Conover will build upon a research career that has included some noteworthy discoveries involving the effects of temperature on sex determination in fish, the evolutionary mechanisms by which fish adapt to climate change, the long-term genetic consequences of size-selective fishing, and numerous other lines of inquiry.