David Olmstead Conover (born August 26, 1953)[1] is an American marine biologist and professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University.
David O. Conover joined the faculty of Stony Brook University in 1981 as an assistant professor.
In 1997, he was named the first Mote Eminent Scholar Chair in fisheries ecology.
[6] In 2013, he left the National Science Foundation, and was named Interim Vice President for Research at Stony Brook; he became Vice President for Research there two years later.
[7] Also in 2015, he received the Oscar E. Sette Award from the American Fisheries Society.