Robert Ballard

expedition leader, scientist

Bob Ballard is a graduate of the University of California with a degree in geology and chemistry and with a commission in Army Intelligence. Later his Commission was transferred to the U.S. Navy, where he remains a Commander in the Naval Reserve. Bob Ballard is president of the Institute for Exploration in Mystic, Connecticut, a senior scientist emeritus in the Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering at the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution, and founder of the JASON Foundation for Education.