Stephen Zoltan Kelety

Biographical Sketch

Stephen Zoltan Kelety is approaching his eleventh year as the Marine Superintendent at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, where he manages research vessels ROGER REVELLE, SALLY RIDE, ROBERT GORDON SPROUL, and research platform FLIP.

Zoltan is a US Naval Academy graduate and is a 28-year veteran of the United States Navy, retiring in 2008 with the rank of Captain. He served the nuclear powered attack submarines HYMAN G. RICKOVER, WHALE, and LA JOLLA and ballistic missile submarine GORGE C. MARSHALL and commanded the world’s deepest diving submarine DOLPHIN. He additionally served as Director of the US Navy’s Arctic Submarine Laboratory and completed a submerged winter Atlantic to Pacific crossing of the Arctic Ocean passing beneath the North Pole. He is a veteran of the Second Gulf War serving as the Planning Officer for the CONSTELLATION Battle Group and CTF 55.

Zoltan is married to the former Julia Craig of San Diego California.  Julia serves as a Judge in the Superior Court of San Diego County.  They have twin twenty-year-old sons.

Zoltan enjoys backpacking on the Pacific Crest Trail, cooking, the adoration of his two schipperkes, and performing root cause analysis on the death of his bonsai plants.