Steve Davis (scientist)

Steven J. Davis is an earth system scientist at the University of California, Irvine's Department of Earth System Science and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering[1]

Steven J. Davis
Born
Florida
NationalityAmerican
InstitutionUniversity of California, Irvine
Field
Alma mater

Biography

From 2001-2004, Davis worked as a corporate lawyer at Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich, LLC in Palo Alto, California advising venture-backed start-ups in Silicon Valley (now part of DLA Piper). He received his Ph.D in Geological and Environmental Sciences in 2008 from Stanford University.[2] He then worked as a post-doctoral researcher with Ken Caldeira at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Global Ecology from 2008 to 2012.[3]

Education

Davis received his undergraduate education at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, his Juris Doctor at the University of Virginia School of Law, and his doctorate from Stanford University.[4]

Research

Davis researches embedded emissions of carbon dioxide and air pollution in international trade,[5][6][7] energy systems,[8] carbon lock-in,[9][10] the quantities and causes of greenhouse gas emissions,[11][12] and the interactions of agriculture and the global carbon cycle.[13][14]

Awards

In 2015, Davis and his co-authors were awarded the Cozzarelli Prize by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences for a paper they published on the role of China's international trade and air pollution in the United States.[15] In 2018, Davis received the James B. Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for his contributions in developing a science that links global climate change and society, and was simultaneously elected AGU Fellow.

Selected publications
  • Davis, Steven J. et al (2018). "Net-zero emissions energy systems", Science, 360. 1419.
  • Feng, Kuishuang, Davis, Steven J., Sun, Laixiang and Hubacek, Klaus. (2015). "Drivers of the U.S. CO2 emissions 1997-2013", Nature Communications, 6. 7714.
  • Shearer, Christine, Bistline, John, Inman, Mason, and Davis, Steven J. (2014). "The effect of natural gas supply on U.S. renewable energy and CO2 emissions", Environmental Research Letters, 9. 094008.
  • Lin, Jintai, Pan, Da, Davis, Steven J. et al.. (2014). "China's international trade and air pollution in the United States", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (5). 1736-1741.
  • Davis, Steven J. and Socolow, Robert. (2014). "Commitment accounting of CO2 emissions", Environmental Research Letters, 9. 084018.
  • Davis, Steven J., Peters, Glen P. and Caldeira, Ken. (2011). "The supply chain of CO2 emissions", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (45). 18554-18559.
  • Davis, Steven J., Matthews, D. and Caldeira, Ken. (2010). "Future CO2 emissions and climate change from existing energy infrastructure", Science, 329. 1330-1335.
  • Burney, Jennifer, Davis, Steven J. and Lobell, David. (2010). "Greenhouse gas mitigation by agricultural intensification", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107 (26). 12052-12057.
  • Davis, Steven J. and Caldeira, Ken. (2010). "Consumption-based accounting of CO2 emissions", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107 (12). 5687-5693.

Other Affiliations

Davis co-founded two organizations related to climate change, the Climate Conservancy, a group working to assess and label consumer goods with their carbon footprints,[16] and Near Zero, a non-profit that "...provides credible, impartial, and actionable assessment with the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to near zero".[17]

Davis is on the editorial board of Environmental Research Letters.[18]

References
  1. Departmental directory, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCI
  2. "Steve Davis Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved on 14 March 2014.
  3. "Caldeira Lab". Retrieved on 27 November 2012.
  4. "Steve Davis Curriculum Vitae". www.ess.uci.edu. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  5. Broder, John. "Counting 'Outsourced' Greenhouse Gas Emissions", New York Times, 8 March 2010. Retrieved on 20 April 2012.
  6. "Trading Down", The Economist, 8 March 2010. Retrieved on 20 April 2012.
  7. "China Exports Pollution to U.S., Study Finds", New York Times, 20 January 2014. Retrieved on 10 June 2016.
  8. Walsh, Bryan. "Energy: Reducing CO2 Emissions Will Be Harder Than You Think", TIME Magazine, 9 September 2010. Retrieved on 20 April 2012.
  9. Main, Douglas. "We've Been Counting Carbon Dioxide Emissions All Wrong", TIME Magazine, 26 August 2014. Retrieved on 10 June 2016.
  10. Revkin, Andy. "Accounting for the Expanding Carbon Shadow From Coal-Burning Plants", Dot Earth, 28 August 2014. Retrieved on 10 June 2016.
  11. Netborn, Deborah. "Why an economic recession could be good for the planet", Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2015. Retrieved on 10 June 2016.
  12. Buckley, Chris. "China's Carbon Dioxide Emissions May Have Been Overstated by More Than 10%", New York Times, 19 August 2015. Retrieved on 10 June 2016.
  13. Harris, Richard. "For Developing Nations, Exports Boost CO2 Emissions", NPR, 8 March 2010. Retrieved on 20 April 2012.
  14. Coghlan, Andy. "Intensive farming 'massively slowed' global warming", New Scientist, 14 June 2010. Retrieved on 20 April 2012.
  15. Cozzarelli Prize
  16. O'Brien, Chris. "Beer and Climate Change", Beer Activist blog, 1 July 2008. Retrieved on 20 April 2012.
  17. Near Zero. Retrieved on 2 July 2018.
  18. ERL Editorial Board. Retrieved on 10 June 2016.
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