Steve Davis (scientist)

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Steven J. Davis
Born
Florida
NationalityAmerican
InstitutionUniversity of California, Irvine
Field
  • Earth System Science
Alma mater

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] He is a highly cited researcher[2].

Education and legal career[]

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.[3] 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 PhD in Geological and Environmental Sciences in 2008 from Stanford University.[4] 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.[5]

Research[]

Davis researches embedded emissions of carbon dioxide and air pollution in international trade,[6][7][8] energy systems,[9] carbon lock-in,[10][11] the quantities and causes of greenhouse gas emissions,[12][13] and the interactions of agriculture and the global carbon cycle.[14][15]

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.[16] 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,[17] and Near Zero, a non-profit that "...provides credible, impartial, and actionable assessment with the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to near zero".[18]

Davis is on the editorial board of Environmental Research Letters.[19]

References[]

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