Douglas Davis
Scientist and Master Gardener
Davis, Douglas D.
Professor Emeritus
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332
Phone: 404-385-0583
E-mail: douglas.davis@eas.gatech.edu
Educational Background:
• B.S. Chemistry 1962 University of Washington
• Ph.D. Chemistry 1966 University of Florida
Employment History:
• Research Fellow, National Academy of Sciences 1966-1969 (National Bureau of Standards)
• Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Maryland 1969-1972
• Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Maryland 1972-1976
• Principal Research Scientist, Georgia Institute of Technology, Applied Sciences, Lab, Engineering Experiment Station 1976-1977
• Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech 1977-2003
• Professor Emeritus of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech 2004-Present
Current Fields of Interest:
Tropospheric photochemical modeling, global ozone budgets; global atmospheric sources of nitrogen, sulfur, and the halogens; mechanistic studies of tropospheric sulfur halogens, Antarctic chemistry, gas-to-particle conversion processes, global biogeochemical cycles, environmental atmospheric chemistry.
Honors, Awards and Recognitions:
• Research Fellow, National Academy of Sciences (1966-1969)
• 1974 State of Maryland outstanding Young Scientist Award.
• Certificate of Appreciation, National Research Council/National Academy of Science, 1984.
• Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Advisor, Sigma Xi Award 1987.
• Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Advisor Sigma Xi Award 1998.
• "Best Scientific Paper" at Georgia Tech, awarded by Sigma Xi, 1999.
• NASA Group Achievement Award for Outstanding Performance in PEMWest A and B Field Studies, 1999.
• Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Award for A Sustained Research, 2002.
• American Geophysical Union Fellow, 2003.
• Awarded Professor Emeritus status, 2004.
Professional Society Memberships:
American Chemical Society (ACS), American Geophysical Union (AGU), American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Selected Scientific publications (178 Total, >5000 citations):
• D. Davis, G. Chen, M. Buhr, J. Crawford, D. Lenschow, B. Lefer, R. Shetter, F. Eisele, L. Mauldin, A. Hogan, South Pole NOx Chemistry: an assessment of factors controlling variability and absolute levels, Atmospheric Environment, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2004.04.039.
• S.P. Oncley, M. Buhr, D.H. Lenschow, D. Davis, S.R. Semmer, Observations of summertime NO fluxes and boundary-layer height at the South Pole during ISCAT 2000 using scalar similarity, Atmospheric Environment, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2004.05.053.
• Davis, D., et al., An assessment of western North Pacific ozone photochemistry based on springtime observations from NASA's PEM-West B (1994) and TRACE-P (2001) field studies, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 8829, doi:10.1029/2002JD003232, 2003.
• Wild, O., D. Davis, et al., Chemical transport model ozone simulations for spring 2001 over the western Pacific: Regional ozone production and its global impacts, J. Geophys. Res. , 109 , D15S02, doi:10.1029/2003JD004041, 2004.
• Davis, D., J.B. Nowak, G. Chen, M. Buhr, R. Arimoto, A. Hogan, F. Eisele, L. Mauldin, D. Tanner, R. Shetter, B. Lefer, P. McMurry, Unexpected high levels of NO observed at South Pole, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 3625-3628, 2001.
• Bradshaw, J., D. Davis, G. Grodzinsky, S. Smyth, R. Newell, and S. Liu, Observed Distributions of Nitrogen Oxides in the Remote Free Troposphere from NASA GTE Programs, Review of Geophysics, 38, p61-116, 2000.
• Clarke, A.D., D. D. Davis, V. Kapustin, F. Eisele, G. Chen, I. Paluch, D. Lenschow, A. R. Bandy, D. Thornton, K. Moore, L. Mauldin, M. Litchy, M. Carroll, J. Collins, and G. Abercook, Particle Nucleation in the Tropical Boundary Layer and its Coupling to Marine Sulfur Sources, Science, 282, 89, 1998.
• Crawford, J., D. Davis, G. Chen, J. Bradshaw, S. Sandholm, Y. Kondo, J. Merrill, S. Liu, E. Browell, G. Gregory, B. Anderson, G. Sachse, J. Collins, J. Barrick, D. Blake, R. Talbot, R. Pueschel, and A. Bachmeier, Implications of large scale shifts in tropospheric NO x levels in the remote tropical Pacific, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 28,447-28,468, 1997.
• Crawford, J., D. Davis, G. Chen, J. Bradshaw, S. Sandholm, Y. Kondo, J. Merrill, S. Liu, E. Browell, G. Gregory, B. Anderson, G. Sachse, J. Collins, J. Barrick, D. Blake, R. Talbot, R. Pueschel, and A. Bachmeier, An assessment of ozone photochemistry in the extratropical western North Pacific: Impact of continental outflow during late winter/early spring, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 28,469-28,487, 1997.
• Davis. D., J. Crawford, S. Liu, S. McKeen, A. Bandy, D. Thornton, F. Rowland and D. Blake, Potential Impact of Iodine on Tropospheric Levels of Ozone and Other Critical Oxidants J. Geophys. Res., 101, p 2135, 1996.
• Chin, M. and D. Davis, A Reanalysis of Carbonyl Sulfide as a Source of Stratospheric Background Sulfur Aerosol, J. Geophys. Res., 100, p8993, 1995.
• Berresheim, H., P.H. Wine, and D.D. Davis, Chemical Composition and Climate of the Atmosphere, chapter on "Sulfur in the Atmosphere", H.B. Singh, Editor, Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing Co., 251-307, 1995.
Graduate Students in the Last Five Years: Jim Crawford, Brian DiNunno, John Nowak, Xingyi Gong
Postdoctoral in the Last Five Years: Lihua Wang, Chu-Han Song
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Robert Hanrahan
Postdoctoral Advisor: Drs. Walter Braun and Jim McNesby
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