Neil Davies

Executive Director, Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station
BIDS Research Affiliate

Real name: 
Neil Davies

Neil Davies is Executive Director of UC Berkeley’s Gump South Pacific Research Station in Moorea, French Polynesia - the only coral reef site (MCR-LTER) in NSF’s Long Term Ecological Research network. Davies received his Ph.D. in evolutionary genetics from University College London and has conducted fieldwork across the Caribbean, Latin America, and Pacific Islands. He is an Associate Researcher at the Biodiversity Institute of Oxford University, and a member of the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEOBON - Genetics Working Group). He serves on the boards of the Genomic Standards Consortium, the National Association of Marine Labs and the Tetiaroa Society.  

His research at BIDS focuses on sustainability science and how biodiversity genomics can contribute to a computational model of place - including the ‘datafication’ of whole social-ecological systems from genomes to society.  To that end, he is lead PI of the Moorea Biocode Project, chair of the Genomic Observatories Network, and co-founder of the Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) Consortium

Projects

NSF-Award-450x254

Sampling Nature: A Network to Enhance the Natural History Value Chain for Sustainability Science

Davies - iSamples - project page banner 2 - 450x254

iSamples: Internet of Samples



Events

June 29, 2020 / 9:00am to July 10, 2020 / 5:00pm

January 11, 2016 / 9:00am to January 13, 2016 / 10:30am

November 21, 2014 / 9:00am to 10:00am

April 3, 2014 / 9:00am to 10:00am

November 19, 2013 / 9:00am to 10:00am