Personal statement
David specializes in aquatic ecology and has worked as a climate change scientist within the National Park Service (NPS) Climate Change Response Program since 2017. In this role David conducts and translates climate change research to support forward-looking land and water management. Since joining NPS David has developed and evaluated projections of changing hydrology within national parks (flood regimes, groundwater recharge, runoff) and supported climate-informed strategic planning with parks nationally. David is actively collaborating in efforts to support management of landscapes undergoing ecosystem transformation and to assess the adaptive capacity of species to climate change. Prior to his appointment with the NPS, David was the Director of Aquatic Conservation at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. In this role, he designed and managed a variety of initiatives aimed at enhancing the integrity of aquatic ecosystems across the United States. David completed his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 2013, where he was a Northwest Climate Science Center fellow. His doctoral research investigated the interactive effects of climate change, land-use alteration, and invasive species on Pacific salmon in rivers of the Northwest. David also worked as a staff scientist at the University of Washington and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, and as a consultant at Marine Research, Inc., based in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.