Apurva Dave Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Washington DC

At the National Academies, I manage a congressionally-mandated roundtable ($5M / 5 yrs) to support the Intelligence Community and Science agencies in analyzing environment-related risks to national security. I also co-manage a congressionally-mandated study on the Environmental and Socioeconomic Effects of Nuclear War.

In the Office of Environmental Quality, I was the principal action officer for the design, administration, and oversight of foreign assistance programming ($7M, 12 projects, 25 countries) to strengthen environmental monitoring and pollution management in developing countries.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

At Future Earth, I led coordination of a global community of 20+ science and research networks focused on environmental change and sustainable development, with experts across academic, public, private, and NGO sectors.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

At the Earth Commission, I co-managed the secretariat for an international scientific assessment to establish safe and just Earth System Boundaries, to underpin the development of science-based sustainability targets for businesses and cities worldwide through the Global Commons Alliance.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

At GMU I served as professional faculty in the newly established Institute for a Sustainable Earth and contributed to development of our initial Strategic Plan and search for our first Executive Director.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

At USGCRP, I led coordination of U.S. interagency strategy to advance international cooperation on global change research. I also served as an author and technical coordinator for the Fourth National Climate Assessment.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

At EPA, I supported technical, regulatory, and diplomatic efforts to mitigate air pollutants managed under U.S. and international law. This work entailed the coordination of a range of interagency and international teams and projects.

Nicholas School Of The Environment, Duke University

For my postdoc, I served as the lead analyst for a project examining the impacts of climate and atmospheric forcing on regional scale ocean dynamics and marine ecosystem variability, using coupled physical-biogeochemical ocean modeling.

Nicholas School Of The Environment, Duke University

As a departmental instructor I designed and taught a range of undergraduate and graduate courses in Ocean and Atmosphere Science and Global Environmental Change for an academically and culturally diverse student community.

Nicholas School Of The Environment, Duke University

As a graduate researcher, I conducted interdisciplinary research on the linkages between atmospheric and climate variability, ocean dynamics, and marine ecosystem variability at global and regional scales.

Tampa, Florida

I had the great privilege to teach science to children in my community for 5 years. During that time, I taught biology, physical science, and Honours/ AP Chemistry at George S. Middleton High School, an urban-core science and technology magnet program. Go Tigers!

As an analyst, I conducted IC, GC-MS, ICP-MS analysis of environmental samples in a NELAC certified facility.

As a graduate researcher, I conducted interdisciplinary research to reconstruct the ocean's and climate's past variability, by analyzing chemical signals in the Earth's geologic record.

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Ph.D., Earth And Ocean Sciences

Disciplines: Physical Oceanography, Marine Biogeochemistry Dissertation: Physical Controls on Low- and Mid-Latitude Marine Primary.

M.A., Geological Sciences

Disciplines: Paleoclimatology; Chemical Oceanography Thesis: Reconstructing North Atlantic Hydrographic Variability using Foraminiferal.

B.S., Chemistry

National Merit Scholar, Florida Academic Scholar, Model United Nations, University Symphony Orchestra.