Starting on March 22, Adam Davis has been serving as Lead NOAA Scientific Support Coordinator on the recent Texas City Y Incident in Galveston Bay.

After completing my bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, I served for four years on active duty in the Army (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Operations) from 1993-1997. In the Army, I had the opportunity to travel to Australia, Germany, Sinai Peninsula, former Yugoslavia, and Ireland. After leaving the Army, I returned to school at the University of West Florida and shortly thereafter began my professional career with URS Corporation where I was employed as an environmental scientist focused primarily on groundwater remediation. I worked on many long-term remedial projects for companies such as Dupont, Chevron, Ashland Chemical, and others across the southeast region. I left URS in 2005 and went to work with a regional environmental consulting firm where I quickly became involved as a contractor to the EPA’s Emergency Response and Removal Branch. Emergency response work with the EPA included Hurricane Katrina response in EPA Region 4 as well as numerous train derailments, inland oils spills, and work on Superfund sites including cleanup of abandoned chrome plating and wood treatment facilities.

As a new Scientific Support Coordinator working at the Disaster Response Center in Mobile, Alabama, I am honored to continue in the strong tradition of providing scientific support to our state, local, and federal partners throughout the Gulf Coast region. While we have had our challenges in the past both from man-made and natural disasters, our region is a resilient one and we are fortunate to be a part of a strong and dedicated response community and a citizenry determined to preserve a quality of life that rests upon a vibrant and healthy environment.

I consider myself very fortunate to be a part of NOAA and a resident of the Gulf Coast and enjoy spending time with my wife and daughters. Whether it’s fishing and playing along our beautiful white sand beaches, or tooling around the bays, rivers, and creeks in our beat up old pontoon boat, we are grateful to live in a place so rich in history and natural beauty.

--Adam Davis

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