Background
Evans was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the second child of a lawyer and a homemaker.
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David Evans
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He attended Nicolet High School in Milwaukee. He completed his graduate work at the California Institute of Technology.
Career
He works on quantitative reconstruction of supercontinents. He is involved in the Snowball Earth theory of Precambrian ice ages by demonstrating that the magnetic latitudes of ancient ice deposits were tropical. He received his undergraduate degree in geology and geophysics from Yale College in 1992.
Using paleomagnetism of rocks from South Africa, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Russia and China, Evans has worked to reassemble the configuration of supercontinents that preceded Pangea.
He has also contributed primary data demonstrating that ancient ice ages had continental ice sheets reaching tropical latitudes, which has been incorporated into the Snowball Earth theory of the planet"s long term paleoclimate. Evans is involved with the latest efforts at reconstructing the history of supercontinents on Earth through the last three billion years.
He is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University. And the current coordinator of field student expeditions to locations including Norway, Queensland, Australia, British Columbia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa, as well as undergraduate excursions to Sicily and Barbados.
He has spent sabbatical leaves in Taiwan and Australia, where he studied modern and ancient mountain building processes.
Evans is a 2002 honoree of the Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, and a finalist for the Blavatnik Awards for young scientists. Interests He is fluent in German and proficient in Chinese. 1–8 J. 300, pp.
Membership
He was a member of drilling projects of the Kaapvaal craton with the Agouron institute for geobiology, and a member of the scientific team to develop a large igneous province global "barcode" record of plume magmatism on Earth.
