User:Luan cedrowen/Professor W. Jackson Davis

Education and Appointments
W. Jackson Davis (born February 7, 1942, in Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American scientist and environmentalist. Raised in northern California, Davis was trained originally in zoology and the neurosciences (University of California at Berkeley). He was awarded the Ph. D. in biology (neurosciences) at the University of Oregon in 1967 and then spent three postdoctoral research years in the laboratory of Donald Kennedy at Stanford University before joining the faculty at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1969. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 2004. Davis has published more than 100 scientific papers as well as books in environmental policy, biology, animal behavior, psychology. He is Professor Emeritus and the Founding Director of the International Environmental Policy Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he was the Gordon Paul Smith Professor from 1995-2002.

Prizes
In 1984 he was awarded the Humboldt Prize from Germany for outstanding original research in the field of neurosciences and animal behavior.

Publications in Science and Environmental Policy
In the environmental area, Davis wrote one of the earliest books on the emerging consequences of peak oil (The Seventh Year; New York, Norton, 1979). He played a leading role in ending radioactive waste dumping at sea, having originally proposed a ban while serving as representative to South Pacific Island states to the U. N. London Convention. He is also known for his work on international climate policy. Working throughout the 1990s as scientific advisor to the U.N. Alliance of Small Island States during the climate negotiations, he authored the first negotiating draft of the Kyoto Protocol, much of which was eventually incorporated into the treaty as ratified. He has also contributed to nuclear non-proliferation, biodiversity, and ecological rehabilitation and sustainable development.

In biology Davis is known for his work on the neural basis of locomotion, brain mechanisms of behavioral choice, and the neural processes underlying animal learning. He has published diversely in the neurosciences, ethology and psychology, including animal movement, praying mantis courtship behavior, human dreaming, emotion, and human exercise physiology.

Exercise Physiology and 'The Miracle Workout'
More recently he developed and patented a new exercise system, Integrated Body Conditioning, described in three scientific papers and his book The Miracle Workout (New York, Ballantine, 2005).

Current Work
He resides in Boulder, Colorado, where he is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Environmental Studies Institute, a non-profit organization chartered to perform scientific research and public education on matters of public policy. His current environmental activities include research on climate change and ecological rehabilitation and sustainable development (www.EnvironmentalStudiesInstitute.org). Davis is also President and Executive Director of the Miracle Workout, LLC, a corporation formed to advance the Integrated Body Conditioning exercise system.