Professor Emeritus of Ecosystem Science and Management and Geospatial Data Sciences
Don Scavia, Professor of Environment and Sustainability and Professor of Environmental Engineering, retired from active faculty status at the end of 2017. During his time at U-M, he and students and postdocs developed and applied numerical models and assessments at the science policy interface, focused on the effects of land use and climate change on coastal marine and Great Lakes ecosystems. From 2009-2016, he was the Graham Family Professor of Sustainability, Special Counsel to the U-M President for Sustainability, and the first Director of the Graham Sustainability Institute. He is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability.
Don served previously as SEAS Research Associate Dean, Director of Michigan Sea Grant, and Director of U-M’s cooperative institute with NOAA. Prior to coming to U-M in 2004, he held positions between 1975 and 2003 as Chief Scientist of NOAA’s National Ocean Service, Director of the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, and a research scientist at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory.