Dr. Peter Davis is currently Executive Director of Project IDA at the University of California, San Diego. Project IDA operates seismographic stations in 41 locations in 26 countries around the globe. Data from these stations are used for fundamental scientific research, hazard warning, and test ban treaty compliance monitoring. When the US Geological Survey announces that an earthquake has taken place somewhere in the world, IDA instruments provide key information used by that agency to determine where, when and how large that earthquake was.
Dr Davis joined UCSD in 1993 following work at Teledyne as a consultant to DARPA on nuclear test ban treaty verification issues. He received a BS from Lehigh University, a Ph.D. from Princeton, and held two postdoctoral fellowships prior to his time at Teledyne: one from the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, DC, and one from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung in Erlangen, (West) Germany. Following his undergraduate studies, he spent one year at the University of Edinburgh on a Rotary Graduate Fellowship. He is married to Sarah Leach Davis and has two children, Mollie and Matt.
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