Margaret Davidson
Margaret A. Davidson has served since 1996 as director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Coastal Services Center. The Coastal Services Center is a national enterprise established to accelerate access to the science and technology capabilities of NOAA and its partners, improving coastal and ocean resource management at state and local levels. From August 2000 to October 2002, Davidson also served as the acting assistant administrator of Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management. Before coming to NOAA, Margaret served 16 years with the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, 13 as the executive director. She began her coastal career as an assistant attorney general and special counsel for the Louisiana Department of Justice.
Davidson holds a Master of Marine Affairs from the University of Rhode Island and a Juris doctor from Louisiana State University. She has served in positions of leadership for several national and professional organizations, regularly teaches a graduate level multi-disciplinary course, and is frequently requested to serve as a facilitator and presenter for civic and professional organizations.
Her professional interests include climate and weather variability and impacts on coastal resources, integrated coastal management, and aquaculture and fisheries management. She was a Fulbright Scholar for coastal resource management at Prince of Songkhla University, Thailand in 1992-93.
Related Resources by Margaret Davidson from the Natural Hazards Library Staff
Coastal Ocean Observing Systems: Developing a National System and Ensuring Application
California and the World Ocean '02: Revisiting and Revising California's Ocean Agenda, 2002
A New Architecture for Coastal Inundation and Flood Warning Prediction
Marine Technology Society Journal, Winter 2006/2007