David H. Evans, PhD , is professor emeritus of Zoology at the University of Florida. Dr. Evans received his AB in Zoology from DePauw University, Indiana, in 1962 and his PhD in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, California, in 1967. He held postdoctoral positions in the Biological Sciences Department of the University of Lancaster, United Kingdom, and the Groupe de Biologie Marine du C.E.A., Villefranche-sur-mer, France, in 1967 and 1968. In 1969, he joined the Department of Biology at the University of Miami, Florida, as assistant professor and served as professor and chair from 1978 to 1981, when he became professor of Zoology at the University of Florida. He served as chair of that department from 1982 to 1985 and 2001 to 2006. He also held affiliate professorships in the departments of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences and Physiology and Functional Genomics at the University of Florida. Dr. Evans served as Director of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL), Salisbury Cove, Maine, from 1983 to 1992, as well as Director of the MDIBL’s Center for Membrane Toxicity Studies from 1985 to 1992. He served on a White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Acid Rain Peer Review Panel from 1982 to 1984 and on the Physiology and Behavior Panel of the National Science Foundation from 1992 to 1996. He is a member of the Society for Experimental Biology, Sigma Xi, and the American Physiological Society. He has served on the editorial boards of The Biological Bulletin , Journal of Experimental Biology , Physiological and Biochemical Zoology , Journal of Experimental Zoology, and Journal of Comparative Physiology . He is currently serving on the editorial board of the American Journal of Physiology (Regulatory, Comparative, Integrative Physiology) . Dr. Evans received the University of Miami Alpha Epsilon Delta Premedical Teacher of the Year Award in 1974, the University of Florida and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Awards in 1992, the University of Florida Teacher–Scholar of the Year Award in 1993, the Florida Blue Key Distinguished Faculty Award in 1994, the University of Florida Professorial Excellence Program Award in 1996, the University of Florida Chapter of Sigma Xi Senior Research Award in 1998, and a University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship in 2001. In 1999, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2008, he was awarded the August Krogh Lectureship of the Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology Section of the American Physiological Society. Dr. Evans has presented over 75 invited lectures and seminars, has published nearly 120 papers and book chapters and 160 abstracts, and has edited three editions of The Physiology of Fishes for CRC Press. He has been the recipient of research grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the American Heart Association. His current research interests center on the hormonal and paracrine control of fish gill perfusion and epithelial transport.
