Jack E. Davis Interview

Our most recent interview is with author and professor at the University of Florida, Jack E. Davis. He also holds the Rothman Family Endowed Chair in the Humanities and teaches environmental history and sustainability studies there. Jack brings an expert perspective to the importance and evolution of the Gulf of Mexico, all focused around coastal habitats and waters.

He helps bring to our story of habitat protection and resilience an expansive historical context charting the steady degradation of the Gulf's environment from the first European explorers to today's most dangerous impacts from climate change. Jack has lived much of his life in Florida near the eastern Gulf coast and he developed an early love for it's waters and wild inhabitants. An enthusiastic kayaker—like Jim Blackburn—he poured his passion for the region into the Pulitzer Prize-winning book for history, The Gulf:The Making of an American Sea.