David Evans (geologist)

David A. D. Evans
Born (1970-04-07) 7 April 1970
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
NationalityAmerican, Australian
Alma materYale College, California Institute of Technology
Known forGeology
Scientific career
FieldsPaleomagnetism, Supercontinents
InstitutionsYale University

David A. D. Evans is an American professor of geology and geophysics at Yale University. He works on quantitative reconstruction of supercontinents. He is involved in the Snowball Earth theory of Precambrian ice ages by demonstrating that the magnetic latitudes of ancient ice deposits were tropical. He is also the head of Berkeley College, one of Yale's fourteen residential colleges.