As the Alaska Sea Grant Coastal Community Resilience Specialist, Davin provides expertise, research, and extension services to communities across Alaska. Davin facilitates workshops and other activities by building trusted collaborations to provide data and decision support tools to Alaskans to adapt to rapidly changing environmental conditions, build resilience, and enhance community well-being. Davin co-developed the Adapt Alaska website, which provides a resilience and adaptation planning guide paired with case examples and resources. The website is hosted by Alaska Sea Grant.

Davin facilitates workshops and other activities related to coastal resilience, addressing monitoring, mitigation, resilience, and adaptation to enhance community well-being, health, economics, workforce development, and other aspects that make communities more resilient. Davin also conducts collaborative research projects that inform extension, outreach, and education activities in coastal Alaska communities. Before joining Alaska Sea Grant, Davin spent 15 years at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game conducting social-science research and managing the subsistence program in Southern Alaska. Davin has also been an adjunct professor of anthropology since 2003 at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). Davin, a lifelong Alaskan from the Susitna Valley, graduated from UAA with a degree in history, then spent two years in Mali, West Africa, conducting natural resource management development work in the Peace Corps before returning to UAA to earn an MA in applied cultural anthropology, the first graduate of this degree program. Davin received a Ph.D. in anthropology from UAF in 2017. His dissertation, as well as his current work, examines the societal and economic factors intertwined with climatic and environmental changes that influence subsistence economies crucial for culture in Alaskan communities.