Dr. David Fothergill is the Scientific Director of the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory (NSMRL), Groton, CT, USA. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Sports Science from Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, England; an M.Sc. in Kinesiology from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada; and a Ph.D. in Occupational Biomechanics from the University of London (Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine), Hampstead, England. Dr. David Fothergill is also a qualified U.S. Navy-trained diver and has, for the past 30 years, conducted submarine, diving, and environmental physiology research for the U.S. Navy at the Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD (1992–1997) and at NSMRL (1997–present), and was a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Research and Education in Special Environments, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA (1994–2009). His research interests include inert gas narcosis, CO2 toxicity, pulmonary oxygen toxicity, nitric oxide physiology in extreme environments, underwater breathing apparatus design and evaluation, bioeffects of underwater sound, submarine escape and rescue, biomechanics of human strength, and human thermal physiology.
