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Dr. Geoff Davies is a Senior Fellow in the Research School of Earth Sciences of the Institute of Advanced studies at the Australian National University. He was educated in Australia and at Caltech and Harvard in the USA. He held university appointments in the USA and lived there for a total of fifteen years before returning to Australia and his present appointment.

He is a well-established geophysicist at the international forefront of his field of plate tectonics and mantle convection. He has published over 85 scientific papers and the book Dynamic Earth: Plates, Plumes and Mantle Convection (Cambridge University Press, 1999). He is widely recognised by geophysicists and geochemists for his work integrating plate tectonics, mantle convection and the chemical evolution of the Earth's mantle. In 1992 he was made a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, an honour limited to 0.1% of roughly 30,000 members in a given year.

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Professional resume extracts

Academic Qualifications
1966: B.Sc. (Hons.), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
1968: M.Sc., Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Thesis: "The structure of very massive stars including the effects of a magnetic field and rotation."
1973: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A. Thesis: "Elasticity of Solids at High Temperatures and Pressures: Theory, Measurement and Geophysical Application."

Present appointment
Senior Fellow, Australian National University, since July, 1983.

Previous appointments
1973-1975: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University.
1975-1978: Assistant Professor, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.
1978-1981: Assistant Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
1981-1983: Associate Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

Honours and recent notable invitations
1992: Fellow, American Geophysical Union (an honour accorded to no more than 0.1% of the membership each year).
All-expenses invitation to speak at the Carnegie Institution of Washington centenary celebration symposium The Living Earth , 23-26 September, 2002.
All-expenses invitation to the Superplume symposium, Tokyo, January 1999.


	Dr. Geoff Davies is a Senior Fellow in the Research School of Earth Sciences of the Institute of Advanced studies at the Australian National University. He was educated in Australia and at Caltech and Harvard in the USA. He held university appointments in the USA and lived there for a total of fifteen years before returning to Australia and his present appointment. He is a well-established geophysicist at the international forefront of his field of plate tectonics and mantle convection. He has published over 85 scientific papers and the book Dynamic Earth: Plates, Plumes and Mantle Convection (Cambridge University Press, 1999). He is widely recognised by geophysicists and geochemists for his work integrating plate tectonics, mantle convection and the chemical evolution of the Earth's mantle. In 1992 he was made a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, an honour limited to 0.1% of roughly 30,000 members in a given year. Scientific web site Professional resume extracts Academic Qualifications 1966: B.Sc. (Hons.), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. 1968: M.Sc., Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Thesis: "The structure of very massive stars including the effects of a magnetic field and rotation." 1973: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A. Thesis: "Elasticity of Solids at High Temperatures and Pressures: Theory, Measurement and Geophysical Application." Present appointment Senior Fellow, Australian National University, since July, 1983. Previous appointments 1973-1975: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University. 1975-1978: Assistant Professor, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. 1978-1981: Assistant Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. 1981-1983: Associate Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. Honours and recent notable invitations 1992: Fellow, American Geophysical Union (an honour accorded to no more than 0.1% of the membership each year). All-expenses invitation to speak at the Carnegie Institution of Washington centenary celebration symposium The Living Earth , 23-26 September, 2002. All-expenses invitation to the Superplume symposium, Tokyo, January 1999.