Dr. Geoff Davies is a scientist, author and commentator.
He is a retired Senior Fellow (now a Visiting Fellow) in geophysics in the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University, http://people.rses.anu.edu.au/davies_g/.
In economics he is the author of Economia and The Nature of the Beast. He has also published two papers with the World Economics Association and several discussions on their blog site. See more detail here.
He has long experience in assessing fractious debates on difficult topics. His commentaries have appeared in The Drum Unleashed, Eureka Street, The Canberra Times, New Matilda, Australasian Science and On Line Opinion. He has lectured on New Science and Old Wisdom and Playing With Superfire (the misapplication of technology to biological systems).
He has authored over one hundred scientific papers and two scientific books and has a Hirsch index of 36 (36 papers each with at least 36 citations, indicating significant international standing and influence).
In 2005 he was awarded the inaugural Augustus Love medal for geodynamics by the European Geosciences Union. He was selected in 1992 as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
His most recent scientific book, Mantle Convection for Geologists (Cambridge University Press, 2011), won the 2011 Mary B. Ansari Best Reference Work Award of the GeoScience Information Society.
Books
Dynamic Earth: Plates, Plumes and Mantle Convection, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999.
Economia: New economic systems to Empower People and Support the Living World, ABC Books, Sydney, 2004.
Mantle Convection for Geologists, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011.
The Nature of the Beast: How Economists Mistook Wild Horses for a Rocking Chair, eBook 2012.
