Dr Clark Davenport

Clark Davenport's career spans 38 years of planning, managing and implementing remote sensing surveys for criminal, environmental, archaeological, groundwater, geotechnical, and mining investigations. He has performed remote sensing surveys in ten countries, and at the invitation of clients and governments has presented seminars and training programs in sixteen countries on six continents. He is a co-founder of NecroSearch International (1987) a group of scientists, investigators and academics who assist law enforcement agencies in criminal investigations. In 1998 he founded GeoForensics International. Dr Davenport provides criminal investigation services for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Drug Enforcement Administration, Secret Service, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, New South Wales Police, EPA's National Enforcement Investigations Centre and municipal agencies in more than twenty states and four countries. He is an active participant in NecroSearch's on-going applied research studying physical and chemical changes that occur after burial of a body. He is a former instructor at the Colorado Law Enforcement Training Academy and an invited instructor at the Red Rocks Community College Police Academy. He is recognised by law enforcement as an expert in the utilisation of remote sensing techniques to locate clandestine burials and evidence. Dr Davenport is a decorated Vietnam combat veteran, a member of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers and past chairman of the Engineering and Groundwater Committee of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. He is a board member of the Society of American Military Engineers, a founding member of the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society and an appointed faculty affiliate, Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University.