Meet Rob Davies: The Scientist Behind Our World Leading Surf Forecast Science
The Welsh-born, NZ-based surfer, snowboarder and scientist wanted fresh tracks and uncrowded waves. So he wrote the code for surf-forecast.com and snow-forecast.com. 25 years on, they are the most viewed surf and snow forecast sites on the planet. So why has no one ever heard of him? In the early 1990s, Welsh snowboarder and surfer Rob Davies was living in landlocked Oxford doing a PhD in geophysics. Three hours' drive from the surf and even further from snow, Rob’s regular trips to Ireland, Sc