University of Tasmania, Australia

Professor David H. Green

Hon Assoc and Emeritus Professor

Contact Details

Career summary

• 1957 - 1959 Geologist, Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources
• 1962 - 1965 Research Fellow; 1965-1968 Fellow; 1968-1974 Senior Fellow; 1974-1976 Professorial Fellow; Department of Geophysics and Geochemistry, and Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra
• 1969 - 1970 (sabbatical leave) Norwegian Research Council, Postdoctoral Fellow, Oslo
• 1975 - (sabbatical leave) Visiting Professor in Petrology, Division of Geological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
• 1977 - 1994 Professor of Geology, University of Tasmania
• 1991 - 1993 Chief Science Adviser, Commonwealth Department Arts, Sport, the Environment and Territories, Canberra (on leave from University of Tasmania)
• 1994 - 2001 Director, Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra
• 1998 - Deputy Vice-Chancellor, The Australian National University, Canberra
• 2001 - 2008 Professor Emeritus, Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra
• 2008 - Professor Emeritus, School of Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart

Professor David Green's research fields are in petrology, particularly of basaltic and ultramafic rocks and the processes of melting and metamorphism in the Earth's deep crust and upper mantle. He is an experimental petrologist, using laboratory techniques at high pressures and temperatures to simulate processes in the Earth. Experimental projects are paralleled by studies of natural rocks or are directly related to geodynamic models of magmatism and plate tectonics. He continues to explore the fundamental roles that very small contents of carbon and hydrogen (as water, methane, diamond or graphite, and carbon dioxide) play in the mineralogy and melting characteristics of the Earth. David is author or co-author of over 230 scientific research papers.

Awards

• 1952 University of Tasmania Entrance Scholarship.
• 1953 Australian Atomic Energy Commission undergraduate scholarship.
• 1958 Science Research Scholarship of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, for postgraduate study in UK.
• 1968 Edgeworth David Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Awarded to 'Australian research worker, under the age of 35, for distinguished contributions to science'.
• 1974 Elected as Fellow, Australian Academy of Science.
• 1977 Stillwell Medal, Geological Society of Australia (with A.J. Irving).
• 1982 Mawson Medal and Lecture in Earth Sciences, Australian Academy of Science.
• 1985 Elected as Honorary Foreign Fellow, European Union of Geosciences.
• 1986 Elected as Honorary Foreign Fellow, Geological Society of America.
• 1987 Elected as Fellow of Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
• 1990 Inaugural Jaeger Medal for Earth Sciences, the Australian Academy of Science.
• 1991 Elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of London, (FRS)
• 1991 Louis A. Murray Fellowship, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• 1996 Hallimond Lecture, The Mineralogical Society, London
• 1998 Abraham-Gottlob-Werner-Medal awarded by the German Mineralogical Society in recognition of contributions to modern petrology.
• 2000 Murchison Medal, The Geological Society, UK
• 2001 Awarded Centenary Medal of Commonwealth of Australia ¡®for service to Australian society and science¡¯ in the 100 years since Federation
• 2001 Australian Citation Laureate, ISI/Thomson Scientific
• 2001/02 Humboldt Foundation Research Prize
• 2003 Elected as Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• 2004 Elected as Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
• 2006 Member, Order of Australia (AM)
• 2007 Awarded International Gold Medal of the Geological Society of Japan, in recognition of research achievements and contributions to the geological community of Japan.
• 2007 Elected as Fellow of the Geological Society of Australia.
• 2012 Medal of the International Mineralogical Association for prolonged research excellence in mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry
• 2012 Inaugural Shen©\Su Sun Lecturer to deliver lectures at the Chinese Annual National Petrology and

Research activity

Publications

• View full list of UTAS refereed publications here

Other

Completion of writing up of experimental and petrological projects on upper mantle petrogenesis; research collaborations linked to prior work.