Green, David Headley (1936 - 2024)

Summary

David Headley Green was Director, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University from 1994 to 2001. He has used laboratory experimental techniques to duplicate the very high pressures and temperatures which exist in the earth's crust and uppermost mantle. The experimental studies have led to models of the origins of, and relationships between, different volcanic magmas or melts in the earth. He has also led studies of the nature of fluids, particularly methane, water and carbon dioxide, in the deep earth, and their relationships with melting

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Chronology

1957

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc(Hons)), University of Tasmania

1957 - 1959

Career position - Geologist, Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources

1958

Award - 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship

1960

Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Tasmania

1962

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Cambridge

1962 - 1965

Career position - Research Fellow, Australian National University

1965 - 1968

Career position - Fellow, Australian National University

1967

Award - Edgeworth David Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales

1967

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1968 - 1974

Career position - Senior Fellow, Australian National University

1969 - 1970

Career position - Professorial Fellow, Norwegian Research Council

1974 - 1976

Career position - Professorial Fellow, Department of Geophysics and Geochemistry, Australian National University

1974 - 2024

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1975

Career position - Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, U.S.A.

1977

Award - F. L. Stillwell Medal, Geological Society of Australia

1977 - 1981

Career position - Member, Australian Research Grants Committee

1977 - 1993

Career position - Professor of Geology, University of Tasmania

1978 - 1981

Career position - Member of Council, Geological Society of Australia

1980 - 1981

Career position - Vice-President, Geological Society of Australia

1982

Award - Mawson Medal and Lecture, Australian Academy of Science

1982 - 1985

Career position - Member, Australian Science and Technology Council

1984 - 1990

Career position - Chairman, Steering Committee for National Research Facility, 'ORV Franklin'

1985 - 1987

Career position - Member, Advisory Council, Bureau of Mineral Resources

1985 - 2024

Award - Honorary Foreign Fellow, European Union of Geosciences

1986 - 2024

Award - Honorary Foreign Fellow, Geological Society of America

1987 - 2024

Award - Fellow, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

1988

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Tasmania

1990

Award - Jaeger Medal, Australian Academy of Science

1990 - 1992

Career position - Chairman, Professorial Board, University of Tasmania

1990 - 1992

Career position - President, Geological Society of Australia

1991 - 1993

Career position - Chief Science Adviser, Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment and Territories

1991 - 2024

Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)

1993

Award - Royal Society of Tasmania Medal

1993 - 1994

Career position - Member, Australian Space Council

1994

Award - Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of Tasmania

1994 - 1998

Career position - Director, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University

1997 - 2001

Career position - Chairman, National Greenhouse Scientific Advisory Committee

1998

Career position - Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Australian National University

1998

Award - Abraham Gottlieb Werner Medal, Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft

1998 - 2001

Career position - Director, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University

2000

Award - Murchison Medal, Geological Society of London

2001 - ?

Career position - Professor Emeritus, Australian National University

1 Jan 2001

Award - Centenary Medal - for service to Australian society and science in petrology and geochemistry

2001

Award - Humboldt Research Prize, Humboldt Foundation, Germany

2003 - 2024

Award - Member, Russian Academy of Sciences

2004 - 2024

Award - Honorary Fellow, American Geophysical Union

2004 - 2024

Award - Honorary Fellow, Mineralogical Society, London

2006

Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to the earth sciences, particularly in the fields of petrology and geochemistry through research, educational and advisory roles and contributions to public policy formulation

2007

Award - International Gold Medal, Geological Society of Japan

2008 - ?

Career position - Honorary Research Associate, School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University

2008 - 2024

Award - Honorary Fellow, Geological Society of Australia

2011

Award - The International Mineralogical Society Medal

2016

Award - R. M. Johnston Memorial Medal, Royal Society of Tasmania

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Published resources

Books

• Ian Clunies Ross Memorial Foundation, Achievements and challenges for Australian science: Distinguished Lecture Series 1993 (Parkville (Vic.): Ian Clunies Ross Memorial Foundation, 1993), 55 pp. Details
• Nossal, Gus [and others], Achievements and challenges for Australian science (Parkville, Vic.: Ian Clunies Ross Memorial Foundation, 1993), 55 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Anon, 'Obituary: Emeritus Professor David Headley Green AM FAA FRS, 29 February 1936 - 6 September 2024', Newsletter, Australian Academy of Science, 186 (2024). https://www.science.org.au/academy-newsletter/september-2024-186/fellows-update. Details
• Foley, S. F., Venturelli, G., Green, D. H. and Toscani, L., 'The ultrapotassic rocks: characteristics, classification and constraints for petrographic models', Earth science reviews, 24 (1987), 81-134. Details
• Frey, F. A., Green, D. H. and Roy, S. D., 'Integrated models of basalt petrogenesis - a study of quartz tholeiites to olivine melilitites from southeastern Australia utilizing geochemical and experimental petrological data', Journal of petrology, 19 (1978), 463-513. Details
• Green, D. H., 'Geology of the Beaconsfield District, including the Anderson's Creek ultrabasic complex', Records Queen Victoria Museum, new series, 10 (1959), 1-27. Details
• Green, D. H., 'Compositions of basaltic magmas as indicators of conditions of origin: application to oceanic volcanism', Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, series A, 268 (1971), 707-25. Details
• Green, D. H., 'Magmatic activity as the major process in the chemical evolution of the earth's crust and mantle', Tectonophysics, 13 (1972), 47-71. Details
• Green, D. H., 'Orthopyroxene in the lunar interior and constraints on early lunar differentiation', Lunar science, 7 (1976), 226-338. Details
• Green, D. H., 'Alfred Edward Ringwood, 19 April 1930 - 12 November 1993', Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 44 (1998), 351-62, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1998.0023. Details
• Green, D. H. and Ringwood, A. E., 'An experimental investigation of the gabbro to eclogite transformation and its petrological applications', Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 31 (1967), 767-833. Details
• Green, D.H., 'Alfred Edward Ringwood 1930-1993', Historical Records of Australian Science, 12 (2) (1998), 247-266. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9981220247. Details
• Green, D.H., 'Experimental petrology of peridotites, including effects of water and carbon on melting in the Earth's upper mantle', Physics and chemistry of minerals, 42 (2015), 95-122. Details
• Jaques, A. Lynton, Yaxley, Gregory M. and Harley, Simon L., 'David Headley Green 1936 - 2024', Historical Records of Australian Science, 36 (2025), 1-12, https://doi.org/doi:10.1071/HR25006. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60452928. Details
• Mawson Medal and Lecture, Australian Academy of Science, 2025. https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/awards-and-opportunities/mawson-medal-and-lecture. Details
• Jaeger Medal, Australian Academy of Science, 2025, https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/awards-and-opportunities/jaeger-medal. Details
• 'Green, D H (1936-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-609865. Details