Gas & Energy Transition Research Centre
Professor David Close
Industry Professor
Biography
Professor David Close is an Industry Professor at The University of Queensland's Gas & Energy Transition Research Centre.
David has extensive experience in private sector, senior leadership roles leading the delivery of subsurface, stakeholder engagement, operations, and commercial workstreams. He has volunteered widely on professional association boards, editorial boards, and in conference and workshop organising committees due to a strong commitment to collaboration and science communication, which have been critical aspects of David’s professional career and led him to his current role in academia.
David has extensive applied and research experience in geology, geophysics, tectonics, basins, oceans and climate interactions; and is developing research expertise in energy and climate policy and energy systems.
David holds a D.Phil. in Marine Geophysics from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a B.Sc. (Hons) from the University of Tasmania.
Highlighted publications
Journal Articles
Close, D., and Wilson, A., 2024. An Improved Depositional Model for the Organic Rich Shales of the Amungee Member of the Velkerri Formation in the Beetaloo Sub-basin, Northern Territory, Australia. CABS IV Special Publication Volume 2, 59-68. doi.org/10.36404/ZGDW5788
Faiz, M., Zoitsas, A., Altmann, C., Close, D., 2018. Carbon Isotope Fractionation in Coal and Marine Source Rocks and Implications for Exploration. December 2018, ASEG Extended Abstracts.
Close, D., 2010. Slope and fan deposition in deep-water turbidite systems, East Antarctica. Marine Geology, 274, pp 21–31.
Close, D. I., Watts, A. B., and Stagg, H., 2009. A marine geophysical study of the Wilkes Land rifted continental margin, Antarctica. Geophysical Journal International, 177, pp 430–450.
Close, D. I., Roach, M. J., and Lewis, R. G., 2001, Electrical properties of porphyry mineralisation at the Cadia Ridgeway gold-copper deposit, NSW – implications for exploration. Australian Society of Exploration Geophysics, 32 (3&4), pp 197-202.
Abstracts
David Close, Randall Taylor, Sebastian Nixon; A case study in quantitative interpretation ambiguity, lambda-mu-rho, and rock-physics modeling in the Otway Basin, Australia. The Leading Edge 2016;; 35 (1): 43–50. doi: https://doi.org/10.1190/tle35010043.1