David Ernest Brown is a native Nova Scotian born and raised in Halifax, graduating from Dalhousie University with a Bachelor of Sciences (Honours) degree in Geology in 1979. He joined the petroleum industry working first with Amoco in Calgary, a local consulting firm in Halifax, and later for nine years as an explorationist with Mobil Oil Canada in Calgary and Toronto focusing on offshore eastern Canada and arctic frontier basins. Since 1990, David has been employed with the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board in Halifax and is currently Senior Advisor – Geology with responsibilities for conducting research on specific geological subjects, hydrocarbon resource assessment, monitoring and advising on the geological aspects of all offshore exploration and development activities, and scientific liaison with other government, academic and regulatory agencies.

David has authored, edited and contributed to a number of technical papers, volumes, publications and field guides on the geology of conjugate margins basins and has a keen interest in Atlantic margin prerift and early synrift basin development and petroleum systems. He was the originator of the highly regarded Conjugate Margins Conference series and co-chair of first meeting in Halifax in 2008 and steering committees of subsequent meetings in Lisbon, Dublin and St. John’s. He is a co-chair of the GCS-SEPM’s Perkin’s 2015 Research Conference on “Petroleum Systems in ‘Rift’ Basins” to be held in Houston in December. He is a member of several geological societies including the AAPG, CSPG, GAC, PESGB, SPE and AGS, and currently serves as a delegate for the Canada Section of the AAPG HoD.