Adriana Dutkiewicz

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Adriana Dutkiewicz is an Australian sedimentologist at the University of Sydney. She won the Dorothy Hill Award in 2006 and is an ARC Future Fellow. Her research covers sedimentology across rocks and sediments from the Archaean to the Quaternary. It is multidisciplinary and combines traditional sedimentology with new technologies to study global carbon cycles.

She has explored petroleum geology in the very early Earth. The Dorothy Hill Award noted that she was the first to find oil inclusions in Archaean and early Precambrian rocks and to show that primordial biomass could generate hydrocarbons. Her work also helps explain how eukaryotes survived extreme climates and contributed to our understanding of the early evolution of life and petroleum exploration.

Dutkiewicz has spoken in the media about how global ocean circulation relates to temperatures and climate change. Her research looks at carbon and water cycles in the oceans and how heat and carbon capture affect them. Scientists say the ocean has absorbed about a quarter of human-made CO2 and most of the extra heat. Her findings have been reported by the ABC.