Adriana Dutkiewicz

{{Short description|Australian heatwave expert}}

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| education = Flinders University

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Adriana Dutkiewicz is an Australian sedimentologist at the University of Sydney.{{Cite web |date=2018-07-05 |title=Student Down Under studies impact of underwater currents |url=https://www.jamestownpress.com/articles/student-down-under-studies-impact-of-underwater-currents/ |access-date=2022-04-16 |website=Jamestown Press}} She was awarded the Dorothy Hill award in 2006{{Cite web |title=2006 awardees |url=https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/awards-and-opportunities/honorific-awardees/2021-awardees#hill |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=Australian Academy of Science |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Awards 2006 – EarthByte |url=https://www.earthbyte.org/category/awards/awards-2006/ |access-date=2022-04-16 |language=en-US}} and is an ARC Future Fellow.{{Cite web |title=2006 awardees |url=https://www.science.org.au/past-winners/2006-awardees |access-date=2022-04-16 |website=www.science.org.au |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=NASA |url=https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/directory/dutkiewicz-adriana/index.html}}

Career

Dutkiewicz's research is focussed on sedimentology, and covers a suite of rocks and sediments ranging in age from Archaean to Quaternary. Her research is multi-disciplinary and focusses on global carbon cycles, combining traditional sedimentology with more recent technologies.{{Cite web |title=Staff Profile |url=https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/adriana-dutkiewicz.html |access-date=2022-04-16 |website=The University of Sydney |language=en-AU}}{{Cite web |title=Latest news, opinion, analysis on adriana dutkiewicz, Videos, photos, magazine stories |url=https://www.downtoearth.org.in/tag/adriana-dutkiewicz |access-date=2022-04-16 |website=www.downtoearth.org.in |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last1=Dutkiewicz |first1=Adriana |last2=Müller |first2=Dietmar |date=2022-03-24 |title=Deep-sea hiatuses track the vigor of Cenozoic ocean bottom currents |journal=Geology |volume=50 |issue=6 |pages=710–715 |doi=10.1130/G49810.1 |issn=0091-7613|doi-access=free }}

Dutkiewicz has conducted research in early Precambrian petroleum geology. The Dorothy Hill award described her as "the first to discover oil inclusions preserved in Archaean and early Precambrian rocks and to demonstrate that primordial biomass was sufficiently abundant to generate hydrocarbons". Her research showed that eukaryotes were able to survive extreme climatic events, such as much higher temperatures than previously was known. She has contributed discovery and insights into the early evolution of life as well as conducting research into the exploration of petroleum.

Publications

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  • Dutkiewicz, A. & Müller, R.D., 2022. Deep-sea hiatuses track the vigor of Cenozoic ocean bottom currents. Geology.
  • Dutkiewicz, A. & Müller, R.D., 2021. The carbonate compensation depth in the South Atlantic Ocean since the Late Cretaceous. Geology, v. 49, p. 873-878.{{Cite journal |last1=Dutkiewicz |first1=Adriana |last2=Müller |first2=R. Dietmar |date=2021-04-15 |title=The carbonate compensation depth in the South Atlantic Ocean since the Late Cretaceous |url=https://doi.org/10.1130/G48404.1 |journal=Geology |volume=49 |issue=7 |pages=873–878 |doi=10.1130/G48404.1 |s2cid=234854545 |issn=0091-7613}}
  • Dutkiewicz, A. Judge, A., Müller, R.D., 2020. Environmental predictors of deep-sea polymetallic nodule occurrence in the global ocean. Geology, v. 48, p. 293-297.{{Cite journal |last1=Dutkiewicz |first1=Adriana |last2=Judge |first2=Alexander |last3=Müller |first3=R. Dietmar |date=2020-01-03 |title=Environmental predictors of deep-sea polymetallic nodule occurrence in the global ocean |url=https://doi.org/10.1130/G46836.1 |journal=Geology |volume=48 |issue=3 |pages=293–297 |doi=10.1130/G46836.1 |s2cid=214192633 |issn=0091-7613}}
  • Dutkiewicz, A., Müller, R.D., Cannon, J., Vaughan, S., Zahirovic, S., 2019. Sequestration and subduction of deep-sea carbonate in the global ocean since the Early Cretaceous. Geology, v. 47, p. 91-94.{{Cite journal |last1=Dutkiewicz |first1=Adriana |last2=Müller |first2=R. Dietmar |last3=Cannon |first3=John |last4=Vaughan |first4=Sioned |last5=Zahirovic |first5=Sabin |date=2019-01-01 |title=Sequestration and subduction of deep-sea carbonate in the global ocean since the Early Cretaceous |url=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/47/1/91/567642/Sequestration-and-subduction-of-deepsea-carbonate |journal=Geology |language=en |volume=47 |issue=1 |pages=91–94 |doi=10.1130/G45424.1 |s2cid=134674338 |issn=0091-7613}}

Media

Dutkiewicz has been in the media, reporting on how global geocirculation is related to global temperatures and climate change. The research is involved in carbon and water circulation, and impacts of heat and carbon capture by the ocean. “So far, the ocean has absorbed a quarter of anthropogenic CO2 and over 90 percent of the associated excess heat.”{{Cite web |date=2022-03-25 |title=Global warming speeds up currents in the ocean's abyss |url=https://samacharcentral.com/global-warming-speeds-up-currents-in-the-oceans-abyss/ |access-date=2022-04-16 |website=Samachar Central |language=en-US}}{{dead link|date=February 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Her research has also been published and described in other media{{Cite web |last=Gorey |first=Colm |date=2020-01-14 |title=Mystery of peculiar metal lumps on the ocean floor finally solved |url=https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/deep-sea-metal-lumps-mystery-solved |access-date=2022-04-16 |website=Silicon Republic |language=en}} including the ABC.{{Cite web |date=1998-10-29 |title=Ancient oil could hold clues to Earth's past |url=https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/1998/10/29/13939.htm |access-date=2022-04-16 |website=www.abc.net.au |language=en-AU}}

Awards

  • 2024 Mawson Medal and Lecture from the Australian Academy of Science{{Cite web |title=2024 awardees {{!}} Australian Academy of Science |url=https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/awards-and-opportunities-2/honorific-awardees/2024-awardees |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=www.science.org.au |language=en}}
  • 2006: Dorothy Hill Award from the Australian Academy of Science
  • 2006: CSIRO Medal for Scientific Achievement (group award)
  • 2005: JG Russell Award from the Australian Academy of Science
  • 1991: Western Mining Prize for Excellence in Geoscience (top First Class Honours).

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