Dr Adriana Dutkiewicz, PhD

QEII Research Fellow

Madsen Building (F09), Rm 431
Phone: +61 2 9351 5192
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Adriana's current research interest is focused on Precambrian oil and its role in the formation of the world.s largest hydrothermal ore deposits. The research exploits recently discovered early Precambrian oil-bearing fluid inclusions and their geochemical compositions, including biomarkers, to constrain hydrocarbon-ore fluid interactions, the pressure-temperature conditions under which they co-exist, the diversity of the primordial biosphere and the nature of life.s earliest habitats. She is also interested in the development of novel techniques to solve some of the outstanding problems in Earth science such as the composition of the early biosphere and direct dating of oil deposits.

• Dutkiewicz, A., Volk, H., Ridley, J., and George, S.C. (in review, submitted October 2005). Precambrian oil in the Roper Superbasin: A Fluid Inclusion Perspective. In: Proceedings of the Central Australian Basins Symposium (eds. T. Munson, G. Ambrose, and P. Ferenczi), NT Dept. of Mines, Alice Springs.
• Dutkiewicz, A., Volk, H., George, S.C., Ridley, J. and Buick, R., 2006. Biomarkers sealed in oil-bearing fluid inclusions trapped before the Great Oxidation Event. Geology, v. 34, p. 437-440.
• Dutkiewicz, A., Volk, H., George, S.C., Ridley, J., Mossman, D. and Buick, R., 2006. Oil and its biomarkers trapped inside fluid inclusions ca. 2.45.2.0 Ga. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, A153.
• Dutkiewicz, A., Volk, H., Ridley, J. and George, S.C., 2004. Geochemistry of oil in fluid inclusions in a Middle Proterozoic igneous intrusion: implications for the source of hydrocarbons in crystalline rocks. Organic Geochemistry, v. 35, p. 937-957.
• Dutkiewicz, A., Volk, H., Ridley, J., George, S., 2003. Biomarkers, brines and oil in the Mesoproterozoic, Roper Superbasin, Australia. Geology, v. 31, p. 981-984.
• Dutkiewicz, A., Ridley, J. and Buick, R., 2003. Oil-bearing CO2-CH4-H2O fluid inclusions: oil survival since the Palaeoproterozoic after high temperature entrapment. Chemical Geology, v. 194, p. 51-79.
• Dutkiewicz, A. and Ridley, J., 2003. Post-entrapment movement of fluid into inclusions in barite: the importance of sample preparation and inclusion recognition in hydrocarbon migration studies. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 73, p. 171-176.
• Dutkiewicz, A., Herczeg, A.L. and Dighton, J.C., 2000. Past changes to isotopic and solute balances in a continental playa: clues from stable isotopes of lacustrine carbonates. Chemical Geology, v. 165, p. 309-329.
• Dutkiewicz, A., Rasmussen, B. and Buick, R., 1998. Oil preserved in fluid inclusions in Archaean sandstones. Nature, v. 395, p. 885-888.
• Dutkiewicz, A. and Prescott, J.R., 1997. Thermoluminescence ages and palaeoclimate from the Lake Malata - Lake Greenly complex, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 16, p. 367-385.
• Dutkiewicz, A. and von der Borch, C.C., 1995. Lake Greenly, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia: sedimentologic, palaeoclimatic and palaeohydrologic cycles. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 113, p. 43-56.

• 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.
• 1997: Ph.D. thesis selected for special commendation by Flinders University.
• 1992-1996: Australian Postgraduate Research Award (APRA).
• 1991: The Western Mining Prize for Excellence in Geoscience (top First Class Honours).

• 2005-2009: ARC Discovery Grant: Dutkiewicz, A., George, S.C., Volk, H.H. .Biosphere, hydrocarbon and ore fluid interactions in the early Precambrian. (includes QEII Fellowship).
• 2006: Linkage International ARC Grant: Rey, P.F., Philippot, P., Dutkiewicz, A., Marshall, C.P. and van Kranendonk, M.J. "Chemistry of the Archaean Ocean and its Impact on Earth's Early Atmosphere and Ecosystems".

• Mesoproterozoic Roper Superbasin, Australia . regional-scale oil migration, timing of fluid entrapment, petrography, implications for exploration.
• Precambrian Bitumen Nodules . timing of formation, mode of formation, geochemistry, implications for Precambrian biosphere/environment.

• GEOS 3103/3803 - Environmental & Sedimentary Geology