Dr Adriana Dutkiewicz is an innovative geologist who has pioneered the use of vast amounts of deep-sea drilling data collected over the last 50 years to advance our understanding of deep-sea sedimentation and the long-term carbon cycle. Her digital global map of deep-sea sediments is the first of its kind. The detailed tapestry of sediments it portrays represents a quantum leap from hand-drawn maps, enabling new and quantitative research directions. In other advances, she and her team linked deep-sea sediments and plate tectonics to compute fluctuations in marine carbon storage, provided insights into the formation of manganese nodules, and linked discontinuities in the geological record to bottom current intensity. Dr Dutkiewicz’s research connects traditional sedimentology with big data analysis and emerging machine learning methods, playing a transformative role in this field. In addition, she was the first to discover Archaean and early Proterozoic oil preserved within fluid inclusions, challenging long-held ideas about the temperature limits of hydrocarbon survival and the composition of the early biosphere.
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