Project Deep Carbon is a Future Fellowship awarded to Adriana Dutkiewicz. The project includes postdoctoral research associate Ehsan Farahbakhsh and PhD student Faranak Dalvand.
The deep-sea carbon reservoir through geological time. Despite being by far the largest carbon reservoir on Earth, deep-sea carbonate and its recycling through the Earth system are the most significant missing links in our knowledge of the global carbon cycle. This project aims to track the evolution of the deep-sea carbon reservoir over the last 150 million years by using recently developed spatio-temporal computational and model-data synthesis tools. The project will provide the first rigorous quantification of the distribution and volume of carbon in deep-sea carbonate, and its fluxes between the Earth’s surface and interior. It will advance our understanding of the history and rate of carbon dioxide storage and degassing over geological time, and inform public debate on climate change.
Key DEEP CARBON publications:
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Mather, B.R., Müller, R.D., Dutkiewicz, A. and Zahirovic, S., 2026, Carbon emissions along divergent plate boundaries modulate icehouse-greenhouse climates. Communications Earth & Environment, 7(1), p.48.
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Müller, R.D., Dutkiewicz, A., Farkaš, J., Loehr, S., Merdith, A.S., 2025, Mid-Proterozoic Expansion of Passive Margins and Reduction in Volcanic Outgassing Supported Marine Oxygenation and Eukaryogenesis, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 672, 119683.
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Dalvand, F., Dutkiewicz, A., Wright, N.M. and Müller, R.D., 2025, Indian Ocean carbonate compensation depth since the Late Oligocene. Geo-Marine Letters, 45(4), pp.1-14.
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Dalvand, F., Dutkiewicz, A., Wright, N.M., Mather, B.R. and Müller, D., 2025. Regional carbonate compensation depth variability in the Pacific Ocean since the Oligocene. Frontiers in Earth Science, 13, p.1605906.
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Müller, R.D., Dutkiewicz, A., Zahirovic, S., Merdith, A.S., Scotese, C.R., Mills, B.J., Ilano, L. and Mather, B., 2024. Solid Earth Carbon Degassing and Sequestration Since 1 Billion Years Ago. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(11), p.e2024GC011713
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Dutkiewicz, A. and Müller, R.D., 2024. Submarine volcanism along shallow ridges did not drive Cryogenian cap carbonate formation: REPLY. Geology, 52(8), pp.e579-e579.
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Dutkiewicz, A. and Müller, R.D., 2024. Submarine volcanism along shallow ridges did not drive Cryogenian cap carbonate formation. Geology, 52(5), pp.321-325.
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Dutkiewicz, A., Merdith, A.S., Collins, A.S., Mather, B., Ilano, L., Zahirovic, S. and Müller, R.D., 2024. Duration of Sturtian “Snowball Earth” glaciation linked to exceptionally low mid-ocean ridge outgassing. Geology, 52(4), pp.292-296.
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Dutkiewicz, A., Boulila, S. and Dietmar Müller, R., 2024. Deep-sea hiatus record reveals orbital pacing by 2.4 Myr eccentricity grand cycles. Nature Communications, 15(1), p.1998.
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Dutkiewicz, A., & Müller, R. D. (2022). The history of Cenozoic carbonate flux in the Atlantic Ocean constrained by multiple regional carbonate compensation depth reconstructions. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23, e2022GC010667. https://doi. org/10.1029/2022GC010667.
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Müller, R.D., Mather, B., Dutkiewicz, A., Keller, T., Merdith, A., Gonzales, C.M., Gorczyk, W. and Zahirovic, S., 2022, Evolution of Earth’s tectonic carbon conveyor belt, Nature, 605, 629-639, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04420-x.
