Dr Nicole Dobrzinski

Biography/ Background

Currently I work with the Cooperation Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) at the University of Adelaide and undertake research in the field of carbon dioxide geological storage. My PhD work was about reconstructing palaeoclimate conditions, more precisely I worked on Neoproterozoic low-latitude sedimentary successions on the Yangtze Platform in South China looking for sedimentological and geochemical evidence for an abrupt climate change. After my PhD I was employed by PanTerra Geoconsultants B.V., a Netherlands based company providing geoservices to the international oil and gas industry. In this position I worked on integrated reservoir studies, using sedimentological and petrographic data to establish sedimentological, diagenetic and stratigraphical controls on reservoir quality.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Geology, Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany - Sinian low-latitude glacial deposits on the Yangtze Platform, South China: Sedimentological and geochemical evidence for Neoproterozoic climate change and a test of the “snowball Earth” hypothesis.
• Degree in Geology, Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany. - Diploma thesis: Petrography and geochemistry of Palaeozoic sediments in South Chile between 48°S and 51°S.

Research Interests

• Geological storage of CO₂
• Reservoir quality characterization: petrographic and sedimentological studies
• Palaeoclimate reconstruction

Publications

Dobrzinski, N. & Bahlburg, H. (2007): Sedimentology and environmental significance of the Cryogenian successions of the Yangtze platform, South China block.- Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 254, 100-122; doi:10.1016/j.palaeo. 2007.03.04

Dobrzinski, N., Bahlburg, H., Strauss, H., Zhang, Q., 2004. Geochemical climate proxies applied to the Neoproterozoic glacial succession on the Yangtze Platform, South China. - In: The extreme Proterozoic: Geology, Geochemistry and Climate (eds. Jenkins, G.S., McMenamin, M.A.S., McKay, C.P., Sohl, L.).- AGU monograph series, 146, 13-32.

Dobrzinski, N., Bahlburg, H., Strauss, H., 2003. Geochemistry of Sinian tillites from Hunan Province, South China - A test of the Snowball Earth hypothesis, Progress in Natural Science, 13 (11), 867-874.

Zhang, Q.R., Chu, X. Bahlburg, H., Feng, L., Dobrzinski, N., Zhang, T., 2003. Stratigraphic architecture of the Neoproterozoic glacial rocks in the “Xiang-Qian-Gui” region of the central Yangtze Block, South China,  Progress in Natural Science, 13 (10).

 

 

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 16 Jun 2009