Origins of petroleum deposits investigated through Australian Research Council Fellowship

Associate Professor Alan Collins from the Institute for Mineral and Energy Resources and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, is one of nine Adelaide University researchers to be awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. He's part of a record-breaking year for the University as one of nine researchers sharing in $6.8 million - 65% of the total funding awarded to South Australian researchers.

The fellowship acknowledges Alan's talents as a researcher and is recognition of his work in a field of critical national importance. His research will examine the geography of Australia between 850 and 500 million years ago for the first time - a period of major climatic extremes. It will provide new knowledge on the origin of multi-cellular life and critically, on the accumulation of the first major petroleum deposits.