Carlota Escutia Dotti (born 1959) is a Spanish geologist, best known for her work on the geologic evolution of Antarctica and the global role of the Antarctic ice cap.
[2] Escutia's research focuses on seismic stratigraphy and sedimentology of clastic continental margins in high and low latitudes with the following themes: global environmental and paleoclimatic change, geohazards, and resource assessment.
[3][4] She has made important contributions to understanding how the Antarctic ice sheet has grown and melted during the last 35 million years,[5] also providing crucial information on the sedimentological record of climate change in Antarctica.
[1] She was Coordinator of the ANTOSTRAT (Antarctic Acoustic Offshore Stratigraphy) Project Land Regional Working Group, from 1995 to 2002,[9] and European co-chief scientist of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 318: Ice Sheet Evolution, collecting deep-sea cores off Wilkes Land in Antarctica from 2008–2013,[10][11] she has contributed significantly to understanding the geologic evolution of Antarctica[6] and the role of the Antarctic ice cap in our world.
[18] At the 2014 Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Open Science Conference she was invited to give a plenary lecture on Deciphering past climate and ice sheet dynamics from sedimentary records.