Tara Djokic

Tara Djokic is a geologist currently based in the Palaeontology Department of the Australian Museum Research Institute where she is investigating the fossilisation processes of an 11-16 million-year-old rainforest-lake deposit from central New South Wales. She gained a PhD from UNSW in 2019, which focussed on characterising depositional environments in the 3.5-billion-year-old Dresser Formation in the Pilbara host to some of earths earliest evidence for life (stromatolites). Tara is dedicated to science education and communication, having presented at TEDx Sydney 2019, performing at the Sydney Comedy Festival 2023, and has previously worked as an Education Officer at ANSTO.