AtreyeeBhattacharya

  • Visiting Reseacher
  • CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING
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Education

Ph.D. Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
M.Sc. Applied Geosciences, Indian Institute of Technology
B.Sc. Geology, Presidency College

Regional and Thematic Interests

South Asia/India
Climate studies
Environmental Studies

Profile

Atreyee Bhattacharya is a climate scientist who applies a longue duree (long-term) approach to study the nature, causes and impacts of climate variability in semi-arid societies, especially in the global south. To conduct this research, she analyzes geochemical properties of lake sediments and corals to reconstruct regional climate and environmental history and compare the reconstructions with records of socioeconomic and demographic information extracted from historical texts. Since the goal of her work is to inform policy, planning and adaptation with regard to the nature, causes and impacts of climate variability so as to make these practices more sustainable in the medium and long term, Bhattacharya works in a multi-disciplinary, community-engaged framework comprised of researchers, practitioners and members of communities who are at the forefront of climate risks.

Bhattacharya teaches undergraduate courses using a research centric approach calledCURE, participate in outreach activities aimed at climate literacy and climate adaptation. In addition to her 鶹Ѱaffiliations, she also holds an adjunct faculty position at the School of Human studies at the Indraprastha Institution of Information Technology (IIIT), New Delhi.

Selected Publications

R. Ray., *A, Bhattacharya.,Arora, G., Bajaj, K., Horton, K., Chen, Shi and Bazaz, A. “Quantifying rain failure inQuantifying ‘rain failure’ in semi-arid societies: lessons from a 21

Bhattacharya, A., Ray, R., Arora, G., Chakraborty, S and Bajaj, K. “Alongue dureeapproach in assessing climate risks: A 200-year record from semi-arid regions of peninsular India. Colorado WASH Virtual symposium (2021).Accepted.

Bajaj, K., Bazaz, A., S. Chakraborty andBhattacharya, A. “Regional paleoclimate and environmental database: Where paleodata socioeconomic-political decision making.” International Virtual conference on ‘Earth’s changing climate: Past, present and future (2020).Submitted.

Bajaj, K.,Bhattacharya, A., Chakraborty, S., Bazaz, A., B. Rajagopalan and E. Vance. “A database of paleo climate and environment: A regional initiative for science and society.” American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall meeting (2020).Accepted.

Ray, R.,Bhattacharya, A., Bazaz, A., Arora, G. and Mitra, W. “Climate Adaptation: What worked and what did not. A 200-year record of the 18thand 19thcentury British administrative documents pertaining to semi-arid regions of peninsular India.” American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall meeting (2020).Paper no. GC035-06.

Ray, R.,Bhattacharya, A., and Bazaz, A. “The importance of 18th-19thcentury British Institutional Archival documents in climatic studies.” International Conference on Paleoclimate Changes (IPCP), Virtual Platform (2020).

Bhattacharya, A., Ray, R., Arora, G., and Mitra, W. “Towards a new framework to characterize a new framework for understanding long term community resilience to climate variability: A pilot study focusing on 19th-20thcentury historical evolution of communities in semi-arid regions of western India.” Past Global Changes (PAGES) Past Socio-environmental Systems Meeting, Chile (2020).In-review.

Ray, R. andBhattacharya, A.“Assessing the impacts of climate variability-a study of institutional archival data spanning 1700-1947 (British Colonial Period) pertaining to semi-arid tracts of peninsular India.”European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, paper no. 2020-5350. (2020)

Bhattacharya, A.,Bennett, A., Marchitto, T. and Leithold, E. “Coarse-grained mineral dust deposition records in alpine lakes suggest more frequent tornadoes during warmer intervals of the late Holocene period in arid and semi-arid tracts of North America.”European Geophysical Union (EGU)General Assembly, Vienna, paper no. 2020-190.(2020)

8-year record of climate impacts in colonial-era peninsular India.”Under review,Communications Earth and Environment, Nature.

Semazzi, F., Liu, B., Xie, L., Smith, K., Angus, M., Gudoshava, M., Argent, R.,Sun, X., Liess, S., andBhattacharya, A. “Decadal variability of Eastern African Monsoon.” CLIVAR Exchanges Special Issue on Monsoons: Advancing understanding of monsoon variability and improving predictions.”Guest-editors: Paul Dirmeyer and Andy Turner. (2015)

Mahowald, N. M., Kloster, S., Engelstaedter, S., Moore, J. K., Mukhopadhyay, S. McConnell, J. R., Albani, S., Doney, S. C.,Bhattacharya, A., Curran, M. A. J., Flanner, M. G., Hoffman, F. M., Lawrence, D. M., Lindsay, K., Mayewski, P. A., Neff, L., Rothenberg, D., Thomas, E., Thornton, P. E., Zender, C. S. “Observed 20th century desertdustvariability: impact on climate and biogeochemistry.” Atmospheric chemistry and Physics, Vol. 10, 22,10875-10893.(2010)

Bhattacharya, A.and Mukhopadhyay, S. “A high resolution record of 18th-20thcentury dust emission rates from the Sahara-Sahel region of Africa.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 73, 13,A118-A118.(2010)

Mukhopadhyay, S. andBhattacharya, A. “Dust Emission from the Sahara-Sahel region over the past 150 years.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 72, 12,A661-A661.(2009)