Tripti Bhattacharya

Tripti Bhattacharya
Alma materUniversity of Arizona
University of California, Berkeley
Georgetown University
Scientific career
InstitutionsSyracuse University
ThesisCauses and Impacts of Rainfall Variability In Central Mexico on Multiple Timescales (2016)
Doctoral advisorAnthony Roger Byrne, John C.H. Chiang
Other academic advisorsJessica Tierney
Websitetrbhatta.expressions.syr.edu

Tripti Bhattacharya is the Thonis Family Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Syracuse University.[1][2]

Education

Bhattacharya graduated from Georgetown University in 2010 with a B.S. in Environmental Science. She earned her PhD in Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a NSF-GRFP fellow. Her thesis was titled "Causes and Impacts of Rainfall Variability In Central Mexico on Multiple Timescales".[3] Her research won the Denise Gaudreau Award for Excellence in Quaternary Studies, from the American Quaternary Association in 2014.[4]

She trained as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Arizona with Jessica Tierney.[5][6]

Career

Bhattacharya joined Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences as an assistant professor in 2018.[7]

She works on the relationship between ancient regional rainfall and global climate change.[8][9] Her work creates climate models using geochemical and biological traces left by past climates (proxies).[1][10][11] Her research on the Pliocene, a period with similar greenhouse gas levels to those in today's atmosphere, is part of the 2nd Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP2).[2][12][13] She has created a framework to interpret ancient sea surface temperature.[14][15]

Her research on regional rainfall and climate change was cited in the United Nations' 2022 climate change report.[16][17]

Service

Bhattacharya is a member of the American Geophysical Union, and a board member of her specialty group in the Association of American Geographers, and has worked to promote diversity in STEM fields.[18][19]

In 2021, Bhattacharya was one of eight climate researcher at a workshop organized by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). The collaboration was to identify potential future paleoclimate research directions.[20][21]

Awards

Bhattacharya was awarded Syracuse University’s Meredith Teaching Recognition Award in 2021.[22]

In 2023, she was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER grant

In 2023 she was also awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship.[23][24]

References

  1. ^ a b "Tripti Bhattacharya". College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  2. ^ a b Cox, Jay (March 21, 2022). "Piecing Together the Climate Puzzle". Syracuse University Magazine. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  3. ^ Bhattacharya, Tripti (2016). Causes and Impacts of Rainfall Variability In Central Mexico on Multiple Timescales (PhD). Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley. OCLC 1066229174. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  4. ^ "AMQUA - Denise Gaudreau Award for Excellence in Quaternary Research". American Quaternary Association. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  5. ^ "Tierney Research Team". Dr. Tierney | Paleoclimatology. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  6. ^ "Dr. Tripti Bhattacharya - Geosciences". UAPA. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  7. ^ Homan Rodoski, Kelly (6 September 2018). "Michael '72 and Susan Thonis Establish Second Endowed Professorship of Earth Sciences". Syracuse University News. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  8. ^ Mace, Mikayla (September 10, 2018). "Ocean muck used by UA researchers to study ancient monsoons, help improve forecasting". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  9. ^ Bhattacharya, Tripti; Byrne, Roger; Böhnel, Harald; Wogau, Kurt; Kienel, Ulrike; Ingram, B. Lynn; Zimmerman, Susan (10 February 2015). "Cultural implications of late Holocene climate change in the Cuenca Oriental, Mexico". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (6): 1693–1698. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112.1693B. doi:10.1073/pnas.1405653112. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 4330754. PMID 25624470.
  10. ^ Tierney, Jessica E.; Poulsen, Christopher J.; Montañez, Isabel P.; Bhattacharya, Tripti; Feng, Ran; Ford, Heather L.; Hönisch, Bärbel; Inglis, Gordon N.; Petersen, Sierra V.; Sagoo, Navjit; Tabor, Clay R.; Thirumalai, Kaustubh; Zhu, Jiang; Burls, Natalie J.; Foster, Gavin L.; Goddéris, Yves; Huber, Brian T.; Ivany, Linda C.; Kirtland Turner, Sandra; Lunt, Daniel J.; McElwain, Jennifer C.; Mills, Benjamin J. W.; Otto-Bliesner, Bette L.; Ridgwell, Andy; Zhang, Yi Ge (6 November 2020). "Past climates inform our future". Science. 370 (6517): eaay3701. doi:10.1126/science.aay3701. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 33154110. S2CID 226254943.
  11. ^ Enslin, Robert; Stolte, Daniel (September 5, 2018). "Syracuse Professor Looks to Geologic Past to Predict Climate's Future". College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  12. ^ Hancock, Elaina (14 March 2022). "Ice Sheet Retreat and Forest Expansion Turned Ancient Subtropical Drylands into Oases". UConn Today. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  13. ^ Feng, Ran; Bhattacharya, Tripti; Otto-Bliesner, Bette L.; Brady, Esther C.; Haywood, Alan M.; Tindall, Julia C.; Hunter, Stephen J.; Abe-Ouchi, Ayako; Chan, Wing-Le; Kageyama, Masa; Contoux, Camille; Guo, Chuncheng; Li, Xiangyu; Lohmann, Gerrit; Stepanek, Christian; Tan, Ning; Zhang, Qiong; Zhang, Zhongshi; Han, Zixuan; Williams, Charles J. R.; Lunt, Daniel J.; Dowsett, Harry J.; Chandan, Deepak; Peltier, W. Richard (14 March 2022). "Past terrestrial hydroclimate sensitivity controlled by Earth system feedbacks". Nature Communications. 13 (1): 1306. Bibcode:2022NatCo..13.1306F. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28814-7. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 8921287. PMID 35288559. S2CID 247451679.
  14. ^ Bernardi, Dan (13 August 2020). "A&S Researchers Lay the Groundwork to Reconstruct Global Climate through Earth's History". Syracuse University News. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  15. ^ Judd, Emily J.; Bhattacharya, Tripti; Ivany, Linda C. (16 August 2020). "A Dynamical Framework for Interpreting Ancient Sea Surface Temperatures". Geophysical Research Letters. 47 (15). Bibcode:2020GeoRL..4789044J. doi:10.1029/2020GL089044. ISSN 0094-8276. S2CID 225438422.
  16. ^ Willis, Scott (9 August 2021). "UN Climate Change Report Includes Temperature And Rainfall Research From SU Scientists". WAER. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  17. ^ Chappell, Bill (3 September 2021). "Why Ida Hit The Northeast So Hard, 1,000 Miles Away From Its Landfall". NPR. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  18. ^ Bhattacharya, Tripti (11 February 2020). "Opinion: On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the problem of gender diversity in STEM is clear". Newsweek. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  19. ^ Lovell, Daryl (10 February 2020). "Earth Sciences Professor Pushes For More Women At the Science, Technology Table". Syracuse University News. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  20. ^ Silvern, Rachel; Skrivanek, Alexandra, eds. (19 November 2021). Identifying New Community-Driven Science Themes for NSF's Support of Paleoclimate Research: Proceedings of a Workshop (Report). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi:10.17226/26377. ISBN 978-0-309-27184-4. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  21. ^ Bernardi, Dan (November 24, 2021). "EES Professor Part of Expert Committee Helping to Shape the Future of Paleoclimate Research". College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  22. ^ Homan Rodoski, Kelly (7 May 2021). "Nine Faculty Members Recognized With Meredith Teaching Recognition Awards". Syracuse University News. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  23. ^ "Announcing the 2023 Sloan Research Fellows" (PDF). Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Press release). New York, NY. 15 February 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  24. ^ Stirling, Diane (15 February 2023). "Bhattacharya, Patteson Win Sloan Research Fellowships". Syracuse University News. Retrieved 17 February 2023.