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Debjani Ghatak, PhD

Title/s:  Lecturer

Specialty Area: Hydro-Climatology

Office #:  BVM Hall 212

Phone: 773-508-3446 (Ext.: 83446)

Email:

Additional Profile Information

Teaching Certificate:

  • 'HEART' (Hopkins Engineering Applications & Research Tutorials) fellow
  • Teachers’ training workshop at the Johns Hopkins Teaching Institute, 2017

Reviewer:  

  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS), Environmental Research Letters (ERL), Journal of Geophysical Research, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology (JAMC), Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters.

Proposal Review:                  

  • NASA Grant Review Panel Member, Fall 2021 
  • NASA Grant Review Panel Member, Fall 2017                                                                            
  • NSF Grant Review Panel Member, Fall 2017

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)
  • Master of Science (MS), Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Graduate Center of the City University of New
  • York (CUNY) Master of Science (M.Sc.), Geography, University of Calcutta (India)

Professional Employment

Work Experience:

  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
  • Clinical Data Analyst, Abbvie
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
  • Post-Doctoral Associate, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Other Relevant Work Experience:

  • New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)
  • The Institute for Sustainable Cities City University of New York

Research Interests

  • Arctic Climate
  • Interaction between cryosphere and atmosphere
  • Northern Hemisphere Land-surface snow variability
  • Cryospheric teleconnection
  • Environmental Issues of South Asia
  • High Elevation Climate Change
  • Hydro-climatic issues of Chicago and surrounding area

Professional & Community Affiliations

  • Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN).
  • Association of American Geographers (AAG).
  • Association of American Geophysical Union (AGU).
  • American Meteorological Society (AMS)
  • European Geosciences Union (EGU)

Awards

  • Grant for involving undergraduates in research from the College of Geosciences “EXPANDING HIGH IMPACT EXPERIENCES IN THE GEOSCIENCES”, Spring 2022.
  • World Climate Research Programme Open Science Conference best poster award, Denver CO, 2011.
  • UCAR 2013 PACE fellowship finalist.
  • Mina S. Rees Graduate Scholarship in Sciences and Mathematics from Hunter College, City University of New York, 2009
  • Graduate Student Research Grant Awarded from The Graduate Center, CUNY , 2008
  • Provost Fellowship from City University of New York
  • National Scholarship (India) in 2001, 1998, 1996

Selected Publications

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:

Saha, K., D. Ghatak and N. S. S. Muralee. (2022) Impact of Plantation Induced Forest Degradation on the Outbreak of Emerging Infectious Diseases-Wayanad District, Kerala, India. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(12):7036. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19127036. PMID: 35742291; PMCID: PMC9222524.

Ghatak, , B Zaitchik, S Kumar, M Matin, B Bajracharya, C Hain and M Anderson, (2018) Influence of Precipitation Forcing Uncertainty on Hydrological Simulations with the NASA South Asia Land Data Assimilation System, Hydrology, 5(4), 57; https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology5040057

Ghatak, D. and B. Zaitchik (2017), The role of local heating in the 2015 Indian Heat Wave. Nature Scientific Reports, 7: 7707, DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-07956-5.

Ghatak, D., Sinsky and J. Miller (2014), Role of Snow-Albedo Feedback in Higher Elevation Warming over the Himalayas, Tibetan Plateau and Central Asia. Environmental Research Letters, 9 114008 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/11/114008.

Ghatak, D., and J. Miller (2013), Implications for Arctic amplification of changes in the strength of the water vapor feedback, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 7569–7578, doi:1002/jgrd.50578. 

Ghatak, D., G. Gong, A. Frei, (2010): North American Temperature, Snowfall, and Snow-Depth Response to Winter Climate Modes. J. Climate, 23:9, 2320-2332

Ghatak, D., C. Deser, A. Frei, G. Gong, A. Phillips, D. Robinson, and J. Stroeve, (2012): Simulated Siberian Snow Cover Response to Observed Arctic Sea Ice Loss, 1979-2008. Geophys. Res., 117, D23, doi:10.1029/2012JD018047, 2012.

Ghatak, D., A. Frei, G. Gong, J. Stroeve, D. Robinson,(2010): On the emergence of an Arctic amplification signal in terrestrial Arctic snow extent, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D24105, doi:10.1029/2010JD014007.

BOOK CHAPTER:

James R. Miller, Imtiaz Rangwala, Debjani Ghatak (2012), Potential Climate and Hydrological Changes in the Aral Sea Region, in Michael R. Edelstein, Astrid Cerny, Abror Gadaev (ed.) Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea and its Lessons for Sustainability (Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Volume 20), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, doi: 10.1108/S0196-1152(2012)0000020013, pp.53-64.