Saugata Datta
PhD: Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Canada: 2001
Mellon-Barnard & Columbia Earth Institute Fellow, Columbia University, New York: 2004
CURRENT NEWS IN THE LAB
Welcome to the Datta Lab!
We are hydrogeologists and low temperature geochemists working on environmental sustainability
Professor, Kansas State University
Chemical Hydrogeology and Environmental Geochemistry
Current: Visiting Chair: Michel T Halbouty Visiting Chair at Texas A and M University, 2017-2018
Email: sdatta1511@exchange.tamu.edu
104 Thompson Hall, Manhattan, Kansas, 66506
Phn: (785) 532-6724
Fax: (785) 532-5159
Email: sdatta@ksu.edu
Prior Appointments:
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences,
Georgia College & State University, Georgia (2004-2008)
Reader, University of Calcutta
Department of Geology, India (2005-2006)
Congratulations Erik, Michelle, Ian, Colleen - Defended Masters May, Nov 2017
In Sabbatical 2017-2018: Michel T Halbouty Visiting Chair at Texas A and M - Geology and Geophysics
Website: https://geogeo.tamu.edu/people/faculty/dattasaugata
Opportunity Post Doctoral Fellow (Hiring from 2018 August). Advertisement as Follows. [Advertisement_PostDoctoralFellow.pdf]
Recent Presentations from the Group
Goldschmidt Conference presentations 2013 - Golam Kibria / Saugata Datta [Florence, Italy] (click for abstracts)
GSA presentations 2013 - Brent Campbell, Michael Vega, Austin Krehel, Shovon Barua, Golam Kibria [Denver, CO]
AGU presentations 2013 - Brent Campbell, Golam Kibria [San Francisco, CA]
ICOBTE presentation 2013 - Chad Hobson [Athens, Georgia] (scroll down on PDF abstracts)
MEDGEO presentation 2013 - Austin Krehel [Arlington, VA]
Goldschmidt Conference 2014 - Golam Kibria, Shovon Barua, Austin Krehel, Saugata Datta, Chad Hobson [Sacramento, CA]
Arsenic Congress 2014 - Golam Kibria, Saugata Datta [Buenos Aires, Argentina]
GSA 2014 - Austin Krehel, Brent Campbell, Saugata Datta, Cooper Yerby [Vancouver, Canada]
Midwest Groundwater Conference 2014 - Sam Stone (Lawrence-University of Kansas)
AGU presentations 2014 - Cooper Yerby and Shovon Barua [San Francisco, CA]
South Central GSA 2014 - Chance Reece [Stillwater, Oklahoma]
Natural Resource and Environmental Sciences - Metals and Metalloids in Environment 2015 - Saugata Datta [KState]
International Applied Geochemistry Symposium 2015 - Saugata Datta [Tucson Arizona]
Kansas Citizens of Science-KSU Chapter Sigma Xi 2015- Saugata Datta [Manhattan, KS]
Goldschmidt Conference 2015- Saugata Datta, Jamie Harrington, Michael Vega, Ningfang Yang
GSA 2015 - Saugata Datta, Peter Knappett, Numa Sosa, Katie Garth
AGU 2015 - Saugata Datta, Numa Sosa
Goldschmidt 2016 - MIchelle Berube, Kaho Nakoyama
EGU 2016 - Peter Knappett
Arsenic 2016 Congress - Saugata Datta
GSA 2016 - 15 abstracts [Denver]
AGU 2016 - 4 abstracts - Kulkarni, Ryan, Sosa and Vero ; Session Convenor -B019 [San Francisco]
Goldschmidt 2017- 2 abstracts - Andree and Sosa [Paris]
MEDGEO 2017 - 1 abstract -Datta and Sosa [Moscow]
GSA 2017 - Patton, Galinskaya, Vaughn, Shepherd, Datta and Mondal, Jewell, Knappett [Seattle]
AGU 2017- Andree, Berube, Majumder, Johannesson [New Orleans]
SouthCentral and North Central GSA 2018 - Shepherd, Gura [Little Rock, 12-13 Mar, ’18; Ames, Iowa, 16-17 Apr ’18]
Goldschmidt Conference 2018 - Shepherd, Majumder [Boston, Aug 2018]
ASABE 2018 - Coming Soon [Detroit, July 30’18]
Arsenic Congress 2018- Beijing, Keynote Address [Beijing, July 2018]
Recent News published from the Lab
News KState Today - NASA - BRAILLE Funding News - (coming soon, Mar 2018)
Departmental NewsLetter Sep 2017 [Highlights of Datta Lab research]
Manganese in Drinking Waters -- Story on K-State Today -Frontiers Paper Cited, June 2017
Manhattan Mercury Releases Manganese Story, June 27 2017
Vogue Magazine- Conditions of Tap Waters in US and Fashion and Health. Feb 2016. Story as Published on Vogue Online
Kansas State University - RockStarsSpread.pdf SEEK MAGAZINE WINTER 2016
KTVL News 10, Lava Bed National Monument: May 2015. Story 1 and Story 2 : Life on Mars and Lava Beds on Earth
Tungsten Story ; Tungsten-Chemical Geology, KState, Oct 2013 ; The Conversation, UK, Nov 2013; Science Daily News
Manganese in Airborne Particulate Matter Story
NSF Highlights June 2013; NSF Hydrology News; Nature News
Arsenic and Pond Story ; Science Daily- Arsenic and Women; Zee News
Nitrate Study at KState, Aug 2013 ; Nitrate Story by Environmental Monitor, Sep 2013
NewsWise Nitrate Story Followup Spring 2014
Undergraduate Student Mike Vega in news, Spring 2015
High School Student in news, Spring 2015. Cooper Yerby.pdf
Affiliations in University
Urban Water Institute - Faculty Advisory Council; Urban Water Institute Research
Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences Secondary Major- ReElected to Governing Board. May 2017, NRES Gov Board
Sigma Xi, President-Elect 2017, President 2018, Executive Board, Kansas State University (KState Chapter of Sigma Xi)
Affiliation with Geological Society of America
Chair - Division of Geology and Health, Geological Society of America 2017-2019
AWARDS OF GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
CURRENT/Past FUNDED RESEARCH
EAR - 1014971: Collaborative Research: Chemical Hydrogeologic Investigations of Tungsten: Field, Laboratory, and Modeling Studies of an Emerging Environmental Contaminant. Project location: Kansas State University, National Science Foundation, Hydrologic Sciences Program
NASA PSTAR [Planetary Science and Technology Through Analog Research] 16-PSTAR16_2_0015: Biologic and Resource Analog Investigations in Low Light Environments (BRAILLE) NNH16ZDA001N- 3 year Proposal Funded 2017 (August)-2020, Collaboration with NASA AMES, Northwestern U, Desert Research Institute, New Mex Tech--More news coming soon!
T3 TAMU Grant: Using Pb Isotopes in Delineating Sources of Childrens Blood Pb: Collaborators from Geology and Geophysics and Public Health at TAMU - Mar 2018
DE-FE0002056: Modeling Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in Saline Aquifer & Depleted Oil Reservoir, Project Location: Kansas State University, U.S. DOE / NETL
DE-FE0002056: Supplementary: Modeling Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in Saline Aquifer & Depleted Oil Reservoir-Western Annex, Project Location: Kansas State University, U.S. DOE / NETL
DE-FE0006821: Small Scale Field Test Demonstrating CO2 Sequestration, Project Location: Kansas State University, U.S. DOE / NETL- Masters Project for two years long : starting Jan-Feb 2015
DE-FE0004566: Prototyping and testing a new volumetric curvature tool to model reservoir compartments and leakage pathways in Arbuckle saline aquifer to reduce uncertainty in CO2 storage and permanence, U.S. DOE / NETL
Pariette Wetlands Salinity / Selenium Study: Project Location: Kansas State University, Bureau of Land Management, Utah
Forest Shepherd - Arts and Science Travel Award-Mexico, 2017
Michelle Berube, Ian Andree: successful in ASBOG test, 2017
Karina Galinskaya - 2017 Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant
2017 Graduate Council Travel Award
Tyler Vaughn - 2017 Kansas Geological Foundation Research Scholarship
Katie Garth - 2016 Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant
Colleen Gura - 2016 Kansas State University Graduate Research Forum-Engineering and Physical Sciences Division- 2 nd
Michelle Berube - 2016 Kansas State University Graduate Research Forum-Engineering and Physical Sciences Division- 3 rd
Ian Andree - 2016 Kansas Geological Foundation Scholarship- Norma and Bill Johnson Scholarship (Jan25)
2016 Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant
Brooks Ryan - 2016 Arts and Science Undergraduate Research Award
2016 Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Award
Samuel Stone - 2015 Arts and Sciences Travel Award, Synchrotron at SSRL
Shovon Barua - 2014 Geological Society of America Research Award
2014 KState Arts and Science Travel Award
Congrats Shovon! Successful Defense Presentation, 3 Aug 2015
Brent Campbell - 2014 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation Grants-in-Aid Program-
Barrett Family Named Grant (Grants-in Aid Page)
2014 Kansas Geological Foundation
Congrats Brent! Great Defense Presentation, 15 Apr 2015
Golam Kibria, Shovon Barua and Brent Campbell - KState Arts and Sciences Travel Funds, Oct 2013
Shovon Barua - Travel Grant to GSA Meeting, KState Graduate Council, 2013
Golam Kibria - Congratulations in Defending MSc (Aug 2014)
Travel Grant to GSA, Kansas State University Graduate Student Council, 2013
Travel Grant to GSA Meeting, Graduate Student Council, 2012
Geological Society of America, Graduate Research Grant, 2013
NSLS/CFN Users Meeting Student Scholarship, 2013
Mike Vega - Arts and Science Undergraduate Research Award Fall 2013 (CO2 Project)
Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Award and Travel Award to India Fall 2014 (India Project)
Sigma Xi Grant in Aid for Research Fall 2014 (India Project)
Summer 2015 Office of Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry Travel Award
Chad Hobson - 3rd position at 17th Annual K-State Research Forum in the Division of Graduate Engineering/Math/Physical
Sciences, 2012
Travel Grant to Goldschmidt Conference, Montreal Canada, 2012
Travel Grant to AGU, Kansas State University Graduate Student Council, 2012
Sophia Ford - Undergraduate intern - KSU nomination for Morris K. Udall Scholarship, 2012
Kansas Research Forum 2nd Position in Undergraduate Poster Competition, 2013
Robin Barker - 1st position for poster presentation at AAPG/SEG Spring Break Student Expo. Judged among 47
posters in the Geology Section, 2012
National Energy Technology Laboratory- DOE, Pittsburgh, Summer Internship 2011
GSA Travel Grant 2011
Congrats for defending Masters Thesis, successfully - Nov 2012
M.S. Sankar - 3rd Position at the 18th Annual Kansas State Research Forum, Interdisciplinary Division, 2013
Congrats for defending Masters Thesis, successfully - Jul 2013
O.C. Eke - Currently at USDA Forest Services. Congrats for defending Masters Thesis, successfully - Aug 2011
I am always looking for new students! Contact me if you are interested in Graduate studies in Hydrogeology and Geochemistry at KSU--Candidates will be taken again for Aug 2018. Students can apply to work in my lab through the Department of Geology and the School of Arts and Sciences. Undergraduate intern possibilities will open in Summer 2018.
Andrew Neal - Obtained following grants: NASA: KSU NASA Space Grant Consortium (http://www.k-state.edu/ksgc/) ; Geological Society of America (GSA) Graduate Student Research Grant (https://rock.geosociety.org/grants/); American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Foundation Grants-in-Aid: Barrett Family Named Grant (http://foundation.aapg.org/gia/); Kansas Geological Foundation Scholarship (http://www.kgfoundation.org/); GSA Student Travel Grant, South-Central Section (http://www.geosociety.org/grants/travel.htm); Kansas State Research Forum, Apr 2010-Second Position. Congrats Andrew for defending Masters thesis successfully - Dec 2010