I am a geologist with broad, multidisciplinary interests in various fields of environmental geology. My research approach is a combination of fieldwork, laboratory analyses, and computer applications. My present interest is geogenic, groundwater contamination in alluvial basins around the globe. I am also interested in studying groundwater–surface water interactions and slope stability.

Education

B.Sc. (Honors) in Geology, First class, University of Calcutta, India, 1997

M.Sc. in Geology, First class, University of Calcutta, India, 1999

Postgraduate diploma in Software Engineering, NIIT, India, 2000

M.S. in Geology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 2003

Ph.D. in Geology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 2006

Committees

Co-Chair, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2006
"Arsenic and related metalloids in groundwater and surface water systems"

Co-Chair, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, 2005
" Arsenic occurrence and fate in hydrogeologic systems"

Selected Honors

Dissertation Enhancement Award, University of Kentucky, 2005

Graduate Student Research Grant Award, Hydrogeology Division,
Geological Society of America, 2004

Pirtle Fellowship, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky, 2004-2006

All India Rank 20th in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), Government of India, 2001

National Scholarship from Government of India for excellence in graduate studies, 1999

Total Freedom Scholarship from National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), India, for software engineering study, 1997

Selected Publications

Articles
Mukherjee, A., Fryar, A.E., and Howell, P. (2007). Regional hydrostratigraphy and groundwater flow modeling of the arsenic contaminated aquifers of the western Bengal basin, West Bengal, India. Hydrogeology Journal, DOI: 10.1007/s10040-007-0208-7. [PDF]

Mukherjee, A., Fryar, A. E., and Rowe, H. D., 2007, Regional-scale stable isotopic signatures of recharge and deep groundwater in the arsenic affected areas of West Bengal, India: Journal of Hydrology, v. 334, no. 1–2, p. 151–161. [PDF]

Fryar, A. E., and Mukherjee, A., 2006, Arsenic pollution in western Bengal basin: Is deeper water an alternate safe source? The International Congress on Integrated Water Resources Management and Challenges of the Sustainable Development (GIRE3D), Marrakech, Morocco.

Mukherjee, A., Fryar, A. E., and LaSage, D. M., 2005, Using tracer tests to assess natural attenuation of contaminants along a channelized Coastal Plain stream: Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, v. 11, no. 4, p. 371–381. [PDF]

Mukherjee, A., and Mitra, A. K., 2001, Geotechnical study of mass movements along the Kalimpong approach road in the eastern Himalayas: Indian Journal of Geology, v. 73, no. 4, p. 271–279. [PDF]

Mukherjee, A., Fryar, A. E., and Chakraborti A., 2004, Regional groundwater chemistry and its relation to arsenic contamination in the western Bengal basin: XXXIII Congress IAH & 7o Congress ALHSUD: International Association of Hydrogeologists, Zacatecas, Mexico, paper WS-AS-04, 4 p.

Abstracts
Mukherjee, A., and Fryar, A. E., in press, Arsenic mobilization and retention caused by partial redox equilibrium in deeper groundwater of the western Bengal basin, West Bengal, India: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs.

Mukherjee, A., Von Brömssen, M., Jacks, G., Ahmed, K. M., Fryar, A.E., Hasan, M. A., and Bhattacharya, P., 2006, Hydrochemical contrast between two arsenic affected areas near the eastern and western margins of Bengal basin: some preliminary results: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs.

Mukherjee, A., and Fryar, A. E., 2005, A composite approach to characterize the deeper aquifer of the arsenic contaminated western Bengal basin, India (abs.): Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 7, p. 170.

Mukherjee, A., and Fryar, A. E., 2005, Arsenic in deeper groundwater of the western Bengal basin, India: a contradiction of conventional belief (abs.), in Proceedings of the Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium: Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, p. 29–30.

Mukherjee, A., and Fryar, A. E., 2004, Regional-scale hydrostratigraphy and groundwater chemistry in the western Bengal basin, India (abs.): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 5, p. 566.

Contact

Abhijit Mukherjee
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
E-mail:
Telephone: 512-232-1527

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October 2006