Specialization : Marine & Estuarine Biogeochemistry

Address : Department of Marine Science University of Calcutta 35, Ballygunge Circular Road Calcutta, PIN 700 019, West Bengal, INDIA

Academic qualifications:

Research interests:

Chemical Oceanographic aspects of coastal and estuarine systems covering

1. Marine and estuarine Biogeochemistry and Biogeochemical cycles of elements,
2. Air-sea and Biosphere – atmosphere exchange of radiatively active gases.
3. Biogeochemical process in the mangrove sediment with special emphasis on anaerobic organic matter mineralization.
4. Biogeochemistry & photochemistry of methane in the mangrove environment.
5. Organic matter cycling and source characterisation in the mangrove dominated estuaries.
6. Carbon dioxide system and nutrient dynamics in the mangrove dominated estuaries

Select list of publications:

A. International journal:

1. Daniel M. Alongi, Sandip K. Mukhopadhyay, 2015, Contribution of mangroves to coastal carbon cycling in low latitude seas. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 213 (2015)
2. Manab Kumar Dutta, Raghab Ray, Rishmita Mukherjee, Tapan Kumar Jana, Sandip Kumar Mukhopadhyay, 2015. Atmospheric fluxes and photo-oxidation of methane in the mangrove environment of the Sundarbans, NE coast of India; A case study from Lothian Island. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 213, 33 – 41.
3. Manab Kumar Dutta, Rishmita Mukherjee, Tapan Kumar Jana, Sandip Kumar Mukhopadhyay, 2015. Biogeochemical dynamics of exogenous methane in an estuary associated to a mangrove biosphere; the Sundarbans, NE coast of India. Marine Chemistry, 170, 1 – 10.
4. M.K. Dutta, C. Chodhury, T.K. Jana, S.K. Mukhopadhyay, Dynamics and exchange fluxes of methane in the estuarine mangrove environment of the Sundarbans, NE coast of India, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 77, October 2013, Pages 631–639.
5. Raghab Ray, Chumki Chowdhury, Natasha Majumder, Manab Kumar Dutta, Sandip Kumar Mukhopadhyay and Tapan Kumar Jana, Improved model calculation of atmospheric CO2increment in affecting carbon stock of tropicalmangrove forest. Tellus B 2013, 65, 18981, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v65i0.18981