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Dr. Debjani Ghatak is a Lecturer at Loyola University Chicago's School of Environmental Sustainability, specializing in hydro-climatology and Arctic climate change. She holds a PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences from CUNY and has extensive postdoctoral experience at Rutgers University and Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on cryospheric processes, high elevation warming, and environmental challenges in South Asia. Dr. Ghatak currently mentors Loyola undergraduates in Arctic hydro-climatology studies and maintains an experimental field site at the Loyola Ecology Campus.
Her education includes a PhD and MS from CUNY's Graduate Center and an M.Sc. in Geography from the University of Calcutta. She completed teaching certifications through Johns Hopkins University's HEART fellowship and Teaching Institute. Professional roles include Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas A&M, Clinical Data Analyst at Abbvie, and postdoctoral research at Rutgers and Johns Hopkins.
Research interests span soil moisture dynamics, Chicago hydro-climatology, and teleconnections between snow cover and Arctic sea ice. She has contributed to NASA's South Asia Land Data Assimilation System and served on NSF and NASA proposal review panels. Her work bridges climatology, geophysics, and environmental policy, with affiliations to AGU, AMS, and the Permafrost Young Researchers Network.
Dr. Ghatak has received multiple awards including a 2022 grant for undergraduate research engagement and the 2011 World Climate Research Program Best Poster Award. Her publications address topics like snow-albedo feedback mechanisms, elevation-dependent warming, and the impacts of forest degradation on disease outbreaks.
