IITKGP

Abhijit Mukherjee

Professor

Geology and Geophysics

abhijit@gg.iitkgp.ac.in

Welcome to Hydrogeosciences | New book "Global Groundwater: Source, Scarcity, Sustainability, Security, Solutions" published by Elsevier (978-0-12-818172-0) | Inducted as Fellow to the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK and Geological Society of America (USA) | Recipient of first Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (2020) in Hydrogeology | Selected by DST as one of the top 75 Indian Scientists below 50 years age |

Research Areas

  • Physical, Chemical, Isotope Hydrogeology
  • Water Res. Policy and Governance
  • Contaminant fate and transport
  • Numerical and Geochemical Modeling
  • Geologic control on hydrologic systems

Ph.D., 2006, University of Kentucky, USA; Postdoctoral, 2006-08, University of Texas at Austin; Physical Hydrogeologist, 2008-10, Alberta Geological Survey, Canada; Faculty, 2010-till, IIT Kharagpur

I work in groundwater exploration for suitable and sustainable drinking water sources in different parts of the world, specifically India.These study areas suffer from poor groundwater quality or groundwater insufficiency. With my specialization in regional hydrogeology and groundwater contaminant transport, my students and I are engaged in understanding decadal-scale groundwater storage changes over Indian subcontinent, groundwater-river-seawater interactions, groundwater quality evolution of the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin, Numerical and AI simulations of groundwater. I have also recently initiated a project on application of artificial intelligence techniques in predicting future groundwater availability and pollution in different parts of India.My regularly collaborators include internationally acclaimed scientists from NASA, U.S. Geological Survey, British Geological Survey, MIT, Columbia University, KTH Sweden, University College London, Manchester University etc.

My researches on groundwater have been funded by Ministry of Earth Sciences, DST, Ministry of Human Research Development, Govt. of West Bengal, GSA etc. I have developed the first regional groundwater flow model of the western Bengal basin and explored arsenic-safe aquifers in extensive parts of the Gangetic plains and delta. The findings have influenced the groundwater usage policy by Government of India. I received the first Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2020 in groundwater and selected by DST as one of 50 Indian scientists below 50 years age

Research Areas

  1. A. Arsenic and other contaminants fate and transport: global-scale to laboratory scale
    B. Interaction of groundwater with sea and river water
    C. Groundwater recharge and estimation
    D. Groundwater evolution (flow and chemistry) of large sedimentary basins
    E. Groundwater exploration, management and remediation
    F. Urban Geoscience
    G. Numerical Methods, AI, Deep Learning and Big Data Analytics Application
    H. Numical, Geospatial and Geochemical Modeling
  • Solute chemistry and fate of arsenic in the aquifers between the Himalayan foothills and Indian craton: Influence of geology and geomorphology Mukherjee, A.*, Scanlon, B.R., Fryar, A.E.,D, Ghosh, A., Chaudhari, S., Mishra, R. By Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 90 283-302 (2012)
  • Deeper groundwater chemistry and geochemical modeling of the arsenic affected western Bengal basin, West Bengal, India Mukherjee, A.*, Fryar, A.E. By Applied Geochemistry 23 863-892 (2008)
  • Hydrogeochemical comparison and effects of overlapping redox zones on groundwater arsenic near the western (Bhagirathi sub-basin, India) and eastern (Meghna sub-basin, Bangladesh) of the Bengal basin Mukherjee, A.*, von Brömssen, M, Scanlon, B.R., Bhattacharya, P., Fryar, A.E., Hasan, M.A., Ahmed, K.M., Jacks, G. Chatterjee, D., Sracek, O. By Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 99 31-48 (2008)
  • Regional hydrostratigraphy and groundwater flow modeling of the arsenic contam Mukherjee, A.*, Fryar, A.E., and Howell, P By Hydrogeology Journal 15 1397-1418 (2007)
  • Regional scale stable isotopic signature and recharge of the deep water of the arsenic affected areas of West Bengal, India Mukherjee, A.*, Fryar, A.E., and Rowe, H.D. By Journal of Hydrology 334 151-161 (2007)

Principal Investigator

  • Demonstration of Sustainable Mitigation of Groundwater Arsenic in Arsenic-Polluted Gangetic River Aquifers of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, India
  • Drinking water availability in the climate change vulnerable Sunderbans, West Bengal, India
  • Study of Field-scale Transport of Arsenic from Point-source to Drinking Water Wells
  • Study of Sanitation, Health and Social Impacts in West Bengal for Nirmal Bangla Mission

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Aditya Choubey Centre for Re-Water Research Mr. Aneesh Reddy and Mr. Anant Choubey
  • Integrated Urban Water Management for Enhanced Water Security Apex Committee of SPARC
  • Paleoclimatic Evolution of the Indian Subcontinet as Recorded in Continental Archives During the Holocene Ministry of Earth Sciences

Ph. D. Students

Ankit Dipta Dutta

Area of Research: Subsurface Geophysics

Anwesha Mukhopadhyay

Area of Research: Groundwater and surface water quality

Basudev Pradhan

Area of Research: Hydrogeology

Champa Banerjee

Area of Research: Groundwater Interactions

David Anand Aind

Area of Research: Groundwater quantity and quality

Don Chatterjee

Area of Research: Groundwater Processes

Nilasree Raychowdhury

Area of Research: Groundwater Pollution

Poulomee Coomar

Area of Research: Geological control on hydrology

Prakrity Majumder

Area of Research: Groundwater evolution

Rahul Ghosh

Area of Research: Groundwater River water Interactions

Samarpita Sarkar

Area of Research: Groundwater River water Interactions

Soumyajit Sarkar

Area of Research: Environmental hydrology

Sreemoyee Bhattacherjee

Area of Research: Groundwater Pollution

Subroto Vyas

Area of Research: AI application on drinking water

Tridip Bhowmik

Area of Research: Groundwater quality and remediation

Yachna Verma

Area of Research: Paleoclimatology and Continental Deposits

MS Students

Somdipta Sen

Area of Research: coastal hydrology

Sreedipta Chattopadhyay

Area of Research: Groundwater quantity and quality