Dr. Urmi DuttaW.B.E.S
Qualification
M.Sc , Ph.D.
Contact Details :
Assistant Professor Department of Geology E-Mail: -
Teaching Experience :
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Specialization :
Fellowship and Awards
- Selected for DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award (2016).
- Qualified in the CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) held in 2008-December as CSIR-JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW.
- Qualified in the Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineers (GATE) - 2008 with Rank 26th and Percentile 96.5.
Ongoing Project:
- Title: Core formation and early Earth tectonics: control of core-mantle coupling
- Sponsoring Agency: Department of Science and Technology (DST), India.
- Value of the project: 35 Lakhs
- Project Duration: 5 Years (2017-2022)
Research Interest :
Research Experiences
Post-Ph.D.
- July, 2017 till November 2019: School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, India.
- June, 2016 till date: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
- March 2016- May 2016: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Ph.D.
- July 2011- December 2015: Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University.
- February, 2010- June, 2011: Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University.
- July, 2009- January, 2010: Department of Earth Sciences, IISER-Kolkata.
Broad Area of Research
Geodynamics, Structural Geology and Solid Earth geophysics.
Specific Area of Research
Geophysical fluid dynamics, Thermal plumes, Flows in Earth’s mantle and core, Subduction zones, Mid-oceanic ridges, Volcanic system, Transform faults, Diapirism, Geomagnetism.
Publications :
- Mandal, N., Sarkar, S., Baruah, A., Dutta, U. (2018). “Production, pathways
- and budgets of melts in mid-ocean ridges: An enthalpy based thermomechanical model”. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 277, 55-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2018.01.008
- Dutta, U., Baruah, A., Mandal, N., (2016), “Role of source-layer tilts in the axi-asymmetric growth of diapirs triggered by a Rayleigh-Taylor instability”. Geophysical Journal International, 206, 1814–1830. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw244 .
- Sarkar, S., Baruah, A., Dutta, U., Mandal, N., (2014). “Role of random thermal perturbations in mid-oceanic ridge segmentation: insights from numerical simulations”. Tectonophysics, 636, 83-99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2014.08.008 .
- Dutta, U., Sarkar, S., Baruah, A., Mandal, N., (2014). “Ascent modes of jets and plumes in a stationary fluid of contrasting viscosity”. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 63, 1-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2014.02.007.
- Dutta, U., Sarkar, S., Mandal, N., (2013). “Ballooning versus curling of mantle plumes: views from numerical models”. Current Science. 104 (7), 893–903.
Research work highlighted :
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Others :
Schools and Conferences Attended
- 15 th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Honolulu, USA, 2018
- Advanced School on “Physics of Volcanoes”, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP),Trieste, Italy, 2016
- Workshop “From the Continuum to the Tectonic: the Magma/Mantle Dynamics of Planet Earth”, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2016.
- Conference on “Rock deformation and Structures (RDS-III)”, Dibrugarh University, 2014.
- Conference on “GeoMod2014 – Modelling in Geosciences”, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany, 2014.
- Conference on “Modern Geological and Geophysical Methods and Their Applications”, Indian Geophysical Union, Jadavpur University, 2013.
- Conference on “Rock deformation and Structures (RDS-II)”, Lucknow University, 2012.
- Conference on “Rock deformation and Structures (RDS-I)”, Jadavpur University, 2010.
- Workshop on “Seismic Interpretation” organized by British Gas at Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, 2006.
Talks Presented
- Dutta, U, (2018), “Mantle Plume Pulses and Multiple Eruptions in DeccanTrap”. Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii, USA
- Dutta, U, (2016), “Jets and plumes in Earth system: how they ascend”. Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK.
- Dutta, U, (2014), “Ascent behaviour of jets and plumes”. Institute of Earth Sciences, J. W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany.
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