Saugata Datta
PhD: Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Canada: 2001
Mellon-Barnard & Columbia Earth Institute Fellow, Columbia University, New York: 2004
CURRENT NEWS IN THE LAB
Welcome to the Datta Lab!
We are hydrogeologists and low temperature geochemists working on environmental sustainability.
Associate Professor
Chemical Hydrogeology and Environmental Geochemistry
Department of Geology, Kansas State University
104 Thompson Hall, Manhattan, Kansas, 66506
Phn: (785) 532-2241
Fax: (785) 532-5159
Email: sdatta@ksu.edu
Prior Appointments:
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences,
Georgia College & State University, Georgia (2004-2008)
Reader, University of Calcutta,
Department of Geology, India (2005-2006)
CO2 Sequestration Projects
Project One: CO2 in Western Annex Grant: Understanding formation water, rock and supercritical CO2 interaction with geochemical modeling. Funding: Department of Energy (2 year project, starting 2013) - Applications for Master Graduate students are currently invited
Project Two: Small scale field test demonstrating CO2 sequestration in Arbuckle Saline Aquifer and by CO2-EOR at Wellington field, Sumner County, Kansas. Funding: Department of Energy (3 year project, starting 2013) - Applications for Masters Graduate students and Postdocs are currently invited
Summer Interns - Sophia Ford and Guiherme Hoerlle
Goldschmidt presentations 2012- Robin Barker, Chad Hobson, M.S. Sankar [Montreal, Canada] (click for abstracts)
GSA presentations 2012- Robin Barker, Sophia Ford & Md Golam Kibria [Charlotte, North Carolina] (click for abstracts)
AGU presentations 2012- Chad Hobson
Urban Water Institute - Core Faculty
News published from the lab
AWARDS OF GRADUATE STUDENTS
Robinson_Barker- 1. First place poster at AAPG/SEG Spring Break Student Expo. Judged among 47 posters in the Geology
Chad Hobson- 1. Third place at 17th Annual K-State Research Forum in the Division of Graduate Engineering/Math/Physical
Sophia Ford- Undergraduate intern- KSU nomination for Morris K. Udall Scholarship
Md Golam Kibria- Travel Grant to GSA, Kansas State University Graduate Student Council
O.C. Eke- Congrats for defending Masters Thesis, successfully - Aug 2011
Andrew Neal- (Currently at Virginia Tech) on the Arsenic Project: Obtained following grants: NASA: KSU NASA Space Grant Consortium (http://www.k-state.edu/ksgc/) ; Geological Society of America (GSA) Graduate Student Research Grant (https://rock.geosociety.org/grants/); American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Foundation Grants-in-Aid: Barrett Family Named Grant (http://foundation.aapg.org/gia/); Kansas Geological Foundation Scholarship (http://www.kgfoundation.org/); GSA Student Travel Grant, South-Central Section (http://www.geosociety.org/grants/travel.htm); Kansas State Research Forum, Apr 2010-Second Position. Congrats Andrew for defending Masters thesis successfully - Dec 2010
I am always looking for new students! Contact me if you are interested in Graduate studies in Hydrogeology and Geochemistry at KSU. Students can apply to work in my lab through the Department of Geology and the School of Arts and Sciences.
CURRENT FUNDED RESEARCH
EAR - 1014971: Collaborative Research: Chemical Hydrogeologic Investigations of Tungsten: Field, Laboratory, and Modeling Studies of an Emerging Environmental Contaminant. Project location: Kansas State University, National Science Foundation, Hydrologic Sciences Program
DE-FE0002056: Modeling Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in Saline Aquifer & Depleted Oil Reservoir, Project Location: Kansas State University, U.S. DOE / NETL
DE-FE0002056: Supplementary: Modeling Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in Saline Aquifer & Depleted Oil Reservoir-Western Annex, Project Location: Kansas State University, U.S. DOE / NETL
DE-FE0006821: Small Scale Field Test Demonstrating CO2 Sequestration, Project Location: Kansas State University, U.S. DOE / NETL
DE-FE0004566: Prototyping and testing a new volumetric curvature tool to model reservoir compartments and leakage pathways in Arbuckle saline aquifer to reduce uncertainty in CO2 storage and permanence, U.S. DOE / NETL
Pariette Wetlands Salinity / Selenium Study: Project Location: Kansas State University, Bureau of Land Mgmt, Utah
section (March 14-16, 2012)
2. National Energy Technology Laboratory- DOE, Pittsburgh, Summer Internship (Aug 15-30, 2011)
3. GSA Travel Grant 2011
Sciences (March 8, 2012)
2. Travel Grant to Goldschmidt Conference, Montreal Canada
3. Travel Grant to AGU, Kansas State University Graduate Student Council