Dr. Urmi DuttaW.B.E.S

Qualification

M.Sc , Ph.D.

Contact Details :

Assistant Professor
Department of Geology
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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 :

1. Mandal, N., Sarkar, S., Baruah, A., Dutta, U. (2018). “Production, pathways
2. 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
3. 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 .
4. 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 .
5. 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.
6. 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

1. Dutta, U, (2018), “Mantle Plume Pulses and Multiple Eruptions in DeccanTrap”. Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii, USA
2. Dutta, U, (2016), “Jets and plumes in Earth system: how they ascend”. Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK.
3. Dutta, U, (2014), “Ascent behaviour of jets and plumes”. Institute of Earth Sciences, J. W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany.