Email id: [email protected] Joyeeta Bhattacharya Phone: +18327055499 PhD candidate (Supervisor: Prof. Gerald R. Dickens),
Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University
Motivation: I am currently seeking internship opportunity in oil and gas industry in the position of a geoscientist (with emphasis in geology of petroleum systems). I am available for full time employment from Summer 2020 onward.
Academic Profile
§ PhD, Rice University, 2015 to present (Expected graduation- May, 2020): GPA: 4.0: - Stratigraphy and geochemistry of sedimentary rocks from various deep marine and shallow marine depositional environments and their sedimentological variability in times of extreme warmth like Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum and other Eocene hyperthermals: implications on carbon cycling processes by which carbonate sediments undergo dissolution in the deep marine settings and dilution in shallow marine settings in response to global climatic changes. § M.Sc. Applied Geology, Jadavpur University, India, 2012-2014: 87.7%, (1st rank holder, Gold Medalist): - Structural and metamorphic genesis of the Khondalite enclaves from Northern part of Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex near Deogarh, Jharkhand, India. § B.Sc. Honors in Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, India, 2009-2012: 84.42%, (1st rank holder, Gold Medalist)
Employment and work experiences
§ Part-time Intern (Climatology and Oceanography) at MatthewsDaniel (June, 2018 and August- September, 2018): - Oceanographic and meteorological forecasting for oil and gas offshore rigs. § Awarded the position of Sedimentologist in IODP Expedition 371, Tasman Frontier Subduction Initiation and Paleogene Climate (July-September, 2017): - Generating lithostratigraphic framework of six Tasman region’s drill sites - Macroscopic and microscopic core description methods - Studying Magnetic Susceptibility, Gamma Ray Attenuation logs and high resolution color images of cores § Summer Trainee at Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, India (May-June, 2013): - Reservoir characterization in the Bengal-Purnea-Orissa (India) basin - Well logging - 2D seismic interpretation § Summer Research Fellow under Indian Academy of Sciences (May-July, 2012): - Tracing paleoprecipitation in Holocene Central India using Phytoliths in soil.
Position and responsibilities
§ Vice President of American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Rice University Students’ Chapter (2017-present) § Certification on completing 5-year Membership and continuing with American Association of Petroleum Geologists (2010-present) § Committee Member of AAPG Student Expo, Houston (2016-present) § Mentor of High school student in STEM IBB-RICE summer mentorship program (2016) § Secretary of American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Rice University Students’ Chapter (2016- 2017) § Secretary and Treasurer of Geounion, Department of Earth Science, Rice University (2016- 2017) § Student member and volunteer of Geophysical Society of Houston, Houston Geological Society and American Institute of Professional Geologists § Secretary and Treasurer of AAPG Students’ Chapter Jadavpur University (2010-2011)
Abstracts and Publications
§ Sutherland R., Dickens G.R., Blum P., and the Expedition 371 Scientists: International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 371 Preliminary Report: Tasman Frontier Subduction Initiation and Paleogene Climate (27 July–26 September 2017): January, 2018 https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.371.2018 § Bhattacharya J. and Dickens G.R.: Eocene carbonate dissolution events in the North Pacific Ocean: GSA 2018 doi: 10.1130/abs/2018SC-310137 § Bhattacharya J. and Dickens G.R.: Paleogene carbonate dissolution events in the North Pacific Ocean: AGU 2016 (PP43C-2349)
Academic achievements
§ Selected as one of ten US Early career researchers to attend Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology with NSF Scholarship (2018) § Selected by United States Science Support Program to attend Short course on Shipboard Sedimentology, IODP Gulf Core Repository, College Station, November 2016 § University Topper (1st rank holder- Gold Medalist) in M.Sc. (Applied Geology), Jadavpur University, India, 2014 § University Topper (1st rank holder- Gold Medalist) in B.Sc. (Geological Sciences), Jadavpur University, India, 2012
Grants and scholarships
§ NSF Scholarship for Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology § Recipient of AAPG Grants in Aid 2018 § Travel Grant for Paper Presentation at SCGSA 2018, Little Rock, Arkansas § NSF Research grant for sailing as Shipboard Scientist on IODP Expedition 371 § CSIR-UGC Research Scholarship; November 2014-May 2015, Jadavpur University, India § Meritorious women scholarship from Hindustan Unilever Fair and Lovely Foundation, India, 2012- 2014 § Jadavpur University Post Graduate Merit Award § Indira Gandhi scholarship for women in higher studies, 2012-2014
Extra-academic activities
§ Actively participated in solidarity campaigns, literacy campaigns and visited orphanages and old age homes affiliated under the Missionaries of Charity, on behalf of Auxilium Convent School § Science writer in Outcroppings (Rice University), Anwesha and The JU Journal (Jadavpur University) and The Telegraph in Schools. § Secured 1st place in Inter-House Theater and Music competition, 2006 at Auxilium Convent School and 2nd place in Inter-House Quiz competition, Army School, 2007 § Obtained a Distinction in painting under Surabharati Sangeet Parishad.