Atreyee Bhattacharya

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SCIENCE WRITING AND SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

WORKED WITH THE AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S PNNL OFFICE, THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA AS SCIENCE WRITER AND COMMUNICATOR

Research Highlights

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Program's research highlights for public and media outreach (web). For a complete and up-to-date list, please click here.  

Research Spotlights

The American Geophysical Union (AGU)'s newspaper EOS (in print). For a complete and up-to-date list, please click here.

News stories

  • Heavy mortality in Europe possible for Icelandic eruption. Earth Magazine (October 2012, please contact me for a copy)
  • Models and mapping of grounding line modify Antarctic forecast.  Earth Magazine (September 2012, please contact me for a copy)
  • Destructive Lahars don't follow hazzard models. Earth Magazine (August 2012, please contact me for a copy)
  •  Turning the pages of history. Explorations Now
  • Hearing footsteps under the ocean.Explorations Now  
  • Unmasking timekeeper of 24 hour cycle in mammals. Focus  
  • How do bacteria handle mixed signals? With surprising simplicity. Focus (in print)
  • "Those goosebumps on glacier" Explorations Now

Features and commentaries

  • The World Bank at Scripps Institution of Oceanography: what do we need to know before funding a  project in the developing world. Consilience: The journal of sustainable development
  • Famine follows the plough. Science in the news, Boston
  • Coral bleeching in 2010: An early indicator of vulnerable marine ecosystems under human made stress. Science in the news, Boston
  • Megadroughts: What causes, what solution?  Intersection at Discoverer magazine
  • Waste that matters: Plastics in the Pacific Ocean- a growing cause for concern.Science in the news, Boston
  • A dollop of dust: Is airborne dust causing regional and global climate change? Masticated Science, Boston
  • Have the rains deserted the Sahel?  Science 20.0 (previously, Scientific Blogging)

Blogging

  • Coffee plants don't like it hot. PLOS Blogs 
  • Air Time. A blog hsoted within www.arm.gov. Breaking new research on climate and atmospheric sciences (March-July, 2013). Page no longer active.
  • Moderator of Field Notes, a blog where scientists and techies share their experiences in the field and labs (March-July, 2013)
  • Food, Thought For. A collection of recipes, photographs, tips, thoughts and take on home cooking, since 2009.
  • A writer's thought. A collection of short stories, since 2006
  • Food blogger on B'khush. For clips, please click here.
  • Experiments in photography.

Press releases and announcemen

  • Taking the heat on the U.S. Great Plains, ARM news
  • ARM Facility captures rare tornado data ARM news
  • A Homecoming party at the Los Angeles Shipping Dock ARM news
  • New Field Campaigns Move Mobile Facility to Finland Forest and California Coast. ARM News
  • Scripps graduate wins sustainability prize. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
  • Complex choices in Medicare Advantage Program may overwhelm seniors. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Newsletter

Pitched for, contributed, and edited articles and features for the bi-monthly newsletter of the Association of Women in Science (San Diego). For my articles in the newsletter, please follow this link and check for  2012 May-Dec issues.

SELECTED SCIENCE COMMUNICATION PUBLIC SPEAKING 

  • “Role of institutions in improving climate communication”. AGU Chapman conference on “Communicating climate science, a historic look into the future” (June, 2013)
  • E.K.Thomas, S. Datta and A. Bhattacharya. “Climate Change: What we know and where we go from here”. Invited talk at SITN Seminar, Harvard Medical School (May, 2012)

Member of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW.ORG)