Somsubhra Chattopadhyay

Experience and Interests

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point (February 2024 – Present)
• Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland (2020-23)
• Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, Mahindra University, India (2018-19)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, India (2017-18)

Research Interests

• Surface and subsurface hydrology
• Freshwater ecology
• Impact assessment of climate and land use change
• Changes in extreme hydrological events
• Aquatic biodiversity
• Isotope hydrology

Involvement

Professional Affiliations

• Life Member, Indian Water Resources Society (IWRS)
• Life Member, Indian Association of Soil and Water Conservationists (IASWC)
• Member, International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
• Member, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ASABE)

Select Publications

• Chattopadhyay, S., Dytkiewicz, M., Marcinkowski, P., Mirosław-Świątek, D., Szałkiewicz, E., Piniewski, M. Development of an integrated modelling framework to evaluate impacts of pressures on habitat conditions and riverine biota. Ecohydrology (2023) https://doi.org/10.1002/eco2585
• Baldan, D, Chattopadhyay, S., Prus, P., Funk, A., Keller, A., Piniewski, M. (2022) Regionalization strategy affects the determinants of fish community structure. Ecohydrology https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2425
• Brauns, B., Chattopadhyay, S., Lapworth, DJ., Loveless, SE., MacDonald, AM., McKenzie, AA., Muddu, S., Nara, SNV., Srinivasan, V. (2022) Assessing the role of groundwater recharge from tanks in crystalline bedrock aquifers in Karnataka, India, using hydrochemical tracers. Journal of Hydrology X 100121, 15
• Lapworth, DJ., Brauns, B., Chattopadhyay, S., Gooddy, DC., Loveless, SE., MacDonald, AM., McKenzie, AA., Muddu, S., Nara, SNV. (2021) Elevated uranium in basement aquifers of Southern India. Applied Geochemistry, 133, 105092
• Chattopadhyay, S., Oglęcki, P., Keller, A., Kardel, I., Mirosław-Świątek, D., Piniewski, M. (2021) Effect of a summer flood on benthic macroinvertebrates in a medium-sized, temperate, lowland river. Water, 13, 885 DOI: 10.3390/w13070885
• Keller, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Piniewski, M. (2021) What evidence exists on the impacts of flow variability on fish and macroinvertebrates of temperate floodplain rivers in Central and Western Europe? A systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence, 10:10
• Chattopadhyay, S., Edwards, DR., Yu, Y., Hamidisepehr, A. (2017) An assessment of climate change impacts on future water availability and droughts in the Kentucky River Basin. Environmental Processes, DOI: 10.1007/s40710-017-0259-2, August 2017
• Chattopadhyay, S., Edwards, DR., Yu, Y. (2017) Contemporary and future characteristics of precipitation indices in the Kentucky River Basin. Water, 9, 109 DOI: 10.3390/w9020109
• Chattopadhyay, S., Jha, MK. (2016). Hydrological response due to projected climate variability in Haw River Watershed, North Carolina, USA. Hydrological Sciences DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2014.934823
• Chattopadhyay, S., Edwards, DR. (2016). Long term trend analysis of precipitation and air temperature for Kentucky, United States. Climate, 4(10) DOI: 10.3390/cli4010010