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Dr. Som Dutt

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Dr. Som Dutt

Dr. Som Dutt

Designation : Scientist ‘D’

Phone : Office : 0135-2525212
Personal : 91+ 9410359206

E-mail : somdutt[at]wihg[dot]res[dot]in,

  • Google Scholar Page

  • Research Interests

    Climate change, Climate-society interaction, Isotopes geology, Monsoon regional behavior

  • Academic Qualification

    Year Education
    2018 Ph.D. Geosciences, University of Petroleum and Energy studies, Dehradun
    2012 M.Sc. Applied Geology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra
    2009 B.Sc., Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra

  • Professional Experience

    Year Experience
    01 Jan 2022 to Till date Scientist ‘D’
    13 Dec 2017-31 Dec 2021 Scientist ‘C’
    13 Nov 2017 - 04 Sept 2020 Co-OIC Stable Isotope Laboratory
    05 Dec 2014 - 12 Dec 2017 Scientist ‘B’
    08 Aug 2012 - 04 Dec 2014 Junior Research Fellow

  • Awards/Fellowships/Honors/Memorial Lectures

    • I.G.U.-J. G. Negi Young Scientist Award 2024

    • CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET)-JRF Examination (June-2013)

    • Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-2013)

    • Junior Research Fellow atthe Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (2012-2014)

    • POSE scholarship by Govt. of Haryana (India) during M.Sc. Applied Geology (2010-12)

  • Professional Memberships

    • Life member of Association of Quaternary Researchers, India

    • Life member of Indian Geophysical Union

    • Life member of Vijnana Bharti

    • Life member of Himalayan Geology

    • Member of PALCOM community, INQUA

  • Grants

    • Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India “Post-LGM precipitation and temperature variability in western Himalaya” (PI) (Co-PI: Dr Anil Kumar, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India)(Grant: ₹ 48.80 Lakhs) (2022-2025)

    • Ministers of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India“Paleoclimatic evolution of the Indian subcontinent as recorded in continental archives during the Holocene” (Co-PI) (PI: Prof. Anil K. Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India) (Grant: ₹81.08 Lakhs) (2020-2024) (ROLE: Contributed to writing part of the project, planning the timeline and defending the project before the steering committee).

  • List of Publications

    2025
    • Dutt, S., Gupta, A. K., Jaiswal, J., Cheng, H., Gupta, P. (2025). Linkage between global CO2 concentration and Indian summermonsoon between 309 and 260 kyr BP. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 112906 (online published).
    • Jaglan, S., Gupta, A. K., Kaushik, A., Gupta, P., Dutt, S. (2025). Speleothems as key proxy for understanding Indian monsoon variability in the Core Monsoon Zone of India. Journal Geological Society of India (accepted for publication).
    • Sengupta, D., Dutt, S., Warken, S. F., Singam, A., Frank, N., Sagwal, S., &Maurya, S. (2025). Climate-change induced human migration and socio-political changes in eastern India during the Meghalayan age. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 112873.
    • Sagwal, S., Panda, S., Sengupta, D., Shahrukh, M., Kumar, S., Kumar, A., Dutt, S. (2024). Flash flood dynamics in the foothills of the NW Himalayas: insights into hydrological and morphological controls. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 197(1), 81.
    2024
    • Sengupta, D., Dutt, S., Daly, B. D. K., & Panda, S. (2024). Development of Geopark for Protecting Karst Region of Nongkhlieh Area, Meghalaya. Geoheritage, 16(1), 6
    2023
    • Sengupta, D., Dutt, S., Saha, S., Devrani, R. (2023). Geotourism Potential of the Bhiar Dhar Cave, Uttarakhand Himalaya. Geoheritage, 15(1), 23.
    • Sagwal, S., Sengupta, D., Kumar, A., Dutt, S., Srivastava, P., Agnihotri, R., Gahlaud, S.K.S., Jena, P.S., Shivam. A.,Bhushan, R. (2023). Late-Holocene wildfire record from the Stagmo peat section, Leh valley, NW Himalaya. The Holocene, 33(6), 685-694.
    • Devrani, R., Kumar, R., Dutt, S., Jamir, R. (2023). Geoheritage Assessment of a Hermit Cave System at Lakhamandal Valley, Upper Yamuna River Basin, NW Himalaya. Geoheritage, 15(1), 30.
    2022
    • Srivastava, V. K., Singh, B. P., Dutt, S., Aggarwal, A. (2022). First record of sulfate-driven anaerobic methane oxidation and associated dolomite precipitation in Kachchh Basin, western India. Carbonates and Evaporites, 37(1), 12.
    • Dong, X., Kathayat, G., Rasmussen, S. O., Svensson, A., Severinghaus, J. P., Li, H., Sinha, A., Xu, Y., Zhang, H., Shi, Z., Cai, Y., Pérez-Mejías, C., Baker, J., Zhao, J., Spötl, C., Columbu, A., Ning, Y., Stríkis, N.M., Chen, S., Wang, S., Gupta, A.K., Dutt, S., Zhang, F., Cruz, F.W., An, Z., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H. (2022). Coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean dynamics during Heinrich Stadial 2. Nature communications, 13(1), 5867.
    • Thakur, D., Bartarya, S. K., Nainwal, H. C.,Dutt, S. (2022). Impact of environment and LULC changes on groundwater resources in the Soan Basin, western Himalaya. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 194(9), 612.
    • Srivastava, P., Dutt, S., Singh, S., Panda, S. (2022). Holocene variability in Indian summer monsoon in the Himalaya and its foreland, and linkages to the society. Journal of the Indian Geophysical Union 26 (4), 258-273.
    • Sengupta, D., Dutt, S., Saha, S. (2022). Coherent nature of speleothems petrographic and isotopic proxies for climate change: A case study from northwestern Himalaya. Geological Journal, 57(7), 2904-2913.
    2021
    • Sehrawat, J. S., Sankhyan, D., Dutt, S., Rai, N. (2021). Stable C and N isotope analysis of human dental remains retrieved from an ancient well at Ajnala (Punjab, India): Assessment of Dietary status and geographic affiliations.
    • Cheng, H., Xu, Y., Dong, X., Zhao, J., Li, H., Baker, J., Sinha, A., Spotl, C., Zhang, H., Du, W.,Zong, B., Zia, X., Kathayat, G., Liu, D., Cai, Y., Wang, X., Strikis, N.M., Cruz, F.W., Auler, A.S., Gupta, A.K., Singh, R.K., Jaglan, S., Dutt, S., Liu, Z., Edwards, R. L. (2021). Onset and termination of Heinrich Stadial 4 and the underlying climate dynamics. Communications Earth & Environment, 2(1), 230.
    • Jaglan, S., Gupta, A. K., Clemens, S. C., Dutt, S., Cheng, H., Singh, R. K. (2021). Abrupt Indian summer monsoon shifts aligned with Heinrich events and DO cycles since MIS 3. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 583, 110658.
    • Dutt, S., Gupta, A.K., Devrani, R., Yadav, R.R., Singh, R.K. (2021). Regional disparity in summer monsoon precipitation in the Indian subcontinent during Northgrippian to Meghalayan transition. Current science, 120, 1449-1457.
    • Gupta, A.K., Singh, R.K., Dutt, S., Cheng, H., Clemens, S.C., Kathayat, G. (2021) High frequency shifts in the Indian summer monsoon following termination of the YD event. Quaternary Science Reviews, 259, 106888.
    • Das, S., Rai, S.K., Trapathi, G., Danish, M., Thakur, D., Dutt, S., Sarangi, S. (2021). The Role of Sulfuric Acid in Continental Weathering: Insights from Dissolved major ions and inorganic carbon isotopes of the Teesta River, lower Brahmaputra system. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, e2020GC009324.
    • Saha, S., Dutt, S., Barkat, R. (2021). Enigmatic molar-tooth structures (MTS) From MesoproterozoicDeoban limestone, NW-lesser Himalaya: evidence for microbial decay and in-situ precipitation. Journal Earth System Sciences, 130, 99.
    • Dutt, S., Gupta, A. K., Cheng, H., Clemens, S. C., Singh, R. K., &Tewari, V. C. (2021). Indian summer monsoon variability in northeastern India during the last two millennia. Quaternary International, 571, 73-80.
    2020
    • Singh, S., Gupta, A. K., Dutt, S., Bhaumik, A. K., Anderson, D. M. (2020). Abrupt shifts in the Indian summer monsoon during the last three millennia. Quaternary International, 558, 59-65.
    • Jaglan, S., Gupta, A. K., Cheng, H., Clemens, S. C., Dutt, S.,Balaji, S. (2020). Indian summer monsoon variability during the last millennium as recorded in stalagmite from BaratangMahadev cave, Andaman Islands. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 109908.
    • Jalal, P., Pandey, J.B., Ahmad, S.M., Dutt, S., Shukla, U.K., Maddodi, B. (2020) Effect of Deccan lava flows on the sedimentological evolution of Gurmatkalintertrappeans Karnataka, Southern India. Geological Journal,doi: 10.1002/gj.3711.
    • Kumar, A., Dutt, S., Saraswat, R., Gupta, A. K., Clift, P. D., Pandey, D. K., Yu, Z., Kulhanek, D. K. (2019). A late Pleistocene sedimentation in the Indus Fan, Arabian Sea, IODP Site U1457. Geological Magazine, 1-9.
    2019
    • Gupta, A. K., Dutt, S., Cheng, H., Singh, R. K. (2019). Abrupt changes in Indian summer monsoon strength during the last~ 900 years and their linkages to socio-economic conditions in the Indian subcontinent. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 536, 109347.
    • Dutt, S., Gupta, A. K., Singh, M., Jaglan, S., Saravanan, P., Balachandiran, P., Singh, A. (2019). Climate variability and evolution of the Indus civilization. Quaternary International, vol. 507, pp. 15- 23 .
    • Singhal, S., Mukherjee, P.K., Saini, N.K., Dutt, S., Kumar, R. (2019). Effect of carbon on major element analysis of carbonaceous silicate rocks by WD-XRF: An evaluation of error and its correction. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis, vol. 19, pp. 31-38.
    2018
    • Dutt, S., Gupta, A.K., Wunnemann, B., Yan, D. (2018). A long arid interlude in the Indian summer monsoon during ~4,350 to 3,450 cal. yr BP contemporaneous to displacement of the Indus valley civilization. Quaternary International, vol. 483, pp. 83-92.
    • Sah, N., Kumar, M., Upadhyay, R., Dutt, S. (2018). Hill slope instability of Nainital City, Kumaun Lesser Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 10, pp. 280-289.
    2017
    • Mukherjee, P.K., Singhal, S., Adlakha, V., Rai, S.K., Dutt, S., Kharya, A., Gupta, A.K. (2017). In situ U-Pb zircon micro-geochronology of MCT zone rocks in the Lesser Himalaya using LA-MC-ICPMS technique. Current Science, Vol. 112, pp. 802-810.
    2015
    • Dutt, S., Gupta, A.K., Clemens, S.C., Cheng, H., Singh, R.K., Kathayat, G., Edwards, R.L. (2015). Abrupt changes in Indian summer monsoon strength during 33,800 to 5500 years B.P., Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 42, pp. 5526-5532
    (c) Chapter in Books
    • Panda, S., Sengupta, D., Sagwal, S., Shahrukh, Mohd., Mandal, S., Kumar, A., Dutt, S. Review on Catastrophic Flood Distribution and Assessment in Different Climatic Zones of the Himalaya. Proceedings of AES symposium (Accepted).
    • Kumar, R., Devrani, R., Dangwal, A., Deshmukh, B., Dutt, S. (2022). Extreme Hydrological Event‐Induced Temporal Variation in Soil Erosion of the Assiganga River Basin, NW Himalaya. In:Advances in Remote Sensing Technology and the Three Poles, 230-246, Wiley.
    • Gupta, A.K., Dutt, S., Das, M., Singh, R.K. (2021). Teleconnection between Arctic climate and tropical Indian monsoon.In:Understanding Present and Past Arctic Environments, 117-136, Elsevier
    • Gupta, A. K., Prakasam, M., Dutt, S., Clift, P.D., Yadav, R.R. (2020). Evolution and development of the Indian Monsoon. In: Geodynamics of the Indian Plate: Evolutionary Perspectives,499-535, Springer.

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