Tripti Bhattacharya

Tripti Bhattacharya is the Thonis Family Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Syracuse University. Her research won the Denise Gaudreau Award for Excellence in Quaternary Studies, from the American Quaternary Association in 2014.

She trained as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Arizona with Jessica Tierney.

Career Bhattacharya joined Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences as an assistant professor in 2018.

She works on the relationship between ancient regional rainfall and global climate change. Her work creates climate models using geochemical and biological traces left by past climates (proxies). Her research on the Pliocene, a period with similar greenhouse gas levels to those in today's atmosphere, is part of the 2nd Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP2). She has created a framework to interpret ancient sea surface temperature.

Her research on regional rainfall and climate change was cited in the United Nations' 2022 climate change report.

Service Bhattacharya is a member of the American Geophysical Union, and a board member of her specialty group in the Association of American Geographers, and has worked to promote diversity in STEM fields.

In 2021, Bhattacharya was one of eight climate researcher at a workshop organized by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). The collaboration was to identify potential future paleoclimate research directions.

Awards Bhattacharya was awarded Syracuse University's Meredith Teaching Recognition Award in 2021.

In 2023, she was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER grant

In 2023 she was also awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship.