Publications
Heaney AK, Camponuri SK, Head JR, Collender P, Sondermeyer-Cooksey G, Yu AT, Jain S, Bhattachan A, Taylor J, Remais JV (2024). Coccidioidomycosis seasonality in California: a longitudinal surveillance study of the climate determinants and spatiotemporal variability of seasonal dynamics, 2000-2021. Lancet Regional Health – Americas, In Press.
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Press coverage: UC Berkeley, ScienceBlog
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Phillips S, Jones I, Sondermeyer-Cooksey G, Yu AT, Heaney AK, Zhou B, Bhattachan A, Weaver AK, Campo SK, Mgbara W, Wagner R, Taylor J, Lettenmaier DP, Okin GS, Jain S, Vugia D, Remais JV, Head JR (2023). Association between wildfires and coccidioidomycosis incidence in California, 2000 - 2018: a synthetic control analysis. Environmental Epidemiology, https://doi.org/10.1097/EE9.0000000000000254.
Payne SAR, Okin GS, Bhattachan A, Fischella MR (2023). The two faces of Janus: processes can be both exogenous forcings and endogenous feedbacks with wind as a case study. Ecology, 104(4): e3998. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3998.
Head JR, Sondermeyer-Cooksey G, Heaney AK, Yu AT, Jones I, Bhattachan A, Campo S, Wagner R, Mgbara W, Mgbara W, Philips S, Keeney N, Taylor J, Eisen EA, Lettenmaier DP, Hubbard A, Okin GS, Vugia D, Jain S, Remais JV (2022). Drought in Western United States displaces and amplifies coccidioidomycosis, an emerging fungal disease: a longitudinal surveillance study incidence in California. Lancet Planetary Health, 6, 10, e793 - e803, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00202-9.
Press coverage: UC Berkeley
Bhattachan A, Tatlhego M, Webb NP, Dintwe K, D'Odorico P, Okin GS (2022). Evaluation of dust production efficiencies in sandy sediments. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 1 - 9, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5312.
Bhattachan A, Skaff NK, Irish AM, Vimal S, Remais JV, Lettenmaier DP (2021). Outdoor water-use restrictions during recent drought suppressed disease vector abundance in Southern California. Environmental Science and Technology, 55, 1, 478-487. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c05857
Press coverage: UCLA Newsroom, The Guardian
Tatlhego M, Bhattachan A, Okin GS, D’Odorico P (2020). Mapping areas of the Southern Ocean where productivity likely depends on dust-delivered iron. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, doi: 10.1029/2019JD030926
D’Odorico P, Rosa L, Bhattachan A, Okin GS (2019) Desertification and Land Degradation. In D’Odorico P, Porporato A, and Runyan CW (Editors), Dryland Ecohydrology (2019), Springer, Dordrecht. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-23269-6\_21
Bhattachan A, Okin GS, Zhang J, Vimal S, Lettenmaier DP (2019). Characterizing the role of wind and dust in traffic accidents in California. GeoHealth, doi: 10.1029/2019GH000212
Bhattachan A, Jurjonas MD, Morris PR, Smart LS, Taillie PJ, Emanuel RE, Seekamp EL (2019). Linking residential saltwater intrusion risk perceptions to physical exposure of climate change impacts in rural communities of North Carolina. Natural Hazards, doi: 10.1007/s11069-019-03706-0
Press coverage: TheScientist
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Webb NP, Okin GS, Bhattachan A, D’Odorico P, Dintwe K, Tatlhego M (2019). Ecosystem dynamics and aeolian sediment transport in the southern Kalahari. African Journal of Ecology, doi: 10.1111/AJE.12700
Yu K, D’Odorico P, Collins SC, Carr DE, Porporato A, Wang L, Gilhooly WP, Bhattachan A, Hartzell S, Bartlett MS, Yin J, Anderegg WRL, He Y, Li W, Tatlhego M, Fuentes JD (2019). The competitive advantage of a constitutive CAM species over C4 grass species under drought and CO2 enrichment. Ecosphere, 10(5), doi: e0271.10.1002/ecs2.2721
Bhattachan A, Jurjonas MD, Moody A, Morris PR, Sanchez GM, Smart LS, Taillie PJ, Emanuel RE, Seekamp EL (2018) Sea level rise impacts on rural coastal socio-ecological systems and the implications for decision making. Environmental Science and Policy, 90, 122-134, https://doi.org/10/1016/j.envsci.2018.10.006
Bhattachan A, Emanuel RE, Ardon M, Bendor TK, Bernhardt ES, Wright JP (2018) Evaluating the effects of climate and land-use changes on vulnerability of coastal landscapes to saltwater intrusion. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, 6(1):62, https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.316
Research highlighted on ESA's Frontiers of Ecology and the Environment: Link
Okin GS, Sala OE, Vivoni ER, Zhang J, Bhattachan A (2018) The interactive role of wind and water in functioning drylands: what does the future hold? BioScience, 68(9), 670-677, doi: 10.1093/biosci/biy067.
Davis KF, Bhattachan A, D’Odorico P, Suweis S (2018) A universal model for predicting human migrations under climate change: examining future sea level rise in Bangladesh. Environmental Research Letters, 13, 064030, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aac4d4
Press coverage: Earth Institute, IOP
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Van Pelt RS, Baddock M, Zobeck T, D’Odorico P, Ravi S, Bhattachan A (2017) Total vertical sediment flux and PM10 emissions from disturbed Chihuahuan Desert surfaces. Geoderma, https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.geoderma.2017.01.031
Bhattachan A, Reche I, D’Odorico P (2016) Soluble ferrous iron (Fe(II)) enrichment in airborne dust. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 121, 10153-10160, doi: 10.1002/2016JD0250025
Yu K, D’Odorico P, Bhattachan A, Okin GS, Evan AT (2015) Dust-rainfall feedbacks in West-African Sahel. Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 7563-7571, doi: 10.1002/2015GL065533
O’Donnell FC, Caylor KK, Bhattachan A, Dintwe K, D’Odorico P, Okin GS (2015). A quantitative description of the interspecies diversity of belowground structure in savanna woody plants. Ecosphere, 6(9): 154, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00310.1
Bhattachan A, Wang L, Miller MF, Licht K, D’Odorico P (2015). Antarctica’s Dry Valleys: a potential source of iron to the Southern Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 1912-1918, doi: 10.1002/2015GL063419
Bhattachan A, D’Odorico P, Okin GS (2015). Biogeochemistry of dust sources in Southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments, 117, 18-27, doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2015.02.013
Dintwe K, Okin GS, D’Odorico P, Hrast T, Mladenov N, Handorean A, Bhattachan A, Caylor KK (2014). Soil organic carbon and total nitrogen pools in the Kalahari: potential impacts of climate change. Plant and Soil, doi: 10.1007/s11104-014-2292-5
Bhattachan A, D’Odorico P, Dintwe K, Okin GS, Collins SC (2014). Resilience and recovery potential of duneland vegetation in the southern Kalahari. Ecosphere, 5(1):2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES13-00268.1
Additional coverage: ESA Blog, NSF spotlight
Bhattachan A, D’Odorico P (2014). Can land-use intensification in the Mallee, Australia increase the supply of soluble iron to the Southern Ocean? Scientific Reports, 4, 6009, doi:10.1038/srep06009
Meyer T, D’Odorico P, Okin G, Shugart H, Caylor K, O’Donnell F, Bhattachan A, Dintwe K (2014) An analysis of structure: Biomass structure relationships for characteristic species of the western Kalahari, Botswana. African Journal of Ecology, 52(1), 20-29, doi: 10.1111/aje.12086
D’Odorico P, Bhattachan A, Davis KF, Ravi S, Runyan CW (2013) Global Desertification: Drivers and feedbacks. Advances in Water Resources, 51, 326-344, doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.01.013
Bhattachan A, D’Odorico P, Okin GS, Dintwe K (2013) Potential dust emissions from the southern Kalahari’s dunelands. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 118, 307-314, doi: 10.1002/jgrf.20043
Bhattachan A, Tatlhego M, Dintwe K, O’Donnell FC, Caylor KK, Okin GS, Perrot DO, Ringrose S, D’Odorico P (2012) Ecohydrologic controls on root biomass and depth in southern African savannas. PloS One, 7(3), e33996, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033996.
Bhattachan A, D’Odorico P, Baddock M, Zobeck T, Okin GS, Cassar N (2012) The Southern Kalahari: A potential new dust source in the southern hemisphere? Environmental Research Letters, 7 024001, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/024001
D’Odorico P, Bhattachan A (2012) Hydrologic variability in dryland regions: impacts on ecosystem dynamics and food security. Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society of London B, 367, 3145-3157. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0016.
D’Odorico P, Scanlon TM, Runyan CW, Abshire K, Barrett P, Bhattachan A, Coloso JJ, Erler A, Miller J, Mitchell N, Mobley J, Van Vleet D, Whitman E (2009) Dryland Ecohydrology: Research perspectives. Annals of Arid Zone, 48(3-4), 1-29.
Under review
Weaver AK, Keeney N, Head JR, Heaney AK, Campo SK, Collender P, Bhattachan A, Okin GS, Eisen EA, Sondermeyer-Cooksey G, Yu AT, Vugia D, Jain S, Balmes J, Taylor J, Remais JV, Strickland MJ (2023). Estimating the exposure-response relationship between fine mineral dust concentration and coccidioidomycosis incidence using speciated particulate matter data: A longitudinal surveillance study.
Head JR, Campo S, Weaver M, Montoya L, Lee E, Radosevich M, Jones I, Wagner R, Bhattachan A, Campbell G, Keeney N, Collender P, Heaney A, Colvin K, Larios L, Bean W, Taylor J, Remais JV (2023). Small mammals and their burrows shape the distribution of Coccidioides in soils: a long-term ecological experiment.