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Pollution Research and Innovations in Terrestrial and Aquatic Health and Vulnerability

Journal Publications

  • 2025
    • Kelliher JM, Mirzayi C, Bordenstein SR, Oliver A, Kellogg CA, Hatcher EL, Berg M, Baldrian P, Aljumaah M, Miller CM, Mungall C. STREAMS guidelines: standards for technical reporting in environmental and host-associated microbiome studies. Nature Microbiology. (2025) Dec 1:1-0. (Avishek Dutta (as part of the STREAM Consortium). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-02186-2
    • Mukhopadhyay A, Banerjee S, Kumar A, Jha S, Duttagupta S, Ghosh S, Mohapatra B, Bhattacharyya P, Mukherjee A. Can Contaminated Irrigation Water Drive Pharmaceutical Uptake and Transformation in Rice Paddy? Unveiling Pathways, Natural Attenuation Mechanisms, and Health Risk Assessments. ACS ES&T Water. (2025) Dec 1.
    • Basapuram G, Duttagupta S, Dutta A. Pesticides impact microbial communities in the freshwater ecosystem: implications on biogeochemical cycles. Journal of Hazardous Materials. (2025) Nov 7:140403.
    • Basapuram, G., Dutta, A., Duttagupta, S. Biotransformation of Pesticides across Biological Systems: Molecular Mechanisms, Omics Insights, and Biotechnological Advances for Environmental Sustainability (2025), ACS Omega. 10.1021/acsomega.5c06484
    • Stamm, G., Bhattacharjee, A., Basapuram, G., Dutta, A., Duttagupta, S. Molecular and Ionic Signatures in Rainwater: Unveiling Sources of Atmospheric Pollution. Environments (2025), 12, 351. https://doi.org/10.3390/environments12100351
    • Pillay, K., Basapuram, G., Duttagupta, S., and Dutta, A. Integrative genomics and metabolic profiling of Rossellomorea sp. DL-A to understand the possible malathion degradation pathway. Letters in Applied Microbiology. (2025) Jul 29, p.ovaf103.
    • Stamm, G., Basapuram, G., Duttagupta, S., Dutta, A. Anion-mediated pathways in organophosphate degradation in the Oconee River watershed in Georgia. Emerging Contaminants. (2025) Jul 6, 100542.
    • Pillay, K., Duttagupta, S., Basapuram, G. and Dutta, A. Draft genome sequence of Rossellomorea marisflavi DL-A, a malathion-degrading bacterium. Microbiology Resource Announcements (2025), pp.e00220-25.
    • Mohapatra, B., Dutta, A., Phale, P. S., & Kumar, U. (2025). Xenobiotics and emerging contaminants in ecosystems: innovative geo-microbial strategies for prevention, efficient clean-up and biosafety. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 13, 1619769.
    • Connors, E., Gallagher, K. L., Dutta, A., Oliver, M., & Bowman, J. S. (2025). Suspended detrital particles support a distinct microbial ecosystem in Palmer Canyon, Antarctica, a coastal biological hotspot. Polar Biology, 48(2), 62.
    • Duttagupta, S., Basapuram, G., Cottrell, W., Dutta, A. Landuse and land cover shape organic contaminants distribution in the Oconee River watershed in Georgia, npj Emerging Contaminants (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44454-025-00002-4
    • Pandey, S.; Duttagupta, S.; Dutta, A. Machine Learning Models for Mapping Groundwater Pollution Risk: Advancing Water Security and Sustainable Development Goals in Georgia, USA. Water (2025), 17, 879.
    • Weng, M.M., Klempay, B., Bowman, J.S., Fisher, L., Camplong, C., Doran, P., Rundell, S., Glass, J.B., Dutta, A., Pontefract, A., Bartlett, D., Schmidt, B., Johnson, S.S., and the Oceans Across Space and Time Team (2025) Light cues drive community-wide transcriptional shifts in the hypersaline South Bay Salt Works Commun Biol 8, 450 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07855-w
  • 2024
    • Connors, E., Dutta, A., Trinh, R., Erazo, N., Dasarathy, S., Ducklow, H., Weissman, J.L., Yeh, Y-C  Schofield, O., Steinberg, D., Fuhrman, J., Bowman, J.S. (2024) Microbial community composition predicts bacterial production across ocean ecosystems, The ISME Journal, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2024, wrae158, https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrae158 
    • Basapuram, G., Duttagupta, S., Dutta, A., 2024. Detection and Screening of Organic Contaminants in A Riverine System of Georgia using Non-Targeted Analysis. Environments, 11, 89. https://doi.org/10.3390/environments11050089
    • Duttagupta, S., Nynas, K., Richardot, W., Salam, S.B., Pennington, M., Wong, J., Van De Werfhorst, L.C., Dodder, N.G., Novotny, T., Sant, K. and Holden, P.A. Influence of tobacco product wastes in a protected coastal reserve adjacent to urbanization. Marine Pollution Bulletin (2024) 199, p.115929.
  • 2023
    • Dutta, A., Connors, E., Trinh, R., Erazo, N., Dasarathy, S., Ducklow, H.W., Steinberg, D.K., Schofield, O.M. and Bowman, J.S., (2023). Depth drives the distribution of microbial ecological functions in the coastal western Antarctic Peninsula. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, p.1494.
  • 2022
    • Dutta, A., Goldman, T., Keating, J., Burke, E., Williamson, N., Dirmeier, R., & Bowman, J. S. (2022). Machine learning predicts biogeochemistry from microbial community structure in a complex model system. Microbiology Spectrum. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.01909-21
    • Sarkar, S., Mukherjee, A., Chakraborty, M., Quamar, M.T., Duttagupta, S. and Bhattacharya, A. Prediction of elevated groundwater fluoride across India using multi-model approach: insights on the influence of geologic and environmental factors. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. (2022) pp.1-16.
    • Sarkar, S., Mukherjee, A., Senapati, B. and Duttagupta, S. Predicting Potential Climate Change Impacts on Groundwater Nitrate Pollution and Risk in an Intensely Cultivated Area of South Asia. ACS Environmental Au. (2022).
    • Dey, U., Sarkar, S., Duttagupta, S., Bhattacharya, A., Das, K., Saha, S., Mukherjee, A. Influence of hydrology and sanitation on groundwater coliform contamination in parts of Western Bengal Basin: Implication to safe drinking water. Frontiers in Water. (2022):84.
    • Bhattacharya, A., Sahu, S., Sahu, N., Das, A., Das, C., John, V., Sarkar, S., Duttagupta, S, Bhattacharya, J., Mukherjee, A., Ghosal, P.S. Influence of mass-awareness campaign on community behavior pattern changes for safe drinking water availability in a groundwater arsenic-affected area of South Asia. Groundwater for Sustainable Development. (2022) 20:100766.
    • Sharifi-Yazdi, M., Tavakoli, V., Salehi-Noparvar, S., Vaezi, A., Naderi Beni, A., Nazemi, M., Duttagupta, S., Routh, J. Influence of the Late Quaternary climate on sedimentology of the Jazmurian Playa, SE Iran. Journal of Paleolimnology. (2022) 2:1-9.
    • Mukhopadhyay, A., Duttagupta, S., Mukherjee, A. Emerging Organic Contaminants in Global Community Drinking Water Sources and Supply: A Review of Occurrences, Processes, and Removal. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. (2022) 16:107560.
    • Van De Werfhorst L.C., Jerde C.L., Beutel M.W., Brooks A., Butsic V., Duttagupta, S., Gilmore M.E., Harmon T.C., Hart S.C., Hoh E., Iancu L., Tobacco and Cannabis Debris Survey Protocol. (2022).
  • 2021
    • Erazo, N. G., Dutta, A., & Bowman, J. S. (2021). From microbial community structure to metabolic inference using paprica. STAR Protocols, 2(4), 101005.
    • Sahu, R., Kazy, S., Bose, H., Mandal, S., Dutta, A., Saha, A., Roy, S., Duttagupta, S., Mukherjee, A., Sar, P. (2021) Microbial diversity and function in crystalline basement beneath the Deccan Traps explored in a 3-km borehole at Koyna, western India. Environmental microbiology. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.15867
    • Dutta, A., Valle, F., Goldman, T., Keating, J., Burke, E., Williamson, N., Dirmeier, R., & Bowman, J. S. (2021). Detection of sulfate-reducing bacteria as an indicator for successful mitigation of sulfide production. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, AEM 01748-21. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01748-21
    • Pal, S., Dutta, A., Sarkar, J., Roy, A., Sar, P., & Kazy, S. K. (2021) Exploring the diversity and hydrocarbon bioremediation potential of microbial community in the waste sludge of Duliajan oil field, Assam, India.  Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 28, 50074–50093.
    • Duttagupta, S.*, Bhanja, S.N.*, Dutta, A.*, Sarkar, S.*, Chakraborty, M., Ghosh, A., Mondal, D., & Mukherjee, A.* (2021) Impact of Covid-19 Lockdown on Availability of Drinking Water in the Arsenic-Affected Ganges River Basin. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 2832.(* contributed equally)
    • Klempay, B., Arandia-Gorostidi, N., Dekas, A. E., Bartlett, D. H., Carr, C. E., Doran, P. T., Dutta,  A. … & Bowman, J. S. (2021) Microbial diversity and activity in Southern California salterns and bitterns: analogues for remnant ocean worlds. Environmental microbiology. 10.1111/1462-2920.15499, 23, 7, (3335-3344)
    • Sarkar, S., Mukherjee, A., Duttagupta, S., Bhanja, S.N., Bhattacharya, A., Chakraborty, S. Vulnerability of groundwater from elevated nitrate pollution across India: Insights from spatio-temporal patterns using large-scale monitoring data. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. (2021) 1;243:103895.
    • Bhattacharya, A., Sahu, S., Telu, V., Duttagupta, S., Sarkar, S., Bhattacharya, J., Mukherjee, A., Ghosal, P.S. Neural Network and Random Forest-Based Analyses of the Performance of Community Drinking Water Arsenic Treatment Plants. Water. (2021)13(24):3507.
    • Beutel, M.W., Harmon, T.C., Novotny, T.E., Mock, J., Gilmore, M.E., Hart, S.C., Traina, S., Duttagupta, S., Brooks, A., Jerde, C.L., Hoh, E. A Review of Environmental Pollution from the Use and Disposal of Cigarettes and Electronic Cigarettes: Contaminants, Sources, and Impacts. Sustainability, (2021) 13:12994.
    • Mukherjee, A., Sarkar, S., Chakraborty, M., Duttagupta, S., Bhattacharya, A., Saha, D., Bhattacharya, P., Mitra, A. and Gupta, S. Occurrence, predictors and hazards of elevated groundwater arsenic across India through field observations and regional-scale AI-based modeling. Science of The Total Environment (2021) 759: 143511.
  • 2020
    • Duttagupta, S., Mukherjee, A., Das, K., Dutta, A., Bhattacharya, J., and Bhattacharya, A. Groundwater vulnerability to pesticide pollution assessment in the alluvial aquifer of Western Bengal basin, India using overlay and index method. Geochemistry. (2020) 125601.
    • Duttagupta, S., Mukherjee, A., Bhanja, S.N., Chattopadhyay, S., Sarkar, S., Das, K., Chakraborty, S. and Mondal, D., 2020. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal for Clean Water in India: Influence of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors on Groundwater Microbial Pollution. Environmental Management, (2020) 1-14.
    • Duttagupta, S., Mukherjee, A., Bhattacharya, A., and Bhattacharya, J. Wide exposure of persistent organic pollutants (PoPs) in natural waters and sediments of the densely populated Western Bengal basin, India, Science of the Total Environment, (2020) 717:137187.
    • Dutta, A., Smith, B., Goldman, T., Walker, L., Streets, M., Eden, B., … & Bowman, J. S. (2020) Understanding microbial community dynamics in up-flow bioreactors to improve mitigation strategies for oil souring, Frontiers in microbiology, 11
    • Gupta, A., Dutta, A., Panigrahi, M. K., & Sar, P. (2020). Geomicrobiology of Mine Tailings from Malanjkhand Copper Project, India. Geomicrobiology Journal, 1-18.
    • Bose, H., Dutta, A., Roy, A., Gupta, A., Mukhopadhyay, S., Mohapatra, B., Sarkar, J., Roy, S., Kazy, S. K., & Sar, P. (2020). Microbial diversity of drilling fluids from 3000m deep Koyna pilot borehole provides insights into the deep biosphere of continental earth crust. Scientific Drilling, 27, 1-23
    • Das, K., Debnath, P., Duttagupta, S., Sarkar, S., Agrahari, S., Mukherjee, A. Implication of submarine groundwater discharge to coastal ecology of the Bay of Bengal. Journal of Earth System Science. (2020): 129(1):50.
  • 2019
    • Dutta, A., Peoples, L. M., Gupta, A., Bartlett, D. H., & Sar, P. (2019). Exploring the piezotolerant/piezophilic microbial community and genomic basis of piezotolerance within the deep subsurface Deccan traps. Extremophiles, 1-13.
    • Dutta, A., Sar, P., Sarkar, J., Dutta Gupta, S., Gupta, A., Bose, H., … & Roy, S. (2019). Archaeal communities in deep terrestrial subsurface underneath the Deccan traps, India. Frontiers in microbiology, 10, 1362.
    • Duttagupta, S., Bhattacharya, A., Mukherjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Bhanja, S.N., Sarkar, S., Malakar, P. and Bhattacharya, J., 2019. Groundwater faecal pollution observation in parts of Indo- Ganges–Brahmaputra River basin from in-situ measurements and satellite-based observations. Journal of Earth System Science. (2019): 128(3)-44.
    • Mukherjee, A., Duttagupta, S., Chattopadhyay, S., Bhanja, S.N., Bhattacharya, A., Chakraborty, S., Sarkar, S., Ghosh, T., Bhattacharya, J. and Sahu, S., 2019. Impact of sanitation and socio-economy on groundwater fecal pollution and human health towards achieving sustainable development goals across India from ground-observations and satellite-derived nightlight. Scientific Reports, 9(1), (2019): 1-11.
  • 2018
    • Dutta, A, Duttagupta, S., Gupta, A., Sarkar, J., Roy, S., Mukherjee, A., and Sar, P. Exploration of deep terrestrial subsurface microbiome in Late Cretaceous Deccan traps and underlying Archean basement, India. Scientific Reports (2018): 8(1), 17459.
    • Gupta, A., Dutta, A., Sarkar, J., Panigrahi, M. K., & Sar, P.  (2018). Low-abundance members of the Firmicutes facilitate bioremediation of soils impacted by highly acidic mine drainage from the Malanjkhand Copper Project, India. Frontiers in Microbiology 9, 2882.
    • Roy, A., Sar, P, Sarkar, J., Dutta, A., Sarkar, P., Gupta, A., Mohapatra, B., Pal, S., & Kazy, S. K. (2018). Petroleum hydrocarbon rich oil refinery sludge of North-East India harbours anaerobic, fermentative, sulfate-reducing, syntrophic and methanogenic microbial populations. BMC Microbiology, 18,151.
    • Roy, A., Dutta, A., Pal, S., Gupta, A., Sarkar, J., Chatterjee, A., … & Kazy, S. K. (2018). Biostimulation and bioaugmentation of native microbial community accelerated bioremediation of oil refinery sludge. Bioresource Technology, 253, 22-32.
  • 2017
    • Dutta, A.*, Ghosh, S.*, Choudhury, J. D., Mahansaria, R., Roy, M., Ghosh, A. K., … & Mukherjee, J. (2017). Isolation of indigenous Staphylococcus sciuri from chromium-contaminated paddy field and its application for reduction of Cr (VI) in rice plants cultivated in pots. Bioremediation Journal, 21(1), 30-37. (* contributed equally)
    • Gupta, A., Dutta, A., Sarkar, J., Paul, D., Panigrahi, M. K., & Sar, P. (2017). Metagenomic exploration of microbial community in mine tailings of Malanjkhand copper project, India. Genomics Data, 12, 11-13.
  • 2016
    • Sarkar, J., Kazy, S. K., Gupta, A., Dutta, A., Mohapatra, B., Roy, A., … & Sar, P. (2016). Biostimulation of indigenous microbial community for bioremediation of petroleum refinery sludge. Frontiers in Microbiology, 7, 1407.
    • Sorensen, J. P. R., Sadhu, A., Sampath, G., Sugden, S., Duttagupta, S., Lapworth, D.J., Marchant, B.P., Pedley, S. Are sanitation interventions a threat to drinking water supplies in rural India? An application of tryptophan-like fluorescence. Water Research (2016), 88: 923-932.
  • 2011
    • Patel, M., Dutta, A., & Huang, H. (2011). A selective adenosine sensor derived from a triplex DNA aptamer. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 400(9), 3035-3040.

Book Chapter

Duttagupta S. Water: the key to sanitation (SDG 6.2). In Water Matters 2024 Jan 1 (pp. 69-76). Elsevier.

Duttagupta, S., Mukherjee, A., Bhattacharya, J., and Bhattacharya, A. An Overview of Agricultural Pollutants and Organic Contaminants in Groundwater of India. In Groundwater of South Asia (2018): 247-255, Springer, Singapore.

Sar, P., Dutta, A., Bose, H., Mandal, S., & Kazy, S. K. (2019). Deep Biosphere: Microbiome of the Deep Terrestrial Subsurface. In Microbial Diversity in Ecosystem Sustainability and Biotechnological Applications (pp. 225-265). Springer, Singapore.