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UT San Antonio College of Sciences Research Symposium — April 10, 2026 • San Antonio, Texas

  • Indrayudh Mondal, E. Perez, S. Datta
    A Coupled Surface-Groundwater Interaction and 1-D Longitudinal Bacterial Transport Model for a Karst Aquifer Under Active Recharge Conditions
  • Damiana Assih, I. Mondal, S. Datta
    Temporal Changes in Trace Element Concentrations Across Major Texas Aquifers and Their Public Health Implications

GeoGulf2025 — April 6–9, 2025 • Nacogdoches, Texas

Saugata Datta: Invited Session Co-Chair and Speaker—Environmental Studies: Water Resources

2025 NCSS National Conference – June 23-25, 2025 • Virtual

  • Alec Graves, Hannah Martinez, Allison M. Veach, Saugata Datta
    Using a Smartphone Microscope to Measure Fungal Biomass Across Urban and Natural-Area Soils

Postdoctoral Appreciation Week Symposium — September 15, 2025 • San Antonio, Texas

  • Indrayudh Mondal, Saugata Datta
    E3Trace: An Integrated Approach to PFAS Source Tracking and Exposure Assessment Using Hydrologic Modeling and Wastewater Surveillance

IITJ-JJM Centre for Sustainable Drinking Water Capacity-Building Program — September 23, 2025 • Virtual

Ensuring the Sustainability of Water Sources for Improving Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) in Rural Areas

  • Saugata Datta (Invited Keynote Speaker)
    Sustainability of Water Resources in the Bengal Basin: Insights from Hyporheic Zone Research along the Meghna River, Bangladesh

GSA Connects 2025 — October 19–22, 2024 • San Antonio, Texas

Saugata Datta: Invited Session Speaker—Groundwater and Sustainability: Integrating Science, Technology, and Policy

AGU25 — December 11–19, 2025 • New Orleans, Louisiana

UTSA Advancement Council Meeting — January 22, 2024 • San Antonio, Texas

  • Ruben Olivares Jr.
    Freshwater Challenges Near the Texas-Mexico Border - Implications of Unmonitored Private Wells for Human Health

UTSA Graduate School Research Showcase — April 2, 2024 • San Antonio, Texas

  • Protik Banerjee
    Influence of Land Use on Soil Geochemistry and Bacterial Abundance, and their Subsequent Effects on Soil Phosphate Mobilization Across a Climatic Transect in Kansas

Dissertation Defense — April 3, 2024 • San Antonio, Texas

GeoGulf 2024 — April 10–12, 2024 • San Antonio, Texas

  • Ruben Olivares Jr., Pousali Pathak, Harshad V. Kulkarni, Saugata Datta
    Freshwater Challenges at the Texas-Mexico Border - Implications of Unmonitored Private Wells for Human Health

University of Texas System Inaugural Postdoctoral Symposium — September 16, 2024 • San Antonio, Texas

  • Pousali Pathak, Ruben Olivares Thomas S. Varner, Harshad V. Kulkarni, Guadalupe Carmona, Cynthia Lima, Steven Hollan, Saugata Datta
    Hydrogeochemical Assessment of Groundwater in Transboundary Aquifers along the US-Mexico Border and Drinking Water Quality Implications for Texas Colonias

GSA Connects 2024 — September 22–25, 2024 • Anaheim, California

9th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment (As2024) — October 20–24, 2024 • Bhubaneswar, India

Saugata Datta: Session Co-Chair—Parallel Session 1: Theme 1: Arsenic in natural environment
Saugata Datta: Session Co-Chair—Parallel Session 29: Theme 1: Arsenic in natural environment
Saugata Datta: As2024 International Scientific Committee member

  • Saugata Datta (Invited Keynote Speaker), Tom Varner
    Partitioning of Solid Phase Arsenic and Iron in Hyporheic Zone Sediments along the Meghna River

2024 ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting — November 10–13, 2024 • San Antonio, Texas

AGU24 — December 9–13, 2024 • Washington, DC

4th International Planetary Caves Conference — May 4–7, 2023 • Lanzarote, Spain

Saugata Datta: Member of Science Organizing Committee

Poster Session: Cave and Pit Crater Science and Exploration

Poster Session: Astrobiology: Secondary Mineral Deposits and Biosignatures
Harshad V. Kulkarni: Session Chair

RCRM 2023 – June 15-17, 2023 • Virtual

  • Tom Varner, Saptarshi Saha, Harshad V. Kulkarni, Shayani Roy, Won Kwak, Ananya Mukhopadhyay, M Bayani Cardenas, Peter S.K. Knappett, Saugata Datta
    Geomorphic Controls on Arsenic Mobility and Enrichment in the Hooghly Riverbanks, West Bengal, India
  • Thomas S. Varner, Deeksha Kumari, Anand Giri, Peter S. Knappett, M Bayani Cardenas, Saugata Datta, Harshad V. Kulkarni
    Occurrence of Elevated Sedimentary Iron and Arsenic along the Beas River and implications for Arsenic Enrichment in the Sutlej-Indus River Basin in the North-Western India

Goldschmidt2023 — July 9–14, 2023 • Lyon, France

UTSA Postdoctoral Research Symposium — September 22, 2023 • San Antonio, Texas

  • Pousali Pathak, Vineet Goswami, Deependra Singh, Kruttika Mohapatra, Gyana Ranjan Tripathy, Saugata Datta
    Assessing the Impact of Weathering, Lithology and Fluvial Transport on Molybdenum and its Isotopic Composition (δ 98Mo) in Indian River of Tropical Climate

GSA Connects 2023 — October 15–18, 2023 • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

AGU23 — December 11–15, 2023 • San Francisco, California

Goldschmidt2022 — July 10–15, 2022 • Honolulu, Hawaii

Saugata Datta: Theme Chair—Environmental Geochemistry: Contaminants, Geo-Engineering, and Human Health

GSA Connects 2022 — October 9–12, 2022 • Denver, Colorado

SIET International Workshop on Climate Change Impacts on Groundwater Quality and Health Issues: Review and Way Forward — April 22–23, 2021 • Virtual

  • Saugata Datta: Keynote Speaker

8th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment (As2021) — June 7–10, 2021 • Virtual

  • Saugata Datta: Keynote Speaker
  • Tom Varner

Goldschmidt2021 — July 4–9, 2021 • Virtual

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 18th Annual Meeting — August 1–6, 2021 • Virtual

  • Saugata Datta: Invited Speaker
    Geochemical Characterization of Sediments from an Arsenic Contaminated Aquifer in Proximity to a Potential Riverbank Permeable Natural Reactive Barrier in Bangladesh

International Microorganism Day 2021 — September 21, 2021 • Virtual

  • Saugata Datta: Invited Speaker

GSA Connects 2021 — October 10–13, 2021 • Portland, Oregon

Harshad Kulkarni: Topical Session Convenor

  • Ashley Aguilar, Saugata Datta, Yanmei Li, Harshad Kulkarni, Elizabeth Rampe
    Hydrothermal Influence on Arsenic and Fluoride in Groundwater of the Independence Basin Aquifer System in Central Mexico
  • Protik Banerjee, Harshad Vijay Kulkarni, Thiba Nagaraja, Suprem R Das, Saugata Datta
    Role of Organic Matter in Mobilization of Phosphorus in Tallgrass Prairie Soil
  • Saugata Datta, Harshad Vijay Kulkarni, Joshua Alexander Ford, Minkyu Park, Jennifer G Blank
    Using Analyses of Dissolved Organic Matter in Waters from Volcanic Caves to Identify Prevailing Microbial Metabolisms
  • Harshad Kulkarni, Shovon Barua, Md Golam Kibria, Prosun Bhattacharya, Saugata Datta
    Role of Dissolved Organic Matter in Controlling Growth of Coliform Bacteria in Arsenic Contaminated Groundwater of Southeast Bangladesh
  • Carole A Lakrout, Harshad Vijay Kulkarni, Saugata Datta, Charity M Phillips-Lander
    Habitability Influences Biosignatures in Mars Analog Lava Tubes
  • Katrina Poling, Harshad Kulkarni, Saugata Datta, Keisuke Ikehata, Yongli Gao
    Investigating Biological Methods for Improving Reverse Osmosis Based Desalination of Brackish Groundwater in Bexar County, Texas
  • Thomas Varner, Harshad Kulkarni, M Bayani Cardenas, Peter SK Knappett, Saugata Datta
    Contrasting Biogeochemical Controls on Arsenic Mobilization in Reducing Aquifer and a Potential Natural Reactive Barrier (NRB)

AGU 2021 — December 13–17, 2021 • New Orleans, Louisiana

  • Protik Banerjee
  • Saugata Datta
  • Harshad Kulkarni
  • Tom Varner

Data-Driven Discovery at the U.S.-Mexico Border — February 6, 2020 • Washington, DC

  • Saugata Datta

3rd International Planetary Caves Conference — February 18–21, 2020 • San Antonio, Texas

International E-conference on Recent Advances in Conservation and Utilization of Water — August 26–27, 2020 • Virtual

  • Saugata Datta

GSA 2020 Connects Online — October 26–30, 2020 • Virtual

  • Harshad Kulkarni
  • Katrina Poling
  • Tom Varner

2nd International Industrial and Environmental Toxicology Congress — November 18–22, 2020 • Virtual

  • Saugata Datta

SERDP-ESTCP Symposium 2020 — November 30–December 4, 2020 • Virtual

AGU20 — December 1–17, 2020 • Virtual

  • Felipe Becker
  • Reid Buskirk
  • Saugata Datta
  • Peter Knappett
  • Harshad Kulkarni

GSA South-Central Section 53rd Annual Meeting — March 25–27, 2019 • Manhattan, Kansas

AbSciCon — June 24–28, 2019 • Bellevue, Washington

  • Harshad Kulkarni

Goldschmidt 2019 — August 18–23, 2019 • Barcelona, Spain

GSA 2019 — September 22–25, 2019 • Phoenix, Arizona

  • Saugata Datta
  • Joshua Ford
  • Harshad Kulkarni

1st "Arsenic in the Pampean Plain" Meeting (As2019) — November 4–8, 2019 • Azul, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • Saugata Datta: Invited Speaker
    Arsenic-Biogeochemistry and Health Impacts-Research Update

Geochemistry and Hydrogeochemistry Course at University of Guanajuato — November 17–22, 2019 • Guanajuato, Mexico

  • Saugata Datta with Director Estefan Garcia Dobarganes and Professor Yanmei Li

2019 AGU Fall Meeting — December 9–13, 2019 • San Francisco, California

GSA South-Central Section 52nd Annual Meeting — March 12–13, 2018 • Little Rock, Arkansas

GSA North-Central Section 52nd Annual Meeting — April 16–17, 2018 • Ames, Iowa

As 2018: 7th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment — July 1–6, 2018 • Beijing, China

  • Saugata Datta: Keynote Speaker

Goldschmidt 2018 — August 12–17, 2018 • Boston, Massachusetts

2018 AGU Fall Meeting — December 10–14, 2018 • Washington, D.C.

Goldschmidt 2017 — August 13–18, 2017 • Paris, France

MedGeo 2017 — August 28-September 1, 2017 • Moscow, Russia

  • Saugata Datta, Numa Sosa

GSA 2017 — October 22–25, 2017 • Seattle, Washington

2017 AGU Fall Meeting — December 11–15, 2017 • New Orleans, Louisiana

European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016 — April 17–22, 2016 • Vienna, Austria

  • Peter Knappett

As 2016: 6th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment — June 19–23, 2016 • Stockholm, Sweden

  • Saugata Datta

Goldschmidt 2016 — June 26–July 1, 2016 • Yokohama, Japan

GSA 2016 — September 25–28, 2016 • Denver, Colorado

  • 15 abstracts

2016 AGU Fall Meeting — December 12–16, 2016 • San Francisco, California

Saugata Datta: Session Convenor—Biogeochemical Cycling of Oxyanion-Forming Metals and Metalloids in the Environment

Natural Resource and Environmental Sciences—Metals and Metalloids in Environment 2015 — Manhattan, Kansas

  • Saugata Datta

Kansas Citizens for Science—KSU Chapter Sigma Xi 2015 — Manhattan, Kansas

  • Saugata Datta

GSA South-Central Section 49th Annual Meeting — March 19–20, 2015 • Stillwater, Oklahoma

27th International Applied Geochemistry Symposium — April 20–24, 2015 • Tucson, Arizona

  • Saugata Datta

Goldschmidt 2015 — August 16–21, 2015 • Prague, Czechoslovakia

GSA 2015 — November 1–4, 2015 • Baltimore, Maryland

2015 AGU Fall Meeting — December 14–18, 2015 • San Francisco, California

As 2014: 5th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment — May 11–16, 2014 • Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • Saugata Datta
  • Golam Kibria

Goldschmidt 2014 — June 8–13, 2014 • Sacramento, California

59th Annual Midwest Groundwater Conference — September 30–October 2, 2014 • Lawrence, Kansas

  • Samuel Stone, Shovan Barua, Michael Vega, Chris Steincamp, Saugata Datta
    Nitrate in Groundwaters in Farmers Elevator Company Site, Sylvan Grove, Kansas

GSA 2014 — October 19–22, 2014 • Vancouver, British Columbia

2014 AGU Fall Meeting — December 15–19, 2014 • San Francisco, California

ICOBTE 2013 — June 16–20, 2013 • Athens, Georgia

  • Chad Hobson

MedGeo 2013 — August 25–29, 2013 • Arlington, Virginia

Goldschmidt 2013 — August 25–30, 2013 • Florence, Italy

GSA's 125th Anniversary Annual Meeting & Exposition — October 27–30, 2013 • Denver, Colorado

2013 AGU Fall Meeting — December 9–13, 2013 • San Francisco, California

  • Brent Campbell
  • Golam Kibria