Dr. Siddhartha Mitra

Professor

GRAHAM 209

252 328 6611

mitras@ecu.edu

Website: https://myweb.ecu.edu/mitras/index.html

Education

  • D. Virginia Institute of Marine Science (Marine Science, 1997)
  • S. New Jersey Institute of Technology (Chemistry and Environmental Science, 1991)
  • S. Lehigh University (Mechanical Engineering, 1988)

 

Research Interests

Dr. Mitra’s lab uses organic molecules in the environment to tell stories. Sometimes those stories revolve around understanding water quality at the coast; sometimes, the stories address how historical climate change may have affected wildfires. His lab was funded recently by the National Science Foundation to better understand how atmospheric soot may have contributed to the extinction of species across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary ~66 million years ago.

New Video of Our Recent NSF-Funded Project: https://spark.adobe.com/video/UoIFOafxAH6hL

Recent Publications (*graduate advisees; **undergraduate advisees)

 

  1. Bunch, T. E., LeCompte, M.A., Adedeji, V.A., Wittke, J. H., Burleigh, D.T., Hermes, R.E., Mooney, C., Batchelor, D., Wolbach, W.S., Kathan, J., Kletetschka, G., Patterson, M.C. L., Swindel, E.C., Witwer, T., Howard, G.A., Mitra, S. et al. 2021. A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea. Sci Rep 11, 18632. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97778-3
  2. Bostick, K.W., Zimmerman, A.R., Goranov, A.I., Mitra, S., Hatcher, P.G., Wozniak, A.S. 2021. Biolability of Fresh and Photodegraded Pyrogenic Dissolved Organic Matter From Laboratory‐Prepared Chars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005981.
  3. Goranov, A.I., Wozniak, A.S., Bostick, K.W., Zimmerman, A.R., Mitra, S., Hatcher, P.G. 2020. Photochemistry after fire: Structural transformations of pyrogenic dissolved organic matter elucidated by advanced analytical techniques. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 290: 271-292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.08.030.
  4. Wozniak, A.S., Goranov, A.I., Mitra, S., Bostick, K.W., Zimmerman, A.R., Schleshinger, D.R., Myneni, S., Hatcher, P.G. 2020. Molecular heterogeneity in pyrogenic dissolved organic matter from a thermal series of oak and grass chars. Organic Geochemistry, 148: 104065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.1040.
  5. Bostick, K.W., Zimmerman, A.R., Goranov, A.I., Mitra, S., Hatcher, P.G., Wozniak, A.S. 2020. Photolability of pyrogenic dissolved organic matter from a thermal series of laboratory-prepared chars. Science of the Total Environment, 724. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138198.
  6. Bostick, K.W., Zimmerman, A.R., Goranov, A., Mitra, S., Hatcher, P.G., Wozniak, A.S. Biolability of Fresh and Photodegraded Pyrogenic Dissolved Organic Matter from Laboratory-Prepared Chars. 2020. Earth and Space Science Open Archive.
  7. Moore, C.R., Brooks, M.J., Goodyear, A.C., Ferguson, T.A., Perrotti, A.G., Mitra, S., Listecki, A.M.**, King, B.C.**, Mallinson, D., and 9 others. 2019. Sediment Cores from White Pond, South Carolina, contain a Platinum Anomaly, Pyrogenic Carbon Peak, and Coprophilous Spore Decline at 12.8 ka. Nature Scientific Reports,15121, doi:10.1038/s41598-019-51552-8.
  8. Mulligan, R.P., Mallinson, D.J., Clunies, G. J., Rey, A., Culver, S.J., Zaremba, N., Leorri, E., Mitra, S. 2019. Estuarine responses to long-term changes in inlets, morphology and sea-level rise. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014732.
  9. Degan, J., Hicks, M., Mitra, S., Webb, P., & Lichtenwalner, C. S. 2019. Dynamic Air-Sea Interactions. OOI Data Labs Collection.
  10. Collier, D.N., Robinson, A., Mitra, S. et al. 2019. Tapping Out: Influence of Organoleptic and Perceived Health Risks on Bottled Versus Municipal Tap Water Consumption Among Obese, Low Socioeconomic Status Pediatric Patients. Exposure and Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12403-019-00302-2.
  11. Mazow, L., Mitra, S., Kimmel, D., Grieve, S. 2018. Extraction and Analysis of Total Lipids in Late Iron Age Bathshaped basins from the Levant as a Means of Assessing Vessel Function. Journal of Archeological Science Reports, 22: 193-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.09.015.
  12. Mitra, S., Benfield, B.* 2018. Ibuprofen Sorption to Coastal Plain Soils. Journal of Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 229: 295-307.
  13. Bostick, K.W., Zimmerman, A.R., Hatcher, P., Mitra, S., and A.S. Wozniak. Production, Composition, and Detection of Pyrogenic Dissolved Organic Matter from Various Biochars and Environmentally-aged Charcoals. 2018. Frontiers in Earth Science: Biogeoscience, v6. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2018.00043.
  14. Leorri, E., Zimmerman, A., Mitra, S., Christian, R., Fatela, F., Mallinson, D. 2018. Refractory organic matter in coastal salt marshes – effect on C sequestration calculations. Science of the Total Environment, 633:391-398. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.120.
  15. Wolbach, W., Ballard, J., Mayewski, Pl, Adedeji, V., Bunch, T., Firestones, R., French, T., Howard, G., Israde-Alcantara, I., Johnson, J., Kimbel, D., Kinzie, C., Kubatov, A., Kletetschka, G., LeCompte, M., Mahaney, W., Melott, A., Mitra, S., Maiorana-Boutilier**, A., and 8 others. 2018a. Extraordinary biomass-burning episode and impact winter triggered by the Younger Dryas cosmic impact ~12,800 years ago; Part 1: Ice cores and glaciers. The Journal of Geology, 126: 165-184. DOI: 10.1086/695703.
  16. Wolbach, W., Ballard, J., Mayewski, Pl, Adedeji, V., Bunch, T., Firestones, R., French, T., Howard, G., Israde-Alcantara, I., Johnson, J., Kimbel, D., Kinzie, C., Kubatov, A., Kletetschka, G., LeCompte, M., Mahaney, W., Melott, A., Mitra, S., Maiorana-Boutilier**, A., and 8 others. 2018b. Extraordinary biomass-burning episode and impact winter triggered by the Younger Dryas cosmic impact ~12,800 years ago; Part 2: Lake, marine, and terrestrial sediments. The Journal of Geology, 126: 185-205. DOI: 10.1086/695704.
  17. Mallinson, D., Culver, S., Leorri, E., Mitra, S., Mulligan, R., Riggs, S. 2018. Barrier island and estuary co-evolution in response to Holocene climate and sea-level change: Pamlico Sound and the Outer Banks Barrier Islands, North Carolina, USA. Chapter 3, pp.91-120. Barrier Island Dynamics, edited by Laura J. Moore, Brad Murray, Springer.
  18. Mitra, S., Osburn, C.L., Wozniak, A.S. 2017. A preliminary assessment of fossil fuel and terrigenous influences to rainwater organic matter in summertime in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Aquatic Geochemistry, DOI: 10.1007/s10498-017-9319-5.
  19. Zimmerman, A.R., Mitra, S. 2017. Trial by Fire: On the terminology and methods used in pyrogenic organic matter research. Frontiers in Environmental Sciences. v5. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2017.00095.
  20. Zaremba, N., Mallinson, D., Leorri, E., Culver, S., Riggs, S., Mulligan, R., Horsman, E., Mitra, S. 2016. Controls on the stratigraphic framework and paleoenvironmental change within a Holocene estuarine system: Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, USA. Marine Geology, 379: 109-123. DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2016.04.012.

21.          Mazow, L.B., Mitra, S., Grieve, S.G., Carman, S.L.*, Herrmann, V.R. 2016. Extraction and Analysis of Total Lipids in Reference Materials and from Soil Particles in a Bath-shaped Vessel from Zincirli, Ancient Sam’al, Turkey. Journal of Archaeological Science, 8: 63-69.

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