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Abinash Bhattachan

Assistant Professor

California State University East Bay

Welcome to the Climate Health Interactions Lab (CHIL) at Cal State East Bay in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Before joining CSUEB, I was a researcher in the Department of Geography at UCLA (2017-2020). I worked with Greg Okin and Dennis Lettenmaier on a project focused on studying the effects of climate variability on infectious diseases (West Nile virus and Valley Fever) in California.

Please visit our research page to learn more about our work. We currently have opportunities for motivated undergraduate and graduate students in our research group. More information about the department’s MS program is available here.

Interests

  • Aeolian Processes
  • Air Quality
  • Coastal Change
  • Human-environment interactions

Education

  • PhD, Environmental Science, 2013

    University of Virginia

  • MS, Environmental Science, 2008

    Indiana University Bloomington

  • BS, Watershed Science, 2006

    Utah State University

Team

Research Interests

Drought and Human Health

I arrived at UCLA in late 2017 to work on a project funded by the University of California, Office of the President (UCOP) through its …

Southern Hemisphere Dust

My dissertation research (2009-2013) explored the potential of the Southern Kalahari as a future dust source. Our primary motivation …

Vulnerability of coastal landscapes to SLR

I was fortunate to work with an interdisciplinary team of reseachers from NC State University and Duke University on a NSF funded …

Publications

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Outdoor residential water use restrictions during recent drought suppressed disease vector abundance in Southern California

Abinash Bhattachan, Nicholas K. Skaff, Amanda M. Irish, Solomon Vimal, Justin V. Remais, Dennis P. Lettenmaier
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Mapping areas of the Southern Ocean where productivity likely depends on dust‐delivered iron

Mokganedi Tatlhego, Abinash Bhattachan, Gregory S. Okin, Paolo D’Odorico
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Desertification and Land Degradation

Paolo D’Odorico, Lorenzo Rosa, Abinash Bhattachan, Gregory S. Okin
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