Abhishek Chatterjee

Dr. Abhishek Chatterjee is an expert on carbon cycle science, greenhouse gases, Earth system models and utilization of large-scale data for understanding and quantifying carbon-climate feedbacks. He is currently the Project Scientist for NASA’s OCO-3 mission and Deputy Project Scientist for the OCO-2 mission. Dr. Chatterjee's research primarily focuses on understanding the variability of sources and sinks of carbon dioxide and methane, characterizing the natural and human-driven processes that govern them and predicting their response to future patterns of human society and demographics. Dr. Chatterjee is part of multiple NASA mission and science Teams, including OCO Science Team, Carbon Monitoring System Science Team and the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) Science Team. He was a chapter co-lead for the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2) that was published in 2018 and a chapter author on the Climate Trends chapter in the 5th National Climate Assessment (NCA5). He is also one of the lead authors for the Third Decadal U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan (currently in preparation, expected completion in 2026). Dr. Chatterjee is also a significant contributor to various international initiatives, including the Global Carbon Project (GCP) REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes, the World Meteorological Organization and the World Climate Research Programme.