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Overview

Avner Vengosh is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and specializes in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields, including Geochemistry and Petrology, Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, Mechanical Engineering, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics of their research focus include:

  • Coal and Its By-products
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Arsenic contamination and mitigation
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Extraction and Separation Processes

Vengosh has authored papers published in a variety of scientific journals. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Arsenic and other geogenic contaminants in global groundwater," 2024, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "A critical review on the occurrence and distribution of the uranium- and thorium-decay nuclides and their effect on the quality of groundwater," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Factors Controlling the Risks of Co-occurrence of the Redox-Sensitive Elements of Arsenic, Chromium, Vanadium, and Uranium in Groundwater from the Eastern United States," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "High Hexavalent Chromium Concentration in Groundwater from a Deep Aquifer in the Baiyangdian Basin of the North China Plain," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Recycling flowback water for hydraulic fracturing in Sichuan Basin, China: Implications for gas production, water footprint, and water quality of regenerated flowback water," 2020, Fuel

The frequent coauthors in Vengosh's publications are:

  • Zhen Wang
  • Gordon Williams
  • Rachel Coyte
  • Ellen A. Cowan
  • Erika Weinthal

Vengosh has published extensively in certain scientific venues, often contributing to:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • GeoHealth
  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts

Additionally, Vengosh has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Cambridge University Press:

  • "Water Quality Impacts of the Energy-Water Nexus," 2022

Best Publications

  • A Critical Review of the Risks to Water Resources from Unconventional Shale Gas Development and Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States

    Avner Vengosh;Robert B Jackson;Robert B Jackson;Nathaniel R Warner;Thomas H Darrah

  • Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing

    Stephen G. Osborn;Avner Vengosh;Nathaniel R. Warner;Robert B. Jackson

  • Increased stray gas abundance in a subset of drinking water wells near Marcellus shale gas extraction

    Robert B. Jackson;Avner Vengosh;Thomas H. Darrah;Nathaniel R. Warner

  • Impacts of shale gas wastewater disposal on water quality in western Pennsylvania.

    Nathaniel R. Warner;Cidney A. Christie;Robert B. Jackson;Avner Vengosh

  • Geochemical evidence for possible natural migration of Marcellus Formation brine to shallow aquifers in Pennsylvania

    Nathaniel R. Warner;Robert B. Jackson;Thomas H. Darrah;Stephen G. Osborn

  • The Environmental Costs and Benefits of Fracking

    Robert B. Jackson;Avner Vengosh;J. William Carey;Richard J. Davies

  • Noble gases identify the mechanisms of fugitive gas contamination in drinking-water wells overlying the Marcellus and Barnett Shales

    Thomas H Darrah;Avner Vengosh;Robert B Jackson;Nathaniel R. R Warner

  • Climate change, water resources, and the politics of adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa

    Jeannie L. Sowers;Avner Vengosh;Erika Weinthal

  • Boron isotope application for tracing sources of contamination in groundwater

    A. Vengosh;K. G. Heumann;S. Juraske;R. Kasher

  • A review of the health impacts of barium from natural and anthropogenic exposure

    Julia Kravchenko;Thomas H. Darrah;Richard K. Miller;H. Kim Lyerly

  • Water Footprint of Hydraulic Fracturing

    Andrew Kondash;Avner Vengosh

  • Coprecipitation and isotopic fractionation of boron in modern biogenic carbonates

    Avner Vengosh;Avner Vengosh;Yehoshua Kolodny;Abraham Starinsky;Allan R Chivas

  • Quantity of flowback and produced waters from unconventional oil and gas exploration.

    Andrew J. Kondash;Elizabeth Albright;Avner Vengosh

  • Application of multiple isotopic and geochemical tracers for investigation of recharge, salinization, and residence time of water in the Souss–Massa aquifer, southwest of Morocco

    L. Bouchaou;J.L. Michelot;A. Vengosh;Y. Hsissou

  • Saline groundwater in Israel: its bearing on the water crisis in the country

    A. Vengosh;E. Rosenthal

  • The effects of shale gas exploration and hydraulic fracturing on the quality of water resources in the United States

    Avner Vengosh;Nathaniel Warner;Rob Jackson;Tom Darrah

  • Cumulative impacts of mountaintop mining on an Appalachian watershed

    T. Ty Lindberg;Emily S. Bernhardt;Raven Bier;A. M. Helton

  • Iodide, bromide, and ammonium in hydraulic fracturing and oil and gas wastewaters: environmental implications.

    Jennifer S. Harkness;Gary S. Dwyer;Nathaniel R. Warner;Nathaniel R. Warner;Kimberly M. Parker

  • Geochemical and boron, strontium, and oxygen isotopic constraints on the origin of the salinity in groundwater from the Mediterranean Coast of Israel

    Avner Vengosh;Arthur J. Spivack;Yohanan Artzi;Avner Ayalon

  • Brine Spills Associated with Unconventional Oil Development in North Dakota

    Nancy E. Lauer;Jennifer S. Harkness;Avner Vengosh

  • Geochemical Evidence for Possible Natural Migration of Marcellus Formation Brine to Shallow Aquifers in Pennsylvania

    N. R. Warner;T. H. Darrah;R. B. Jackson;S. Osborn

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert B. Jackson
Robert B. Jackson Stanford University
Gary S. Dwyer
Gary S. Dwyer Duke University
Thomas H. Darrah
Thomas H. Darrah The Ohio State University
Heileen Hsu-Kim
Heileen Hsu-Kim Duke University
Ittai Gavrieli
Ittai Gavrieli Geological Survey of Israel
Lhoussaine Bouchaou
Lhoussaine Bouchaou Université Ibn Zohr
Abraham Starinsky
Abraham Starinsky Hebrew University of Jerusalem
William A. Mitch
William A. Mitch Stanford University
Bernhard Mayer
Bernhard Mayer University of Calgary
Thomas D. Bullen
Thomas D. Bullen United States Geological Survey

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