Workshop archive. The materials, affiliations, and software references below describe this dated event.
Lessons Learned about Water Issues in the Northeastern Region of Shale Gas Development
The 4th Annual Shale Network workshop was held May 7 and 8 at Penn State and the Atherton Hotel in State College. 22 people attended the HydroDesktop Demo and 80 attended the workshop (view full list of attendees). Presentation materials are linked below.
Funding for the workshop came from the National Science Foundation and from the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment. The theme of the workshop was “Lessons Learned about Water Issues in the Northeastern Region of Shale Gas Development”.
Date(s):
May 7 and 8, 2015
Location:
Atherton Hotel, State College, PA. (Adjacent to the Penn State University Park campus.)
About the Workshop
Participants discussed sharing and interpreting water quality and quantity data related to shale gas development.
The Shale Network, funded by the National Science Foundation, is a collaborative effort between Penn State, Pitt, Dickinson and CUAHSI and the NSF to collect and analyze data on water quality in the Marcellus Shale drilling region. The workshop provided an opportunity for nonscientists, researchers, experts, government officials, and members of the gas and environmental industries to compare lessons learned about water issues within the northeastern region of shale gas development.
Agenda
The 2015 Workshop Agenda is available.
Presentations
The 2015 Workshop Presentations Schedule is available. Available presentation materials:
- Evaluating a groundwater supply contamination incident attributed to Marcellus Shale gas development (Garth Llewellyn et al.)
- Full paper - Llewellyn, G., F.L. Dorman, J. L. Westland, D. Yoxtheimer, P. Grieve, T. Sowers, E. Humston-Fulmer, S.L. Brantley, 2015. “Evaluating a groundwater supply contamination incident attributed to Marcellus Shale gas development”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(20), 6325–6330. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1420279112.
- Presentation slides
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Monitoring Design (Elin Betanzo)
- The Use of Strontium Isotope (Liz Chapman)
- Community-based Water Quality Monitoring (Md. Khalequzzaman)
- Stream Monitoring for Estimating Methane (Susan Brantley, et al)
- Dissolved Methane Method Study (Rock Vitale)
- Methane Concentrations in Water (Siegel, et al)
- Evaluation of Macroinvertebrate (Luanne Steffy)
- Environmental concerns with NORM (Tieyuan Zhang, Radisav Vidic)