News & workshop archive – Shale Network

Browse dated workshop materials and reports on research, teaching, and community monitoring. These pages preserve historical affiliations and activities; they are not announcements of current registration or ongoing programs.

Selected workshop records include the 2012 data-sharing conclusions, 2016 presentations and field trip, 2021 virtual presentations, and 2022 agenda and abstracts.

2022 Shale Network Workshop

Agenda and abstracts on ten years of unconventional resource development.

2021 Shale Network Workshop

Virtual workshop agenda, abstracts, and prerecorded presentations.

2020 Shale Network Workshop [CANCELLED]

Cancellation record and the planned agenda for the 2020 workshop.

2019 Shale Network Workshop

Archived program and field-trip itinerary for Monitoring Communities and Their Environment.

Trout Unlimited Releases Results Of Latest Watershed Snapshot Day

An archived video about volunteer sampling in Allegheny National Forest.

Bradford County Water Quality Improves; Impacts Rare Near Shale Gas Wells

A regional groundwater study illustrates the use of combined datasets to investigate water chemistry.

2018 Shale Network Workshop

Workshop materials on integrating water data, wastewater reuse, and community monitoring.

Students See Green Mock Spill Illustrates Potential Impact Of Wastewater Leak

A dye demonstration helped students examine how a spill could travel through a stream.

Data Driven Dialogue Scientists Bring Groups Together On Water Quality Concerns

Penn State reporting on dialogue among researchers, communities, government, and industry.

Snapshot Day Brings Pennsylvania Water Quality Into Focus

An archival account of volunteer stream sampling with researchers and Trout Unlimited.

TeenShale Network Gears Up For Another Year

A 2017 account of students returning to water-quality monitoring at Black Moshannon Creek.

Shale Network Workshop Brings Diverse Group Together For Water Quality Discussions

A report from the 2017 workshop on participation across research, government, industry, and community groups.

2017 Shale Network Workshop

Presentations and agenda on water monitoring, well integrity, waste management, and data sharing.

Big Data Approach To Water Quality Applied At Shale Drilling Sites

Penn State reporting on a project to examine water-quality data with computational methods.

Conference Takes Aim At State’s Orphan Well Problem

An archival account of a conference on locating and assessing orphaned and abandoned wells.

State College High School Students Testing The Waters At Black Mo

Student monitoring at Black Moshannon Creek, with a link to the Centre Daily Times report.

2016 Shale Network Workshop

Workshop materials on water data, citizen monitoring, and legacy oil and gas wells.

TeenShale Network Returns To The Field For Another Year

A 2015 account of students collecting and analyzing stream-water samples.

Shale Network Fosters Collaboration, Focuses on Water Quality

A report from the 2015 workshop on sharing water-quality observations and research.

State High Students Partner With Penn State To Monitor Water Quality

Students describe field sampling and learning through TeenShale Network in 2015.

New Technique Shows Shale Drilling Additives In Drinking Water Taps Near Leak

An archival account of a study of three Pennsylvania drinking-water supplies, with the paper and author FAQs.

2015 Shale Network Workshop

Agenda and presentations on water quality, monitoring methods, and shale gas development.

DEP Announces the Members of the Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board

An archived 2015 announcement of Pennsylvania advisory-board appointments.

High School Students Learning Water Quality Monitoring

A 2015 repost summarizing a May 2014 Penn State story about student water monitoring.

2014 Shale Network Workshop

A record of the May 2014 workshop and its presentations on water monitoring and data sharing.

2013 Shale Network Workshop

Agenda, presentations, and participant evaluations from the May 2013 workshop.

2012 Shale Network Workshop

Workshop conclusions on data sharing, provenance, data gaps, and access, with an opening presentation and participant list.