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Abstract


The ShaleNetwork is a group of individuals working together to publish water quality and quantity data online for regions where shale gas is being exploited in the U.S.A. (www.shalenetwork.org). The ShaleNetwork has a primary focus in the northeastern U.S.A but also publishes data from other areas. The ShaleNetwork database includes data generated by academic researchers, government agencies, industry representatives, nonprofit entities, watershed groups, and others; data from all entities are welcome, as long as data quality is maintained. The ShaleNetwork acts as an “honest broker” that collates datasets, publishes them in the CUAHSI HIS, and synthesizes the data into useful knowledge. To cite the database, cite the doi as doi:10.4211/his-data-shalenetwork. Papers interpreting the data are noted below. As these papers are published by members of the Shale Network team, the data subsets are published here, along with occasional snapshots of the entire dataset: https://goo.gl/5GFjzQ. The Steering Committee of the ShaleNetwork derive from Penn State, University of Pittsburgh, and Syracuse University, with help from the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc. This group was funded originally by the National Science Foundation in October 2011 to put together the database and to run annual workshops (www.shalenetwork.org). Funding derived from NSF 11-40159 and 16-39150 to S. Brantley.

Journal Article


Brantley, S.L., Yoxtheimer, D., Arjmand, S., Grieve, P., Vidic, R., Pollak, J., Llewellyn, G.T., Abad, J. and Simon, C. (2014) Water resource impacts during unconventional shale gas development: The Pennsylvania experience. International Journal of Coal Geology 126, 140-156, dx.doi.org/110.1016/j.coal.2013.1012.1017.

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Vidic, R.D., Brantley, S.L., Vandenbossche, J.M., Yoxtheimer, D. and Abad, J.D. (2013) Impact of shale gas development on regional water quality. Science 340, 826, DOI:810.1126/science.1235009.

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Brantley, S.L., Vidic, R.D., Brasier, K., Yoxtheimer, D., Pollak, J., Wilderman, C., Wen, T., 2018. Engaging over data on fracking and water quality. Science 359, 395–397. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan6520

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Wen, T., Agarwal, A., Xue, L., Chen, A., Herman, A., Li, Z. and Brantley, S. L. (2019). Assessing changes in groundwater chemistry in landscapes with more than 100 years of oil and gas development. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 21(2), 384-396, 10.1039/C8EM00385H.

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Wen, T., Niu, X., Gonzales, M., Zheng, G., Li, Z. and Brantley, S. L. (2018) Big groundwater datasets reveal possible rare contamination amid otherwise improved water quality for some analytes in a region of Marcellus Shale development. Environmental Science & Technology, 52(12), 7149-7159, 10.1021/acs.est.8b01123.

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Li, Z., You, C., Gonzales, M., Wendt, A. K., Wu, F. and Brantley, S. L. (2016) Searching for anomalous methane in shallow groundwater near shale gas wells. Journal of contaminant hydrology, 195, 23-30, DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2016.10.005. Li, Z., You, C., Gonzales, M., Wendt, A. K., Wu, F. and Brantley, S. L. (2017) Corrigendum to; Searching for anomalous methane in shallow groundwater near shale gas wells;[J. Contam. Hydrol.(195)(December 2016) 23-30]. Journal of contaminant hydrology, 207, 50-51, DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2017.09.009.

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Woda, J., Wen, T., Oakley, D., Yoxtheimer, D., Engelder, T., Castro, M.C., Brantley, S.L., 2018. Detecting and explaining why aquifers occasionally become degraded near hydraulically fractured shale gas wells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, 12349–12358. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1809013115

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Wen, T., Agarwal, A., Xue, L., Chen, A., Herman, A., Li, Z., Brantley, S.L., 2019. Assessing changes in groundwater chemistry in landscapes with more than 100 years of oil and gas development. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts 21, 384–396. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8EM00385H

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Wen, T., Woda, J., Marcon, V., Niu, X., Li, Z., Brantley, S.L., 2019. Exploring How to Use Groundwater Chemistry to Identify Migration of Methane near Shale Gas Wells in the Appalachian Basin. Environmental Science & Technology acs.est.9b02290. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b02290

Preprint


Zheng, G., Liu, M., Wen, T., Wang, H., Yao, H., Brantley, S.L., Li, Z., 2019. Targeted Source Detection for Environmental Data. arXiv e-prints arXiv:1908.11056.

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Agarwal, A., Wen, T., Chen, A., Zhang, A.Y., Niu, X., Zhan, X., Xue, L., Brantley, S.L., 2020. Assessing Contamination of Stream Networks near Shale Gas Development Using a New Geospatial Tool. Environ. Sci. Technol. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b06761

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Woda, J., Wen, T., Lemon, J., Marcon, V., Keeports, C.M., Zelt, F., Steffy, L.Y., Brantley, S.L., 2020. Methane concentrations in streams reveal gas leak discharges in regions of oil, gas, and coal development. Science of The Total Environment 737, 140105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140105