Potential impacts of shale gas development on inorganic groundwater chemistry: implications for environmental baseline assessment in shallow aquifers

R Bondu, W Kloppmann… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The potential contamination of shallow groundwater with inorganic constituents is a major
environmental concern associated with shale gas extraction through hydraulic fracturing …

Groundwater salinity susceptibility mapping using classifier ensemble and Bayesian machine learning models

A Mosavi, FS Hosseini, B Choubin, M Goodarzi… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Risk and susceptibility mapping of groundwater salinity (GWS) are challenging tasks for
groundwater quality monitoring and management. Advancement of accurate prediction …

Orphaned oil and gas well stimulus—Maximizing economic and environmental benefits

M Kang, AR Brandt, Z Zheng, J Boutot, C Yung… - Elem Sci …, 2021 - online.ucpress.edu
Orphaned oil and gas wells are abandoned wells for which the cost of environmental
impacts usually falls on governments and the general public. Government agencies …

Natural and anthropogenic processes affecting domestic groundwater quality within the Northwestern Appalachian Basin

HG Siegel, MA Soriano, CJ Clark… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Domestic wells serve as the primary drinking-water source for rural residents in the northern
Appalachian Basin (NAB), despite a limited understanding of contaminant distributions in …

Exploring how to use groundwater chemistry to identify migration of methane near shale gas wells in the Appalachian Basin

T Wen, J Woda, V Marcon, X Niu, Z Li… - … Science & Technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Methane (CH4) enters waters in hydrocarbon-rich basins because of natural processes and
problems related to oil and gas wells. As a redox-active greenhouse gas, CH4 degrades …

Base of fresh water, groundwater salinity, and well distribution across California

M Kang, D Perrone, Z Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The depth at which groundwaters transition from fresh to more saline—the “base of fresh
water”—is frequently used to determine the stringency and types of measures put in place to …

Detecting anomalous methane in groundwater within hydrocarbon production areas across the United States

T Wen, M Liu, J Woda, G Zheng, SL Brantley - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Numerous geochemical approaches have been proposed to ascertain if methane
concentrations in groundwater,[CH 4], are anomalous, ie, migrated from hydrocarbon …

Application of Bayesian regularized neural networks for groundwater level modeling

B Choubin, FS Hosseini, Z Fried… - 2020 IEEE 3rd …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current research uses a novel machine learning method (ie, Bayesian Regularized Neural
Networks; BRNN) to model the groundwater level (GWL) in the Mahabad Aquifer in West …

Road salting and natural brine migration revealed as major sources of groundwater contamination across regions of northern Appalachia with and without …

F Epuna, SW Shaheen, T Wen - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
High methane and salt levels in groundwater have been the most widely cited
unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD) related water impairments. The attribution …

[HTML][HTML] Factors affecting groundwater quality used for domestic supply in Marcellus Shale region of North-Central and North-East Pennsylvania, USA

CA Cravotta III, LA Senior, MD Conlon - Applied Geochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Factors affecting groundwater quality used for domestic supply within the Marcellus Shale
footprint in north-central and north-east Pennsylvania are identified using a combination of …