Duke Middle East Studies Center Affliated Faculty Database
Duke Middle East Studies Center
Arts & Sciences
Duke University

 HOME > Arts & Sciences > DUMESC > Affliated Faculty    Search Help Login pdf version printable version 

Avner Vengosh, Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Environmental Quality

Avner Vengosh

Please note: Avner has left the "Duke Middle East Studies Center" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Avner Vengosh is a Duke University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Quality at the Nicholas School of the Environment.  Professor Vengosh and his team have studied the energy-water nexus, conducting pioneer research on the impact of hydraulic fracturing and coal ash disposal on the quantity and quality of water resources in the U.S. and China. He has also investigated the sources and mechanisms of water contamination in numerous countries across the globe, including salinity and radioactivity in the Middle East, uranium in India, fluoride in Eastern Africa, arsenic in Vietnam, and hexavalent chromium in North Carolina and China. As part of these studies, his team has developed novel geochemical and isotopic tracers that are used as fingerprints to delineate the sources of water contamination and evaluate potential risks for human health. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA) and International Association of Geochemistry (IAGC). In 2019, 2020 and 2021 he was recognized as one of the Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers. He serves as an Editor of GeoHealth and on the editorial board of the journal Environmental Science and Technology. He has published 165 scientific papers in leading international journals. His recent cross-disciplinary book “Water Quality Impacts of the Energy-Water Nexus” (Cambridge University Press, 2020) provides an integrated assessment of the different scientific and policy tools around the energy-water nexus. It focuses on how water use, and wastewater and waste solids produced from fossil fuel energy production affect water quality and quantity. Summarizing cutting edge research, the book describes the scientific methods for detecting contamination sources in the context of policy and regulations.

Contact Info:
Office Location:  308 Research Drive, A-207 LSRC, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  (919) 681-8050
Email Address: send me a message

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • ECS 524.01, WATER QUALITY HEALTH Synopsis
    LSRC A247, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
    (also cross-listed as ENERGY 524.01, ENVIRON 524.01, EOS 524.01, GLHLTH 534.01)
Teaching (Fall 2024):

  • ECS 220.01, WATER SCIENCES Synopsis
    Grainger 1105, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
    (also cross-listed as ENVIRON 220.01, EOS 220.01)
Education:

Ph.D.Australian National University (Australia)1990
M.S.Hebrew University (Israel)1986
B.S.Hebrew University (Israel)1984
Specialties:

geochemistry
water quality
hydrofracking
Keywords:

Acids • Ammonium • Arsenic • Arsenicals • Barium chloride • Bioaccumulation • Boric acid • Boron • Boron--Isotopes • Calcium • Calcium Carbonate • Carbon • Carbon Compounds, Inorganic • Carbon Isotopes • Chemical Precipitation • Child • Coal • Coal Ash • Coal ash sites • Deuterium • Disasters • Drinking Water • Environment • Environmental Pollutants • Environmental Pollution • Epidemiological Monitoring • Extraction and Processing Industry • Fluorosis, Dental • Fossil Fuels • Fresh Water • Gas wells--Hydraulic fracturing • Gases • Groundwater • Halides • Health • Hydraulic fracturing • Industrial Waste • Industry • Ions • Isotopes • Keratin • Kinetics • Lakes • Lithium--Isotopes • Mass Spectrometry • Mercury Isotopes • Metalloids • Metals • Metals, Heavy • Middle East • Molecular Weight • Nails • Natural gas • Noble Gases • Oil and Gas Fields • Osmosis • Oxygen • Particulate Matter • Power Plants • Radioactive Pollutants • Radium • Risk • Rivers • Rural Population • Salinity • Salts • Seawater • Selenium • Shale gas • Soil • Solubility • Stable isotopes • Strontium Isotopes • Strontium--Isotopes • Sulfur Isotopes • Surface Properties • Sustainability • Thermodynamics • Waste Water • Water • Water Pollutants, Radioactive • Water Resources

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Vengosh, A; Wang, Z; Williams, G; Hill, R; Coyte, R; Dwyer, GS, Response to comments on Vengosh et al. (2022): The strontium isotope fingerprint of phosphate rocks mining., The Science of the Total Environment, vol. 870 (April, 2023), pp. 161878 [doi]
  2. Weinberg, R; Coyte, R; Wang, Z; Das, D; Vengosh, A, Water quality implications of the neutralization of acid mine drainage with coal fly ash from India and the United States, Fuel, vol. 330 (December, 2022), pp. 125675-125675, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs]
  3. Vengosh, A; Wang, Z; Williams, G; Hill, R; M Coyte, R; Dwyer, GS, The strontium isotope fingerprint of phosphate rocks mining., The Science of the Total Environment, vol. 850 (December, 2022), pp. 157971 [doi]  [abs]
  4. Ni, Y; Yao, L; Sui, J; Chen, J; Liu, F; Wang, F; Zhu, G; Vengosh, A, Shale gas wastewater geochemistry and impact on the quality of surface water in Sichuan Basin., The Science of the Total Environment, vol. 851 no. Pt 2 (December, 2022), pp. 158371 [doi]  [abs]
  5. Schlesinger, WH; Klein, EM; Vengosh, A, The Global Biogeochemical Cycle of Arsenic, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, vol. 36 no. 11 (November, 2022) [doi]  [abs]


Duke University * Arts & Sciences * DUMESC * Executive * Faculty * Staff * Grad * Reload * Login