Avner Vengosh, Professor of Nicholas School of the Environment and Civil and Environmental Engineering
My research aims to link environmental geochemistry, advanced isotope geochemistry, and applied hydrology in order to trace the sources and mechanisms of water contamination. Current research includes global changes of the chemical and isotopic compositions of water resources due to human intervention and contamination, salinization of water resources in the Middle East, and natural radioactivity of groundwater.
| Office Location: | 205 Old Chem |
| Office Phone: | 919-681-8050 |
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- Education:
- PhD, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- BS, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- MS, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- BS, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Research Interests: environmental and aqueous geochemistry, isotope hydrology, water quality, and salinization of water resources.
- Specialties:
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geochemistry
water quality
hydrofracking
- Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
International Association of Geochemistry (IAGC) Fellow 2011, International Association of Geochemistry (IAGC)
2011 International Association of Geochemistry (IAGC) Fellow, International Association of Geochemistry (IAGC), March, 2011
- EOS 527.01, INTERNATIONAL WATER RESOURCES
Synopsis
- Old Chem 101, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- Recent Publications
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- Lindberg, T.T., Bernhardt, E.S., Bier, R., Helton, A., Merola, R.B., Vengosh, A. and Di Giulio, T.D., Cumulative impacts of mountaintop mining on an Appalachian watershed, PNAS, vol. 108 (December, 2011) [1112381108.abstract] [abs].
- Stephen G. Osborn, Avner Vengosh, Nathaniel R. Warner, and Robert B. Jackson, Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 108 (May, 2011), pp. 8172-8176 [PDF].
- David S. Vinson, Haylee G. Schwartz, Gary S. Dwyer, Avner Vengosh, Evaluating salinity sources of groundwater and implications for sustainable reverse osmosis desalination in coastal North Carolina, USA, Hydrogeology Journal, vol. 19 (2011), pp. 981-994 [PDF].
- Sowers. J. Vengosh, A., Weinthal, E.S., Climate change, water resources, and the politics of adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa, Climatic Change, vol. 104 (2011), pp. 599-627 .
- Vinson, D.S., McIntosh, J.C., Dwyer, G.S., Vengosh, A., Arsenic and other oxyanion-forming natural contaminants in an alluvial basin aquifer: Evaluating sources and mobilization by isotopic tracers (Sr, B, S, C, O, H, Ra), Applied Geochemistry, vol. 26 (2011), pp. 1364-1376 .