Congratulations to Dr. Avner Vengosh! 

Dr. Vengosh has received the Best Science Article Award of 2013 from Environmental Science and Technology for his paper titled, ” Impacts of Shale Gas Wastewater Disposal on Water Quality in Western Pennsylvania.” Co-authors include Nathaniel Warner (PhD, 2013) and Cidney Christie (MEM, 2013).

Dr. Vengosh is a Professor of Geochemistry and Water Quality and Chair of the Water and Air Resources program at the Nicholas School of the Environment. He also holds appointments in our Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program, as well as the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

For more information about Dr. Vengosh’s work, please visit his website. You can read the paper’s abstract here.