Using CUAHSI HIS to Assess Water Quality and Quantity Data in Regions of Hydraulic Fracturing

[Jon Pollak]

Dear Colleagues,

Please join CUAHSI tomorrow, March 27 at 3 PM Eastern for the first of our upcoming HIS Cyberseminars. Dr. Sue Brantley, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Pennsylvania State University, will be discussing the application of the CUAHSI HIS to the ShaleNetwork project:

Significant public controversy has developed in response to the use of hydrofracturing especially in the northeastern states underlain by the Marcellus shale where some citizens and scientists question whether shale gas recovery will contaminate local surface and ground waters. Researchers, government agencies, and citizen scientists in Pennsylvania are teaming up to run the ShaleNetwork (www.shalenetwork.org), an NSF-funded research collaboration network that is currently finding, collating, sharing, publishing, and exploring data related to water quality and quantity in areas that are exploiting shale gas. The effort, focused initially on Pennsylvania, is developing the ShaleNetwork database, which is hosted by CUAHSI and available for public download through the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System.

To join the cyberseminar, follow the link and dial into the conference line listed below:

http://cuahsi.adobeconnect.com/his

Conference Line: (866) 244-8528

Participant Code: 391191

Once you have dialed into the conference line, you will be prompted for the participant code.

We hope you will join us!

Cheers,

Jon