Registration for the tenth annual Shale Network Workshop is now open. The theme of the 2021 workshop is “Shale Gas: Future and Developing Issues” and includes presentations on the health effects related to shale gas development by Donna Vorhees, director of energy research at the Health Effects Institute, and Joan Casey, assistant professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University. The workshop will be held virtually on May 13-14.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Shale Network has announced the theme and dates of the 2021 annual workshop. The theme of the 2021 workshop is “Shale Gas: Future and Developing Issues.” The workshop will take place remotely May 13-14 and include virtual field trips, invited talks, panel discussions and pre-recorded presentations.

To Shale Network participants:

UPDATE: 2020 WORKSHOP CANCELLED

To Shale Network participants: 

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Shale Network has announced the theme and dates of the 2020 annual workshop. The theme of the 2020 workshop is “Shale Gas: Future and Developing Issues” and will include presentations on the health effects related to shale gas development by Donna Vorhees, director of energy research at the Health Effects Institute, and Joan Casey, assistant professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University. The workshop will take place May 14-15 at the Graduate Hotel in State College, Pa.

Shale Network has released the agenda for the 2019 workshop. The workshop will be held May 16 and 17 at The Nittany Lion Inn in State College, Pa. The full agenda is available below. Please click here to download a PDF version.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Trout Unlimited has released the results of water samples taken during the latest Watershed Snapshot Day in Allegheny National Forest. Organized by Trout Unlimited, the U.S. Forest Service and Penn State, Watershed Snapshot Days bring researchers and citizen scientists together to sample dozens of streams throughout the forest for research and conservation purposes.

Watch the full video below.

Monitoring Communities and Their Environment

A workshop held by the Shale Network in State College, Pa.

We are now only accepting poster abstracts for the eighth annual Shale Network Workshop to be held in State College, Pa., on May 16 and 17, 2019. Please submit abstracts as soon as possible.

View full details about the workshop here.

Registration for the eighth annual Shale Network Workshop is now open. 

The workshop will be held May 16 and 17 at the Nittany Lion Inn in State College, Pa. The theme of this year's workshop is "Monitoring Communities and Their Environment." 

The workshop provides an opportunity for citizen scientists, researchers, government officials, energy company representatives, and environmental professionals to compare lessons learned about water and environmental issues within areas where shale energy development is occurring.

By Matt Carroll

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A new study of groundwater in a rural Pennsylvania county shows only rare instances of possible gas contamination amid an overall trend of improving water quality despite heavy Marcellus Shale development.