Shale Network – Mercer County Groundwater as of August 2018

This data set is a subset of the Shale Network database (https://doi.org/10.4211/his-data-shalenetwork) and has been discussed in the following publication “Wen, T., Agarwal, A., Xue, L., Chen, A., Herman, A., Li, Z., Brantley, S., 2018. Assessing Changes in Groundwater Chemistry in Landscapes with More than 100 Years of Oil and Gas Development. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts.”. The Shale Network (http://www.shalenetwork.org/) is a project funded by the National Science Foundation to help scientists and citizens store data for water resources that may be affected by gas exploitation in shale in the U.S.A. Our primary focus currently is the northeastern U.S.A. We want to enable the generation of knowledge from water chemistry and flow data collected in areas of extraction of natural gas. The Shale Network is working with the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc. (CUAHSI) to create this database (http://data.cuahsi.org/). Our goal is to find, organize, and upload data for water resources for online publication with attribution. The Shale Network is seeking organizations engaged in water quality monitoring or research to join our effort. Please contact us if you wish to learn more about becoming part of the Shale Network.

本数据集为页岩网络（Shale Network）数据库的子集，其DOI访问链接为https://doi.org/10.4211/his-data-shalenetwork，相关研究成果已发表于如下文献：Wen T、Agarwal A、Xue L、Chen A、Herman A、Li Z、Brantley S 于2018年发表在《环境科学：过程与影响（Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts）》期刊的《Assessing Changes in Groundwater Chemistry in Landscapes with More than 100 Years of Oil and Gas Development》一文。页岩网络（Shale Network，官网地址为http://www.shalenetwork.org/）是由美国国家科学基金会资助的科研项目，旨在帮助科研人员与普通民众存储可能受美国本土页岩气开采活动影响的水资源相关数据。本项目当前的核心研究区域为美国东北部，致力于从天然气开采区域采集的水化学与水文流量数据中挖掘学术新知。页岩网络（Shale Network）目前正与大学水文科学促进协会（Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc., CUAHSI）合作构建该数据库，数据库公开访问地址为http://data.cuahsi.org/。本项目的目标是搜集、整理并上传水资源相关数据，在严格标注原作者信息的前提下进行在线发布。页岩网络（Shale Network）现招募从事水质监测或相关研究的机构加入合作。若您希望了解更多参与本项目的相关信息，请与我们联系。