Avner Vengosh
Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences
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My research aims to link environmental geochemistry and isotope hydrology in order to trace the sources and mechanisms of water contamination and relationships with human health. 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 Northern Africa, naturally occurring contaminants (arsenic, fluoride, boron) and radioactivity in water resources, the impact of coal combustion residues on the environment, and the impact of gas drilling and hydro-fracking on the quality of shallow groundwater.
Education
- Ph.D., Australian National University (Australia) 1990
- M.S., Hebrew University (Israel) 1986
- B.S., Hebrew University (Israel) 1984
Marie, A., and A. Vengosh. “Sources of salinity in ground water from Jericho area, Jordan Valley.” Ground Water 39, no. 2 (March 2001): 240–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6584.2001.tb02305.x. Full Text
Yechieli, Y., O. Sivan, B. Lazar, A. Vengosh, D. Ronen, and B. Herut. “Radiocarbon in seawater intruding into the Israeli mediterranean coastal aquifer.” Radiocarbon 43, no. 2 PART II (January 1, 2001): 773–81. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200041448. Full Text
Vengosh, A., J. Gieskes, and C. Mahn. “New evidence for the origin of hypersaline pore fluids in the Mediterranean basin.” Chemical Geology 163, no. 1–4 (February 1, 2000): 287–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00131-X. Full Text
Vengosh, A., A. J. Spivack, Y. Artzi, and A. Ayalon. “Geochemical and boron, strontium, and oxygen isotopic constraints on the origin of the salinity in groundwater from the Mediterranean coast of Israel.” Water Resources Research 35, no. 6 (January 1, 1999): 1877–94. https://doi.org/10.1029/1999WR900024. Full Text
Vengosh, A., S. Barth, K. G. Heumann, and S. Eisenhut. “Boron isotopic composition of freshwater lakes from central Europe and possible contamination sources.” Acta Hydrochimica Et Hydrobiologica 27, no. 6 (1999): 416–21. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1521-401X(199912)27:6<416::AID-AHEH416>3.0.CO;2-2. Full Text
Vengosh, A., G. J. De Lange, and A. Starinsky. “Boron isotope and geochemical evidence for the origin of Urania and Bannock brines at the eastern Mediterranean: Effect of water-rock interactions.” Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 62, no. 19–20 (October 1, 1998): 3221–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7037(98)00236-1. Full Text
Vengosh, A., and I. Pankratov. “Chloride/bromide and chloride/fluoride ratios of domestic sewage effluents and associated contaminated ground water.” Ground Water 36, no. 5 (January 1, 1998): 815–24. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6584.1998.tb02200.x. Full Text
Vengosh, A. “The isotopic composition of anthropogenic boron and its potential impact on the environment.” Biological Trace Element Research 66, no. 1–3 (January 1998): 145–51. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02783134. Full Text
Eisenhut, S., K. G. Heumann, and A. Vengosh. “Determination of boron isotopic variations in aquatic systems with negative thermal ionization mass spectrometry as a tracer for anthropogenic influences.” Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 354, no. 7–8 (March 1996): 903–9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s0021663540903. Full Text
Vengosh, A., and R. Keren. “Chemical modifications of groundwater contaminated by recharge of treated sewage effluent.” Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 23, no. 4 (January 1, 1996): 347–60. https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-7722(96)00019-8. Full Text