Publications

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* = co-first author, ^† = undergraduate mentee

Geochemical controls on the formation of lithium brines in closed-basins of the Lithium Triangle — Gordon D.Z. Williams, Julien Barre, Pascale Louvat, Sylvain Bérail, Romain Millot, Avner Vengosh — Earth and Planetary Science Letters [pdf]
Discrepancies between pH and Corrosive Indices of Hypersaline Effluents — Paz Nativ, Gordon D.Z. Williams, Avner Vengosh — Environmental Science & Technology Letters [pdf]

The Water Quality Impacts of Legacy Hard-Rock Lithium Mining and Processing — Gordon D.Z. Williams, Marija Petrović, Robert C. Hill, ^†Grace A. Hall, Avner Vengosh — Environmental Science & Technology [pdf]
Strontium isotopes and Rb/Sr tracers in surface soils for locating subsurface lithium pegmatites — *^†Grace A. Hall, *Gordon D.Z. Williams, Mona-Liza C. Sirbescu, P. Louis Lu, Gary S. Dwyer, Daniel D. Richter, Avner Vengosh — Applied Geochemistry [pdf]
Radionuclides and the uranium isotope fingerprint of globally produced phosphate rocks, mineral fertilizers, and phosphogypsum waste and its potential effect on the environment — Robert C. Hill, Zhen Wang, Jun Hu, Gordon D.Z. Williams, Avner Vengosh — Journal of Hazardous Materials [pdf]
Lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide particles cause developmental neurotoxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans — Roi Faroud Lopez, Javier Huayta, Gordon D.Z. Williams, Sarah A. Seay, Pooja D. Lalwani, Sasha N. Bacot, Avner Vengosh, Joel N. Meyer — Environmental Science: Advances [pdf]
The role of boron in controlling the pH of lithium brines — Gordon D.Z. Williams, Paz Nativ, Avner Vengosh — Science Advances [pdf]
Quality of Wastewater from Lithium-Brine Mining — Gordon D.Z. Williams, Avner Vengosh — Environmental Science & Technology Letters [pdf]

The potential water quality impacts of hard-rock lithium mining: Insights from a legacy pegmatite mine in North Carolina, USA — Gordon D.Z. Williams, Sam Saltman, Zhen Wang, D. Morgan Warren, Robert C. Hill, Avner Vengosh — Science of The Total Environment — Science of The Total Environment [pdf]
Reconstructing the depositional environment and diagenetic modification of global phosphate deposits through integration of uranium and strontium isotopes — Robert C. Hill, Zhen Wang, Gordon D.Z. Williams, Victor Polyak, Anjali Singh, Michael A. Kipp, Yemane Asmerom, Avner Vengosh — Chemical Geology [pdf]
Tracing the Environmental Effects of Mineral Fertilizer Application with Trace Elements and Strontium Isotope Variations — Robert C. Hill, Gordon D.Z. Williams, Zhen Wang, Jun Hu, Tayel El-Hasan, Owen W. Duckworth, Ewald Schnug, Roland Bol, Anjali Singh, Avner Vengosh — Environmental Science & Technology Letters [pdf]
Evidence for the accumulation of toxic metal(loid)s in agricultural soils impacted from long-term application of phosphate fertilizer — Jun Hu, Zhen Wang, Gordon D.Z. Williams, Gary S. Dwyer, Luke Gatiboni, Owen W. Duckworth, Avner Vengosh — Science of The Total Environment [pdf]

Lead isotopes and rare earth elements geochemistry of global phosphate rocks: Insights into depositional conditions and environmental tracing — Zhen Wang, Robert Hill, Gordon Williams, Gary S. Dwyer, Jun Hu, Ewald Schnug, Roland Bol, Yajie Sun, Drew S. Coleman, Xiao-Ming Liu, Michael R. Sandstrom, Avner Vengosh — Chemical Geology [pdf]

The strontium isotope fingerprint of phosphate rocks mining — Avner Vengosh, Zhen Wang, Gordon Williams, Robert Hill, Rachel M. Coyte, Gary S. Dwyer — Science of the Total Environment [pdf]

Seismology with dark data: Image-based processing of analog records using machine learning for the rangely earthquake control experiment — Kaiwen Wang, William L. Ellsworth, Gregory C. Beroza, Gordon Williams, Miao Zhang, Dustin Schroeder, Justin Rubinstein — Seismological Research Letters [pdf]