Publications

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

2026

• Baseline water quality and geochemistry of shallow groundwater used by indigenous communities in the vicinity of the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia — Hannah Wudke, Gordon D.Z. Williams, Avner Vengosh — Applied Geochemistry [pdf]
• Investigating reservoir-scale heterogeneity in Li-enriched oil field brines of the Devonian Leduc and Nisku formations, Alberta Basin, Canada — Madigan R. Blake, Kristina L. Butler, Lee Ann Munk, David F. Boutt, Natasha Morris, Joanie Kennedy, Pritam Saha, Jenna Serotta, Hannah Tompkins, Gordon D.Z. Williams, Avner Vengosh, Jaivime Evaristo, Daniel E. Ibarra — Applied Geochemistry [pdf]
• Environmental and vital effects on lithium isotopes and trace element ratios in biogenic carbonates: Insights from an estuarine salinity gradient — ^†Alexandra M. Schaffer, Gordon D.Z. Williams, Gary S. Dwyer, Ethan G. Hyland, Juliet M. Wong, Joshua S. Osterberg, Thomas F. Schultz, Michael A. Kipp — Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta [pdf]
• A simple, field-compatible method for accurate pH measurement in hypersaline brines — Paz Nativ, Gordon D.Z. Williams, Avner Vengosh — Applied Geochemistry [pdf] [WebTool]
• Origins of the Mg/Li ratio in closed-basin brines of the Lithium Triangle: The relative importance of high- and low-temperature water-rock interactions — Gordon D.Z. Williams, Avner Vengosh — Earth-Science Reviews [pdf] [Lithium Triangle Dataset]
• 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]

2025

• 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]

2024

• 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]

2023

• 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]

2022

• 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]

2019

• 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]