Debra Perrone
Biographic Data
| ID | 6926729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debra Perrone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debra |
| FAMILY NAME | Perrone |
| SIGNATURE | PERRONE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4268-8478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Environmental risks and opportunities of orphaned oil and gas wells in the United States
Hundreds of thousands of documented and undocumented orphaned oil and gas wells exist in the United States (U.S.). These wells have the potential to contaminate water supplies, degrade ecosystems, and emit methane and other air pollutants. Thus, orphaned wells present risks to climate stability and to environmental and human health, which can be reduced by plugging. To quantify environmental risks and opportunities of well plugging at the nationa…
Groundwater Overreliance Leaves Farmers and Households High and Dry
Deeper well drilling an unsustainable stopgap to groundwater depletion
Competition for shrinking window of low salinity groundwater
Groundwater resources are being stressed from the top down and bottom up. Declining water tables and near-surface contamination are driving groundwater users to construct deeper wells in many US aquifer systems. This has been a successful short-term mitigation measure where deep groundwater is fresh and free of contaminants. Nevertheless, vertical salinity profiles are not well-constrained at continental-scales. In many regions, oil and gas activ…
Dry groundwater wells in the western United States
Declining groundwater levels are common in parts of the western US, but their impact on the ability of wells to pump groundwater is not known. Here we collate groundwater well records for the western United States and present the recorded locations, depths, and purposes of more than two million groundwater wells constructed between 1950 and 2015. We then use the well records to estimate the percentage of wells that were dry during the years 2013–…
Frontiers of the food–energy–water trilemma
Food, energy, and water are three critical resources for humanity. As climate variability, population growth, and lifestyle changes amplify the stress placed on each of the resources, the interrelationships among food, energy, and water systems become more pronounced. Political conflict, social and cultural norms, and spatial and temporal distribution of the resources add additional layers of complexity. It is in this context that the significanc…
Insights on the Use of Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment for Environmental Footprinting
Insights on the Use of Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment for Environmental Footprinting
Frontiers of the food–energy–water trilemma
Food, energy, and water are three critical resources for humanity. As climate variability, population growth, and lifestyle changes amplify the stress placed on each of the resources, the interrelationships among food, energy, and water systems become more pronounced. Political conflict, social and cultural norms, and spatial and temporal distribution of the resources add additional layers of complexity. It is in this context that the significanc…
Dry groundwater wells in the western United States
Declining groundwater levels are common in parts of the western US, but their impact on the ability of wells to pump groundwater is not known. Here we collate groundwater well records for the western United States and present the recorded locations, depths, and purposes of more than two million groundwater wells constructed between 1950 and 2015. We then use the well records to estimate the percentage of wells that were dry during the years 2013–…
Competition for shrinking window of low salinity groundwater
Groundwater resources are being stressed from the top down and bottom up. Declining water tables and near-surface contamination are driving groundwater users to construct deeper wells in many US aquifer systems. This has been a successful short-term mitigation measure where deep groundwater is fresh and free of contaminants. Nevertheless, vertical salinity profiles are not well-constrained at continental-scales. In many regions, oil and gas activ…
Deeper well drilling an unsustainable stopgap to groundwater depletion
Groundwater Overreliance Leaves Farmers and Households High and Dry
Environmental risks and opportunities of orphaned oil and gas wells in the United States
Hundreds of thousands of documented and undocumented orphaned oil and gas wells exist in the United States (U.S.). These wells have the potential to contaminate water supplies, degrade ecosystems, and emit methane and other air pollutants. Thus, orphaned wells present risks to climate stability and to environmental and human health, which can be reduced by plugging. To quantify environmental risks and opportunities of well plugging at the nationa…
Environmental Science (7 works) · Geology (5 works) · Groundwater (5 works) · Hydrology (agriculture (4 works) · Water resource management (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (3 works) · Water scarcity (3 works)