You can find my publications on my Google Scholar webpage.
Journal Articles
† = Student author, directly supervised by Wen at time of publication
†† = Student author of collaborator(s) at time of publication
2024
††Shaheen, S., Wen, T., Zheng, Z., Xue, L., Baka, J. and Brantley, S.L., 2024. Wastewaters Coproduced with Shale Gas Drive Slight Regional Salinization of Groundwater. Environmental Science & Technology.
PDF DOI Hammond, P.A., Wen, T., Woda, J. and Oakley, D., 2024. Pathways and environmental impacts of methane migration: case studies in the Marcellus Shale, USA. Geofluids.
PDF DOI Liu, Y., Wang, T., Wen, T., Zhang, J., Liu, B., Li, Y., Zhang, H., Rong, X., Ma, L., Guo, F., Liu, X and Sun, Y., 2024. Deep learning-based grain size decomposition model: A feasible solution for dealing with methodological uncertainty. Sedimentology.
PDF DOI †Nesheim, S., Yu, Z., Tuttle, S., †Klein, J. and Wen, T., 2024. Assessing impacts of cemeteries on water quality in an urban headwater watershed with mixed human-built infrastructure. Hydrological Processes.
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2023
Kang, M., Boutot, J., McVay, R.C., Roberts, K., Jasechko, S., Perrone, D., Wen, T., Lackey, G., Raimi, D., Digiulio D.C., Shonkoff, S.B., Carey, J.W., Elliott, E.G., Vorhees, D.J. and Peltz, A., 2023. Environmental risks and opportunities of orphaned oil and gas wells in the United States. Environmental Research Letters.
PDF DOI ††Shaughnessy, A.R., ††Forgeng, M.J., Wen, T., Gu, X., Hemingway, J. and Brantley, S.L., Linking Stream Chemistry to Subsurface Redox Architecture. Water Resources Research.
PDF DOI †E, B., Zhang, S., Driscoll, C.T. and Wen, T., Human and natural impacts on the U.S. freshwater salinization and alkalinization: A machine learning approach. Science of The Total Environment.
PDF DOI Carter, E., Hultquist, C. and Wen, T., 2023. GRRIEn analysis: a data science cheat sheet for earth scientists learning from global earth observations. Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems.
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2022
Cheng, P., Xiao, X., Ren, B., Wen, T. and Yu, S., 2022. Editorial: New advances in light oil/condensate geochemistry. Frontiers in Earth Science.
PDF DOI †Epuna, F., ††Shaheen, S. and Wen, T., 2022. Road Salting and Natural Brine Migration Revealed as Major Sources of Groundwater Contamination Across Regions of Northern Appalachia With and Without Unconventional Oil and Gas Development. Water Research.
PDF DOI Wen, T., ††Chen, C., Zheng, G., Bandstra, J. and Brantley, S.L., 2022. Using a Neural Network – Physics-based Hybrid Model to Predict Soil Reaction Fronts. Computers & Geosciences.
PDF DOI ††Shaheen, S.W., Wen, T., Herman, A., Brantley, S.L., 2022. Geochemical Evidence of Potential Groundwater Contamination with Human Health Risks Where Hydraulic Fracturing Overlaps with Extensive Legacy Hydrocarbon Extraction. Environmental Science & Technology.
PDF DOI ††Wang, S., Huang, X., Wen, T., Wang, X., Wang, H., Han, Y., Li, Z., Kuang, J. and Qi S., 2022. Noble Gases in Shallow Aquifers Preserve Signatures of Boiling Events beneath Weishan Volcano of Wudalianchi Volcanic Field, Northeast China. Journal of Hydrology.
PDF DOI Boumaiza, L., Walter, J., Chesnaux, R., Stotler, R., Wen, T., Johannesson K., Brindha K. and Huneau, F., 2022. Chloride-salinity as indicator of the chemical composition of groundwater: empirical predictive model based on aquifers in Southern Quebec, Canada. Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
PDF DOI He, Y., Zhou, Y., Wen, T., Zhang, S., Huang, F., Zou, X., Ma, X., Zhu, Y., 2022. A review of machine learning in geochemistry and cosmochemistry: Method improvements and applications. Applied Geochemistry.
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2021
Brantley, S.L., Wen, T., Agarwal, D., Catalano, J.G., Schroeder, P.A., Lehnert, K., Varadharajan, C., Pett-Ridge, J., Engle, M., Castronova, A.M., Hooper, R.P., Ma, X., Jin, L., McHenry, K., Aronson, E., Shaughnessy, A.R., Derry, L.A., Richardson, J., Bales, J., Pierce, E.M., 2021. The future low-temperature geochemical data-scape as envisioned by the U.S. geochemical community. Computers & Geosciences.
PDF DOI Liu, R., Wen, T., Amalberti, J., Zheng, J., Hao, F. and Jiang D., 2021. The Dichotomy in Noble Gas Signatures Linked to Tectonic Deformation in Wufeng-Longmaxi Shale, Sichuan Basin. Chemical Geology.
PDF DOI Zheng, G., Liu, C., Wei, H., Jenkins, P., Chen, C., Wen, T. and Li, Z., 2021. Knowledge-based Residual Learning. In Proceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021).
PDF DOI Wen, T., Liu, M., Woda, J., Zheng, G. and Brantley, S.L., 2021. Detecting anomalous methane in groundwater within hydrocarbon production areas across the United States. Water Research.
PDF DOI ††Shaughnessy, A., Gu, X., Wen, T. and Brantley, S.L., 2021. Machine Learning Deciphers CO2 Sequestration and Subsurface Flowpaths from Stream Chemistry. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.
PDF DOI Niu, X., Wen, T. and Brantley, S.L., 2021. Exploring the trend of stream sulfate concentrations as U.S. power plants shift from coal to shale gas. Environmental Pollution.
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Prior to 2021
††Agarwal, A., Wen, T., ††Chen, A., ††Zhang, A.Y., Niu, X., Zhan, X., Xue, L., Brantley, S.L., 2020. Assessing Contamination of Stream Networks Near Shale Gas Development Using a New Geospatial Tool. Environmental Science & Technology.
PDF DOI ††Woda, J., Wen, T., Lemon, J., ††Marcon, V., Keeports, C.M., Zelt, F., Steffy, L.Y. and Brantley, S.L., 2020. Methane concentrations in streams reveal gas leak discharges in regions of oil, gas, and coal development. Science of The Total Environment.
PDF DOI Hammond, P.A., Wen, T., Brantley, S.L. and Engelder, T., 2020. Gas well integrity and methane migration: evaluation of published evidence during shale-gas development in the USA. Hydrogeology Journal.
PDF DOI ††Shaughnessy, A., Wen, T., Niu, X. and Brantley, S.L., 2019. Three Principles to Use in Streamlining Water Quality Research through Data Uniformity. Environmental Science & Technology.
PDF DOI Wen, T., ††Woda, J., ††Marcon, V., Niu, X., Li, Z. and Brantley, S.L., 2019. Exploring How to Use Groundwater Chemistry to Identify Migration of Methane near Shale Gas Wells in the Appalachian Basin. Environmental Science & Technology.
PDF DOI Liu, R., Heinemann, N., Liu, J., Zhu, W., Wilkinson, M., Xie, Y., Wang, Z., Wen, T., Hao, F., Haszeldine, S.R., 2019. CO2 Sequestration by Mineral Trapping in Natural Analogues in the Yinggehai Basin, South China Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology.
PDF DOI Wen, T., ††Agarwal, A., Xue, L., ††Chen, A., Herman, A., Li, Z. and Brantley, S.L., 2019. Assessing Changes in Groundwater Chemistry in Landscapes with More than 100 Years of Oil and Gas Development. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts.
PDF DOI ††Woda, J., Wen, T., ††Oakley, D., Yoxtheimer, D., Engelder, T., Castro, M.C. and Brantley, S.L., 2018. Detecting and Explaining Why Aquifers Occasionally Become Degraded Near Hydraulically Fractured Shale Gas Wells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
PDF DOI Larson, T.E., Nicot, J.P., Mickler, P., Castro, M.C., Darvari, R., Wen, T. and Hall, C.M., 2018. Monitoring Stray Natural Gas in Groundwater with Dissolved Nitrogen. An Example from Parker County, Texas. Water Resources Research.
PDF DOI Wen, T., Niu, X., Gonzales, M., ††Zheng, G., Li, Z. and Brantley, S.L., 2018. Big groundwater data sets reveal possible rare contamination amid otherwise improved water quality for some analytes in a region of Marcellus Shale development. Environmental Science & Technology.
PDF DOI Niu, X., Wen, T., Li, Z. and Brantley, S.L., 2018. One Step toward Developing Knowledge from Numbers in Regional Analysis of Water Quality. Environmental Science & Technology.
PDF DOI Wen, T., Pinti, D.L., Castro, M.C., López-Hernández, A., Hall, C.M., Shouakar-Stash, O. and Sandoval-Medina, F., 2018. A Noble Gas and 87Sr/86Sr Study in Fluids of the Los Azufres Geothermal Field, Mexico – Assessing Impact of Exploitation and Constraining Heat Sources. Chemical Geology.
PDF DOI Brantley, S.L., Vidic, R.D., Brasier, K., Yoxtheimer, D., Pollak, J., Wilderman, C. and Wen, T., 2018. Engaging over data on fracking and water quality. Science.
PDF DOI Wen, T., Castro, M.C., Nicot, J.P., Hall, C.M., Pinti, D.L., Mickler, P., Darvari, R. and Larson, T., 2017. Characterizing the noble gas isotopic composition of the Barnett Shale and Strawn group and constraining the source of stray gas in the Trinity Aquifer, north-central Texas. Environmental Science & Technology.
PDF DOI Wen, T., Castro, M.C., Nicot, J.P., Hall, C.M., Larson, T., Mickler, P. and Darvari, R., 2016. Methane Sources and Migration Mechanisms in Shallow Groundwaters in Parker and Hood Counties, Texas - A Heavy Noble Gas Analysis. Environmental Science & Technology.
PDF DOI Wen, T., Castro, M.C., Ellis, B.R., Hall, C.M. and Lohmann, K.C., 2015. Assessing compositional variability and migration of natural gas in the Antrim Shale in the Michigan Basin using noble gas geochemistry. Chemical Geology.
PDF DOI Wen, T., Castro, M.C., Hall, C.M., Pinti, D.L. and Lohmann, K.C., 2015. Constraining groundwater flow in the Glacial Drift and Saginaw aquifers in the Michigan Basin through helium concentrations and isotopic ratios. Geofluids.
PDF DOI Boucher, C., Pinti, D.L., Roy, M., Castro, M.C., Cloutier, V., Blanchette, D., Larocque, M., Hall, C.M., Wen, T. and Sano, Y., 2015. Groundwater age investigation of eskers in the Amos region, Quebec, Canada. Journal of Hydrology.
PDF DOI Nie, Y., Liu, X., Wen, T., Sun, L. and Emslie, S.D., 2014. Environmental implication of nitrogen isotopic composition in ornithogenic sediments from the Ross Sea region, East Antarctica: Δ15N as a new proxy for avian influence. Chemical Geology.
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Chapters in Books
Wen, T., 2021. Data Mining. In: Daya Sagar, B.S., Cheng, Q., McKinley, J., Agterberg, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematical Geosciences. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. 4pp.
PDF DOI Wen, T., 2020. Data Sharing. In: Schintler L., McNeely C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. 3pp.
PDF DOI Wen, T., 2020. Data Aggregation. In: Schintler L., McNeely C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. 4pp.
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Reports and Theses
Wen, T., 2017. Development of Noble Gas Techniques to Fingerprint Shale Gas and to Trace Sources of Hydrocarbons in Groundwater (Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan).
PDF URL Nicot, JP., et al., 2015. Understanding and Managing Environmental Roadblocks to Shale Gas Development: An Analysis of Shallow Gas, NORM, and Trace Metals (Technical Report, http://www.rpsea.org/projects/11122-56/).
Wen, T., 2014. Constraining groundwater flow in the Glacial Drift and Saginaw Aquifers in the Michigan Basin through helium concentrations and isotopic ratios (Master thesis, University of Michigan).
Wen, T., 2011. Analysis on nitrogen species and isotopic composition of the ornithogenic sediments from Cape Bird, Ross Island, East Antarctica (Bachelor thesis, University of Science and Technology of China).
Preprints and Postprints
Agarwal, A., Wen, T., Chen, A., Zhang, A.Y., Niu, X., Zhan, X., Xue, L., Brantley, S.L., 2020. Assessing Contamination of Stream Networks Near Shale Gas Development Using a New Geospatial Tool. EarthArXiv.
PDF DOI Woda, J., Wen, T., Lemon, J., Marcon, V., Keeports, C.M., Zelt, F., Steffy, L.Y. and Brantley, S.L., 2020. Methane concentrations in streams reveal gas leak discharges in regions of oil, gas, and coal development. EarthArXiv.
PDF DOI Zheng, G., Liu, M., Wen, T., Wang, H., Yao, H., Brantley, S.L. and Li, Z., 2019. Targeted Source Detection for Environmental Data. arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.11056.
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Open Access Datasets
Wen, T., Woda, J., Marcon, V., Gonzales, M., Niu, X., Herman, A., Guarnieri, M., Li, Z., Brantley, S.L., 2019. Shale Network – Statewide Groundwater in Pennsylvania as of January 2019, Data Commons, Penn State University.
DOI Wen, T., Gonzales, M., Niu, X., Herman, A., Guarnieri, M., Li, Z., Brantley, S.L., 2018. Shale Network – Mercer County Groundwater as of August 2018, Data Commons, Penn State University.
DOI Wen, T., Woda, J., Gonzales, M., Herman, A., Brantley, S.L., 2018. Shale Network – Lycoming County Groundwater as of October 2018, Data Commons, Penn State University.
DOI Wen, T., Gonzales, M., Niu, X., Herman, A., Guarnieri, M., Li, Z., Brantley, S.L., 2018. Shale Network – Bradford County Groundwater as of May 2018, Data Commons, Penn State University.
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