The Wilkes University Institute for Energy and Environmental Research of Northeastern PA will host a presentation by Dr. Simona Perry on the Community and Environmental Health Implications of Shale Gas Development on November 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Stark Learning Center in Wilkes-Barre.

Dr. Perry will share some of the observations and analyses from on-going ethnographic fieldwork in Marcellus shale gas communities of the Endless Mountains in Pennsylvania from 2009-2012.

The ethnographer's toolbox has within it a variety of methods for describing and analyzing the everyday lives of human beings that can be used to provide public health practitioners, environmental scientists, and policy makers with information on some of the harder to monitor psychological, socio-cultural, and environmental factors that may lead to chronic stress and conflicts in individuals and communities.

Dr. Perry will also talk about studies going on in other shale communities in Pennsylvania, New York, Texas, Colorado, Alberta and Quebec.

Click Here to download a flyer on the event.

10/22/2012