Nancy Lauer

Lecturing Fellow of Law

School of Law

nancy.lauer@law.duke.edu

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Quantifying Riverine Plastic Pollution Using Participatory Science and Trash Traps

Journal Article Community Science · 2025 Link to item Cite

The Social Cost of Plastic to the United States

Report · 2025 Open Access Link to item Cite

Inequitable Distribution of Plastic Benefits and Burdens on Economies and Public Health

Journal Article Frontiers in Marine Science · 2023 Link to item Cite

A Framework for Inland Cities to Prevent Marine Debris: A Case Study from Durham, North Carolina

Journal Article Frontiers in Marine Science · 2022 Link to item Cite

Multiple Geochemical and Isotopic (Boron, Strontium, Carbon) Indicators for Reconstruction of the Origin and Evolution of Oilfield Water from Jiuquan Basin, Northwestern China

Journal Article Applied Geochemistry · 2021 Link to item Cite

Accuracy of Methods for Reporting Inorganic Element Concentrations and Radioactivity in Oil and Gas Wastewaters from the Appalachian Basin, U.S. Based on an Inter-Laboratory Comparison

Journal Article Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts · 2019 Link to item Cite

Sources of Radium Accumulation in Stream Sediments Near Disposal Sites in Pennsylvania: Implications for Disposal of Conventional Oil and Gas Wastewater

Journal Article Environmental Science & Technology · 2018 Link to item Cite

The Water Footprint of Hydraulic Fracturing in Sichuan Basin, China

Journal Article Science of The Total Environment · 2018 Link to item Cite

Origin of Flowback and Produced Waters from Sichuan Basin, China

Journal Article Environmental Science & Technology · 2018 Link to item Cite

Strontium Isotope Ratios in Fish Otoliths as Biogenic Tracers of Coal Combustion Residual Inputs to Freshwater Ecosystems

Journal Article Environmental Science & Technology Letters · 2018 Link to item Cite

The Intensification of the Water Footprint of Hydraulic Fracturing

Journal Article Science Advances · 2018 Link to item Cite

Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials in Uranium-Rich Coals and Associated Coal Combustion Residues from China

Journal Article Environmental Science & Technology · 2017 Link to item Cite

Brine Spills Associated with Unconventional Oil Development in North Dakota

Journal Article Environmental Science & Technology · 2016 Link to item Cite

Age Dating Oil and Gas Wastewater Spills Using Radium Isotopes and Their Decay Products in Impacted Soil and Sediment

Journal Article Environmental Science & Technology Letters · 2016 Link to item Cite

Cosmogenic 22Na as a Steady-State Tracer of Solute Transport and Water Age in First-Order Catchments

Journal Article Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2016 Link to item Cite

Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials in Coals and Coal Combustion Residuals in the United States

Journal Article Environmental Science & Technology · 2015 Link to item Cite