Tiffany Thomas


Currently
Senior Staff Scientist
Miller Brooks Environmental, Inc.
202 East Earll Drive, Suite 470
Phoenix, AZ 85012
Ph: (602) 728-0577 ext 29
Cell: (623) 824-4320
tthomas@millerbrooksenv.com

Curriculum Vitae


Professional Associations
Mineralogical Society of America
AXΣ

Honors and Awards

Student Employee Graduate Research Fellowship, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2/02 to 7/04.

Nanosciences in the Environment and Technology – Integrated Graduate Education, Research, and Training Fellowship, UC Davis 7/01 to 7/04.

Borge Fellowship (merit based), Dept. of Chemistry, UC Davis, 10/00 to 6/02.

Outstanding Chemistry Undergraduate, NAU, 5/00.

Hooper Undergraduate Research Fellowship, NAU, 08/99 to 6/00.

NASA Space Grant, NAU, 07/98 to 08/99.

Arizona State Regents Award, NAU, 07/98-05/00.

 


Post Doctoral Associate
Aug. 2004- Aug. 2005


Education

Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, University of California, Davis.  June 2004.

Dissertation:  Archerite (KH2PO4) Growth Morphology and Kinetics in the Presence of Surface Adsorbates.
Research director: William H. Casey
Advisors: Terry A. Land, and James J. DeYoreo at Lawrence Livermore Nat’l Lab

Bachelor of Science, ACS Environmental Chemistry, Northern Arizona University, May 2000.  Summa Cum Laude.

 

Publications

T. N. Thomas, T. A. Land, M. Johnson, and W. H. Casey. 2004. “Molecular Properties of Adsorbates that Affect the Growth Kinetics of Archerite (KDP).”  J. Colloid Interface Sci., In Press

T. N. Thomas, T. A. Land, W. H. Casey, and J. J. DeYoreo. 2004. “In situ AFM Investigation of the {100} Face of KDP in the Presence of Fe(III), Al(III), and Cr(III)” Langmuir, 20 (18), 7643-7652.

T. N. Thomas, T. A. Land, W. H. Casey, and J. J. DeYoreo. 2004. “The Emergence of Supersteps on KH2PO4 Crystal Surfaces”  Phys. Rev. Lett., 92 (21), 216103-1 – 216103-4.

T. N. Thomas, T. A. Land, T. M. Martin, W.H. Casey, and J.J. DeYoreo, 2003. “AFM investigation of step kinetics and hillock morphology on the {100} face of KDP”  J. Cryst. Growth, 260 (3-4), 566-579.

S. La Spica, M. Waldheim, J. Lintemoot, T. Thomas, J. Naff, and M. Robinson, 2001 “Infrared and vapor flux studies of vapor-deposited amorphous and crystalline water ice films between 90 and 145 K” J. Geophys. Research, 102, 33351-33361.

 

 


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