Thai Phan

Thai Phan’s research interests mainly focus on understanding water-rock interactions and other geological and environmental processes associated with water cycles in both natural and engineered natural systems. Scientific investigations apply integrated approaches including laboratory experiments, field surveys, and geochemical modeling, particularly utilizing radiogenic (e.g., Sr, Sm-Nd) and stable metal (e.g., Li, B, Ba, U) isotopes to study environmental problems associated with geological carbon sequestration and natural resource development such as hydrocarbon extraction and mining. He is also interested in investigating how abiotic and microbial processes fractionate the isotopic composition of metals, allowing metal isotopes to be reliably used as environmental tracers.

• Bioinformatics and Systematics; Mining Biological Data

• Contamination & Remediation: Water, Soil, Air

• Carbon Dioxide Capt

• 2012, Doctorate Environmental and Life Sciences, Trent University, Canada

• 2007, Master of Engineering Environmental and Engineering Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

• 2004, Bachelor's Chemical Engineering, University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Geological Society of America

• American Geophysical Union

• American Chemical Society

• EARTH 221 - Introductory Geochemistry
  • Taught in 2020, 2021
• EARTH 358 - Earth System Science
  • Taught in 2020

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• Phan, T.T., Paukert Vankeuren, A.N., Hakala, J.A. 2018. Roles of water–rock interactions in the geochemical evolution of Marcellus Shale produced waters. International Journal of Coal Geology. Publication Link

• Phan, T.T., Gardiner, J.B., Capo, R.C., Stewart, B.W., 2018. Geochemical and multi-isotopic (Li, Sr, Nd, U) perspectives of sediment sources, depositional conditions, and diagenesis of Marcellus Shale, Appalachian Basin. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. Publication Link

• Pfister, S., Capo, R.C., Stewart, B.W., Macpherson, G.L., Phan, T.T., Gardiner, J.B., Diehl, J.R., Lopano, C., Hakala, J.A., 2017. Geochemical and lithium isotope tracking of dissolved solid sources in Permian Basin carbonate reservoir and overlying aquifer waters at an enhanced oil recovery site, northwest Texas, USA Applied Geochemistry. Publication Link

• Phan, T.T., Capo, R.C., Stewart, B.W., Macpherson, G.L., Rowan, E.L, Hammack, R. W., 2016. Factors controlling Li concentration and isotopic composition in formation waters and host rocks of Marcellus Shale, Appalachian Basin. Chemical Geology. Publication Link

• Phan, T.T., Capo, R.C., Stewart, B.W., Graney, J.R., Johnson, J.D., Sharma, S., and Toro, J., 2015. Trace metal distribution and mobility in drill cuttings and produced waters from Marcellus Shale gas extraction: Uranium, arsenic, barium. Applied Geochemistry. Publication Link

• Macpherson, G.L., Capo, R.C., Stewart, B.W., Phan, T.T., Schroeder, K., and Hammack, R.W., 2014. Temperature-dependent Li isotope ratios in Appalachian Plateau and Gulf Coast Sedimentary Basin saline water. Geofluids, v. 14, p. 419-429. Publication Link

• Wall, A.J., Capo, R.C., Stewart, B.W., Phan, T.T., Jain, J.C., Hakala, J.A., and Guthrie, G.D., 2013. High throughput method for Sr extraction from variable matrix waters and 87Sr/86Sr isotope analysis by MC-ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 28, no. 8, p. 1338-1344. Publication Link