REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
1. Pandit, A., B. Bras, E. A. Minné, E. Dunham-Jones, G. Augenbroe, H. Jeong, J.-A. C. James, J. P. Newell, M. Weissburg, M. A. Brown, M. E. Chang, M. Xu, M. M. Begovic, P. Yang, R. M. Fujimoto, S. P. French, V. M. Thomas, X. Yu, Y. Chen, Z. Lu, J. C. Crittenden. Infrastructure Ecology: An Evolving Paradigm for Sustainable Urban Development. Journal of Cleaner Production 163: S19-S27, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.09.010
2. Lee, D.-Y., and Thomas, V. M. Parametric Modeling Approach for Economic and Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Medium-Duty Trucks. J. Cleaner Production, 142 (4): 3300-3321, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.10.139
3. James, J.-A., Thomas, V. M., Pandit, A., Li, D., Crittenden, J. Water, air emissions, and cost impacts of air-cooled microturbines for combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) systems: A case study of in the Atlanta region. Engineering 2: 470-480, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/J.ENG.2016.04.008
4. Levin, T., Thomas, V. M. Can developing countries leapfrog the centralized electrification paradigm? Energy for Sustainable Development 31: 97-107, April 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2015.12.005
5. Kerl, P., Zhang, W., Moreno-Cruz, J., Nenes, A., Realff, M. Russell, A., Sokol, J., Thomas, V. M. New Approach for Optimal Electricity Planning and Dispatching with Hourly Time-Scale Air Quality and Health Considerations. PNAS 112 (35): 10884-10889, 2015. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1413143112
6. Lively, R. P., Sharma, P., Luo, D., McCool, B. A., Beaudry-Losique, J., Thomas, V. M., Realff, M., Chance, R. R. Anthropogenic CO2 as a Feedstock for the Production of Algal-based Biofuels. Biofuels Bioproducts & Biorefining 9(1): 72-81, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bbb.1505
7. Shayegh, S., Thomas, V. M. Adaptive Stochastic Integrated Assessment Modeling of Optimal Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions. Climatic Change 128 (1/2): 1-15, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1300-3
Industrial Ecology and Global Change, R. Socolow, C. Andrews, F. Berkhout and V. Thomas, eds. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994. Paperback edition 1996. http://www.amazon.com/Industrial-Ecology-Global-Change-Socolow/dp/0521577837

Energy in developing countries, biofuel and bioproducts, physics applications to industrial ecology, techno-economic assessment of biofuel, life cycle assessment, optimization methods in industrial ecology, technology policy, energy policy, environmental policy.