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Dr. Jordan F. Corbey is a chemist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), supporting national security. Corbey joined PNNL in 2015 and applies her knowledge to nuclear material processing and nuclear forensic research. She leads in the synthesis and analysis of F element species to support national security missions and manages interdisciplinary teams of experimentalists and computational scientists toward this effort.

Corbey mainly conducts work in PNNL’s hazard category II nuclear facility as a certified fissionable material handler and supervisor for independent radiological glove-box and fume-hood work with highly radioactive and fissile materials. She uses chemical, spectroscopic, and crystallographic techniques to characterize radiological material properties and is experienced in analytical tools for highly radioactive compounds, including nuclear magnetic resonance; electron paramagnetic resonance; Raman; fluorescence; ultraviolet, visible, and infrared spectroscopies; single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction; and elemental analysis.

• F element chemistry and characterization
• Nuclear material processing and properties
• Nuclear material aging
• Nuclear forensics
• Environmental transport of radioactive species

• PhD in inorganic chemistry, University of California, Irvine
• BS in chemistry/biochemistry, Eastern Washington University

• American Chemical Society (ACS) member since 2010

• Ronald L. Brodzinski Award for Early Career Exceptional Achievement, one of PNNL’s Director’s Awards for Science and Engineering Achievement, 2022
• Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate Outstanding Performance Award in recognition of exceptional efforts and significant contributions to the success of the Physical Sciences Division, 2017
• National Security Directorate Outstanding Performance Award for significant contributions and exceptional support to the Plutonium Oxide Lab Scale Platform and Statistical Design Project, 2016
• Physical and Computation Sciences Directorate Outstanding Performance Award for exceptional efforts and significant contribution to the success of the Longwave IR Signatures of Solids Project, 2016
• National Security Directorate Outstanding Performance Award for outstanding contributions and collaboration to the National Security Directorate, 2016

2022

• “A Comparison of Carbon Impurities in Pre- and Post-Melt Uranium, Part 1: Scanning Electron Microscopy Analysis” Matthew J. Olszta, Jordan F. Corbey, Matthew T. Athon, Zachary F. Huber, Dallas D. Reilly and David G. Abrecht J. Alloys Compd., 2022, 925, 166584.
• “A Comparison of Carbon Impurities in Pre- and Post-Melt Uranium, Part 2: Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Analysis” Matthew J. Olszta, Jordan F. Corbey, Dallas D. Reilly and David G. Abrecht J. Alloys Compd., 2022, 925, 166583.
• “Exercise Celestial Skónis: Part 2 – Emerging Technologies and State of Practice of Nuclear Forensic Analyses Demonstrated during the 6th Collaborative Materials Exercise of the Nuclear Forensics International Technical Working Group” Jon M. Schwantes, Jordan F. Corbey, Olivia Marsden Forensic Chem., 2022, doi.org/10.1016/j.forc.2022.100423.
• “Exercise Celestial Skónis: Part 1 – History, purpose, design and results of traditional forensic examinations of the 6th Collaborative materials exercise of the nuclear forensics International Technical Working Group” Jon M. Schwantes, Jordan F. Corbey, Olivia Marsden Forensic Chem., 2022, 29, 100424.
• “Quantitative morphological characterization of carbide inclusions in uranium metal” Matthew T. Athon, Dallas D. Reilly, Ian J. Schwerdt, Jordan F. Corbey, Matthew J. Olszta, Lucas E. Sweet Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2022, 558, 153370.
• “Solubility controls on plutonium and americium release in subsurface environments exposed to acidic processing wastes” Hilary P. Emerson, Sergey I. Sinkov, Carolyn I. Pearce, Kirk J. Cantrell, Calvin H. Delegard, Michelle M. V. Snyder, May-Lin Thomas, Dallas D. Reilly, Edgar C. Buck, Lucas Sweet, Amanda J. Casella, Jennifer C. Carter, Jordan F. Corbey, Ian J. Schwerdt, Richard Clark, Forrest D. Heller, David Meier, Mavrik Zavarin, Annie F. Kersting, Vicky L. Freedman Applied Geochemistry, 2022, doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105241.

2021

• “X‐ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry and evolved gas analysis of aged plutonium tetrafluoride (PuF4)” David M. Wayne, Jared T. Stritzinger, Amanda J. Casella, Lucas E. Sweet. Jordan F. Corbey, Daniel J. Garcia, E. Miller Wylie, Lav Tandon, Angela C. Olson, Jung Ho Rim J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 2021, doi.org/10.1007/s10967-021-07810-z.
• “Measurement of Local Magnetic Fields in Actinide Tetrafluorides” Eric D. Walter, Cigdem Capan, Amanda J. Casella, Jennifer C. Carter, Bruce K. McNamara, Chuck Z. Soderquist, Sergey I. Sinkov, Richard A. Clark, Forrest D. Heller, Lucas E. Sweet, Jordan F. Corbey, Herman M. Cho J. Chem. Phys, 2021, doi: 10.1063/5.0052323.
• “Quantitative Microstructural Characterization of Plutonium Oxalate Auto-Degradation and Evidence for PuO2 Nanocrystal Formation” Jordan F. Corbey, Lucas E. Sweet, Sergey I. Sinkov, Dallas D. Reilly, Cyrena M. Parker, Jason M. Lonergan and Timothy J. Johnson Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2021, doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202100511.
• “Modeling of induction stirring and particle tracking in molten uranium” David Abrecht, Jacob Bair, Jordan Corbey, Nikhil Deshmukh, William Frazier, Amanda Howard, Shenyang Hu, Rajesh Singh, PNNL-32020, 2021.
• “Exercise Celestial Skonis: 6th Collaborative Materials Exercise After Action Report” Jon M. Schwantes, Jordan F. Corbey, Olivia Marsden, PNNL-32028, 2021.

2020

• “Summary of Forensic Examinations in Support of Breach Sealed Source Event at Harborview Medical Facility on 2 May 2019” Jon M. Schwantes, Eric. M. Hanson, Jacob D. Bohlke, Jason R. Cartwright, Richard A. Clark, Jordan F. Corbey, Mark D. Engelmann, Kevin, L. Gervais, Lawrence R. Greenwood, Jason M. Lonergan, Lisa A. Middleton-Smith, Michael C. Miller, Robert D. Orton, Richard M. Pierson, Dallas D. Reilly, Franciska, H. Steen, Lucas E. Sweet, Nicolas E. Uhnak, PNNL-30053, 2020.
• “Characterization of Radiation Induced Defects Across Scales” Lucas E. Sweet, Jordan F. Corbey, Matteo Leoni, PNNL-3054, 2020.

2019

• “Extraction of Plutonium-Containing Microcrystals from Hanford Soil using a Focused Ion Beam for Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction Analysis” Jordan F. Corbey, Dallas D. Reilly, Lucas E. Sweet, and Timothy G. Lach J. Appl. Cryst. 2019, 52, 1244.
• “Phase field model of uranium carbide solidification through a combined KKS and orientation field approach” Jacob L. Bair, David G. Abrecht, Dallas D. Reilly, Matthew T. Athon and Jordan F. Corbey J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 2019, 31, 125901.
• “In Stream Monitoring of Off-Gasses from Plutonium Fluorination” Amanda Casella, Jennifer Carter, Amanda Lines, Job Bello, Sam Bryan, Richard Clark, Jordan Corbey, Calvin Delegard, Forrest Heller, Bruce McNamara, Lucas Sweet Actinide Research Quarterly 2019, 1, 31-35.
• “Fixed-Angle Reflectance from Uranium Compounds and U-Bearing Minerals: Experimental Challenges to Determine the Optical Constants n and k” Brent M. DeVetter, C. Tom Resch, Tanya L. Myers, Jordan F. Corbey, Molly Rose K. Kelly-Gorham, Bret D. Cannon, Nicole K. Scharko, Timothy J. Johnson Proc. of SPIE 2019, 11010, 110100S-1.
• “Synthesis of Plutonium Oxide Specimens for a Statistically Designed Nuclear Forensics Study” GJ Lumetta, JC Carter, RA Clark, JF Corbey, MK Edwards, FD Heller, BK McNamara, DE Meier, CM Parker, KL Pellegrini, BM Rapko, IJ Schwerdt, SI Sinkov, LE Sweet, JM Tingey, PNNL-28695, 2019.

2018

• “Crystallographic and Spectroscopic Characterization of Americium Complexes Containing the Bis[(phosphino)methyl]pyridine-1-oxide (NOPOPO) Ligand Platform” Jordan F. Corbey, Brian M. Rapko, Zheming Wang, Bruce K. McNamara, Robert G. Surbella III, Kristi L. Pellegrini, Jon M. Schwantes Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 2278.
• “Characterization of uranium ore concentrate chemical composition via Raman spectroscopy” Yin-Fong Su, Russell G. Tonkyn, Lucas E. Sweet, Jordan F. Corbey, Samuel A. Bryan, Timothy J. Johnson. Proc. of SPIE, 2018, 10629, 106290G-1.
• “Trace Element Migration During UF4 Bomb Reduction: Implications to Metal Fuel Production, Worker Health and Safety, and Nuclear Forensics” Dallas D. Reilly, Matthew T. Athon, Jordan F. Corbey, Ian I. Leavy, Kaylyn M. McCoy, Jon M. Schwantes Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2018, 510, 156.
• “Optical and Chemical Characterization of Uranium Dioxide (UO2) and Uraninite Mineral: Calculation of the Fundamental Optical Constants” Brent M. DeVetter, Tanya L. Myers, Bret D. Cannon, Nicole K. Scharko, Molly Rose K. Kelly-Gorham, Jordan F. Corbey, Alan L. Schemer-Kohrn, C. Tom Resch, Dallas D. Reilly, Timothy J. Johnson Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2018, 122, 7062.
• “Status Report on the Bench-Scale System for Preparing Plutonium Oxide Samples: First Twenty-Six Runs” GJ Lumetta, JC Carter, RA Clark, JF Corbey, MK Edwards, FD Heller, BK McNamara, DE Meier, CM Parker, KL Pellegrini, BM Rapko, SI Sinkov, LE Sweet, JM Tingey, PNNL-27955, 2018

2017

• “Structure and bonding investigation of plutonium peroxo-carbonate complexes using cerium surrogates and electronic structure modelling” Lucas E. Sweet, Jordan F. Corbey, Frederic Gendron, Jochen Autschbach, Bruce K. McNamara, Kate L. Ziegelgruber, Leah M. Arrigo, Shane M. Peper and Jon M. Schwantes, Inorganic Chemistry 2017, 56, 791.

• “Decomposition of diverse solid inorganic matrices with molten ammonium bifluoride salt for constituent elemental analysis” Matthew J. O’Hara, Cyndi M. Niver, Cyrena M. Parker, Samuel S. Morrison, Jordan F. Corbey, and Jay W. Grate, Chemical Geology, 2017, 5, 341.
• “Slow Magnetic Relaxation in a Dysprosium Ammonia Metallocene Complex” Selvan Demir, Monica D. Boshart, Jordan F. Corbey, David H. Woen, Miguel C. Gonzalez, Joseph W. Ziller, Katie R. Meihaus, Jeffrey R. Long, William J. Evans Inorganic Chemistry, 2017, 56, 15049.

2016

• “2,6-diiminopiperidin-1-ol: an overlooked motif relevant to uranyl and transition metal binding on poly(amidoxime) adsorbents” Zachary C. Kennedy, Allan J. P. Cardenas, Jordan F. Corbey, and Marvin G. Warner Chemical Communications, 2016, 52, 8802.
• “Synthesis and Structure of Nitrile-Solvated Rare Earth Metallocene Cations [Cp2Ln(NCR)3][BPh4] (Cp = C5Me5, C5H4SiMe3; R = Me, tBu, Ph)” Jordan F. Corbey, David H. Woen, Joseph W. Ziller, and William J. Evans Polyhedron, 2016, 103, 44.
• “Raman Spectroscopy of the N–N Bond in Rare Earth Dinitrogen Complexes” Megan E. Fieser, David H. Woen, Jordan F. Corbey, Thomas J. Mueller, Joseph W. Ziller, Filipp Furche, William J. Evans Dalton Transactions, 2016, 45, 14634.
• “Perspectives on Neutron Scattering in Lanthanide-Based Single-Molecule Magnets and a Case Study of the Tb2(µ-N2) System” Krunoslav Prša, Joscha Nehrkorn, Jordan F. Corbey, William J. Evans, Selvan Demir, Jeffrey R. Long, Tatiana Guidi and Oliver Waldmann Magnetochemistry, 2016, 2, 45.
• “Control of the third dimension in copper-based square-lattice antiferromagnets” Paul A. Goddard, John Singleton, Isabel Franke, Johannes S. Möller, Tom Lancaster, Andrew J. Steele, Craig V. Topping, Stephen J. Blundell, Francis L. Pratt, C. Baines, Jesper Bendix, Ross D. McDonald, Jamie Brambleby, Martin R. Lees, Saul H. Lapidus, Peter W. Stephens, Brendan W. Twamley, Marianne M. Conner, Kylee Funk, Jordan F. Corbey, Hope E. Tran, J. A. Schlueter, and Jamie L. Manson Phys. Rev. B, 2016, 93, 094430.

2015

• “Record High Single-Ion Magnetic Moments through 4fn5d1 Electron Configurations in the Divalent Lanthanide Complexes [(C5H4SiMe3)3Ln]−” Katie R. Meihaus, Megan E. Fieser, Jordan F. Corbey, William J. Evans, and Jeffrey R. Long Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, 137, 9855.
• “Ligand Effects in the Synthesis of Ln2+ Complexes by Reduction of Tris(cyclopentadienyl) Precursors Including C–H Bond Activation of an Indenyl Anion” Jordan F. Corbey, David H. Woen, Chad T. Palumbo, Megan E. Fieser, Joseph W. Ziller, Fillip Furche and William J. Evans Organometallics, 2015, 34, 3909.

2014

• “Magnetic Exchange in (N2)3− Bridged Bimetallic Rare Earth Single-Molecule Magnets Isolated Using an External NdFeB Magnet” Katie R. Meihaus, Jordan F. Corbey, Ming Fang, Joseph W. Ziller, Jeffrey R. Long, and William J. Evans Inorganic Chemistry, 2014, 53, 3099.
• “Co-crystallization of (µ-S2)2− and (µ-S)2− and Formation of an [η2-S3N(SiMe3)2] Ligand From Chalcogen Reduction by (N2)2− in a Bimetallic Yttrium Amide Complex” Jordan F. Corbey, Ming Fang, Joseph W. Ziller, and William J. Evans Inorganic Chemistry, 2014, 54, 801.

2012

• “Varying the Lewis Base Coordination of the Y2N2 Core in the Reduced Dinitrogen Complexes {[(Me3Si)2N]2(L)Y}2(μ-η2:η2-N2) (L = Benzonitrile, Pyridines, Triphenylphosphine Oxide, and Trimethylamine N-Oxide)” Jordan F. Corbey, Joy H. Farnaby, Jefferson E. Bates, Joseph W. Ziller, Filipp Furche and William J. Evans Inorganic Chemistry, 2012, 51, 7867.
• “Dimensionality Selection in a Molecule-Based Magnet” Paul A. Goddard, Jamie L. Manson, John Singleton, Isabel Franke, Tom Lancaster, Andrew J. Steele, Stephen J. Blundell, Christopher Baines, Francis L. Pratt, Ross D. McDonald, Oscar E. AyalaValenzuela, Jordan F. Corbey, Heather I. Southerland, Pinaki Sengupta, and John A. Schlueter Physical Review Letters, 2012, 108, 077208.

2011

• “Field-induced XY and Ising Ground States in a Quasi-Two-Dimensional S=1/2 Heisenberg Antiferromagnet” Yoshimitsu Kohama, Marcelo Jaime, Oscar E. Ayala-Valenzuela, Ross D. McDonald, Eun Deok Mun, Jordan F. Corbey, and Jamie L. Manson Physical Review B, 2011, 84, 184402.