Following his post-doctoral fellowship inBuffalo, in 1977, Thalmann returned to NEDU, now located inPanama City, Florida, as Assistant Senior Medical Officer, where he began developing new dive tables and mixed-gas diving techniques.[5][2] While at NEDU, Thalmann created a number of unique and innovative underwater exercise devices, still in use today, intended to assist in gauging the underwater endurance of divers using various gas mixtures while performing physically demanding tasks.[6]
In 1985, Thalmann, at that time the Senior Medical Officer at NEDU, was selected for the NATO Undersea Medicine Personnel Exchange Program and assigned to the Royal NavyInstitute of Naval Medicine,Alverstoke,United Kingdom. There he continued development of a new decompression table and worked on improving undersea thermal protection garments. Upon the conclusion of his exchange tour in 1987, Thalmann returned to Bethesda to serve as the commander of theNaval Medical Research Institute's diving medicine and physiology research division.
Following his retirement from the Navy in 1993, Thalmann stayed on at NMRI as a senior scientist in decompression research.[7] In July 1994 took a position inDurham, North Carolina at Duke's Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology and later accepted a simultaneous position as the Assistant Medical Director of DAN in 1995.
Based on scientific studies of gas exchange in human tissues, further informed by his supervision of hundreds of experimental dives, Thalmann developed his namesake mathematical algorithm to protect divers fromdecompression sickness. TheThalmann algorithm was the basis for a new set ofdecompression tables that provided more flexibility for diving time, depth, gas mixtures and pressures. The algorithm was also used for developing wearabledive computers to manage complex individual dives. Thalmann's research ultimately improved decompression safety for military divers,recreational divers, and evenastronauts.[7]
Raymond, L. W.; J. H. Crothers; G. Lindgren; E. D. Thalmann; W. H. Spaur; W. R. Braithwaite; H. C. Langworthy; T. E. Berghage (1973). "Indirect calorimetry in man in helium-oxygen at 50 atmospheres pressure".Clin. Res.21 (4): 848.
Van Liew, H. D.; E. D. Thalmann; D. K. Sponholtz (1981). "Diffusive gas mixing in the lung in hyperbaric environments".Prog. Resp. Res. Progress in Respiratory Research.16:110–114.doi:10.1159/000395131.ISBN978-3-8055-1638-9.
Piantadosi, C. A.; E. D. Thalmann (2004). "Pathology: whales, sonar and decompression sickness".Nature.428 (6984): 1 p following 716, discussion 2 p following 716.doi:10.1038/nature02527a.PMID15085881.S2CID4391838.
Butler, F. K.; E. D. Thalmann. (1984)."Oxygen Toxicity in Closed-Circuit SCUBA Divers".Navy Exp. Diving Unit Res. Report.11–84. Archived from the original on August 29, 2008. Retrieved2008-03-16.
Thalmann, E. D. (1985). "Repetitive/Multi-Level Dive Procedures for Constant 0.7 ATA Oxygen Partial Pressure in Nitrogen Diving".Navy Exp. Diving Unit Res. Report.9–85.
Thalmann, E. D.; R. Schedlich; J.R. Broome; P.E. Barker (1987). "Evaluation of Passive Thermal Protection Systems for Cold Water Diving".(Royal Navy) Institute of Naval Medicine Report. Alverstoke, England.25–87.
Albin, G.; P. Massell; E. D. Thalmann (1990). "Basic Operation and Preliminary Trials of a Detector for Stationary Gas Bubbles".Naval Medical Research Institute Report.91–39.
Thorp, J. W.; D.M. Stevens; A.J. Dutka; T.J. Doubt; E.D. Thalmann (1992). "Pyridostigmine Prophylaxis During Warm Water Diving Operations".Navy Medicine.83 (1):23–26.
Survanshi SS, Weathersby PK, Homer LD, Thalmann ED. Design of Dive Trials. In: Lang MA, Vann RD eds:AAUS Repetitive Dive Workshop. Costa Mesa, CA. American Academy of Underwater Scientists, 1992:287-292.
Ball, R.; J. Himm; L. D. Homer; E. D. Thalmann (1994). "A Model of Bubble Evolution During Decompression Based on a Monte Carlo Simulation of Inert Gas Diffusion".Naval Medical Research Institute Report.94–36.
Survanshi, S. S.; E. C. Parker; E. D. Thalmann; P. K. Weathersby (1997). "Statistically based decompression tables XII: Volume I. Repetitive decompression tables for air and constant 0.7 ata PO2 in N2 using a probabilistic model".Naval Medical Research Institute Report.97–36.
Survanshi, S. S.; E. C. Parker; E. D. Thalmann; P. K. Weathersby (1997). "Statistically based decompression tables XII: Volume II. Repetitive dive tables: Air".Naval Medical Research Institute Report.97–36.
Survanshi, S. S.; E. C. Parker; E. D. Thalmann; P. K. Weathersby (1997). "Statistically based decompression tables XII: Volume III. Exceptional exposure tables: Air".Naval Medical Research Institute Report.97–36.
Survanshi, S. S.; E. C. Parker; E. D. Thalmann; P. K. Weathersby (1997). "Statistically based decompression tables XII: Volume IV. Repetitive dive tables: 0.7 ATA PO2 in N2".Naval Medical Research Institute Report.97–36.
Survanshi, S. S.; E. C. Parker; E. D. Thalmann; P. K. Weathersby (1997). "Statistically based decompression tables XII: Volume V. Exceptional exposure tables: 0.7 ATA PO2 in N2".Naval Medical Research Institute Report.97–36.
Gerth, W. A.; E. D. Thalmann. (1998). "Vascular Effects of Underwater Low Frequency Sound in Immersed Individuals".Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory Report.
Hamilton, R. W. Jr.; E. D. Thalmann; D. J. Temple (2002)."Surface Decompression Diving: Data Report on Protocol 90-02".Naval Medical Research Institute Report Report. ADA455075. Archived from the original on April 15, 2013. Retrieved2008-03-16.
Vann, R.D; E.D. Thalmann (1993). "Decompression Modeling and Physiology". In Bennett, P.B.; Elliott, D.H. (eds.).The Physiology and Medicine of Diving and Compressed Air Work (Fourth ed.). London: Bailliere Tindall.OCLC2000230.
Invited Reviewer for: "Treatment of decompression sickness", Chapter 13. In:Edmonds, C.; Lowry, C.; Pennefather, J. (1992).Diving and Subaquatic Medicine (Third ed.). Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.OCLC24009565.
Thalmann, E.D. (1996). "Gas Physiology in Diving: Decompression". In Fregley, M.J.; C.M. Batteis (eds.).Handbook of Physiology, Section 4: Environmental Physiology Volume II. New York: The American Physiological Society. Oxford University Press. pp. 1012–1015.
Thalmann, E.D. (1997). "Diving Hazards". In Langley, R.L; McLymore, R.L.; Meggs, W.J.; Roberson, G.T. (eds.).Safety and Health in Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries. Rockville, MD: Government Institutes.OCLC35750471.
^Southerland, D.G.; Butler, F.K. (2001). "The U.S. Navy Dive Computer".MTS/IEEE Oceans 2001. An Ocean Odyssey. Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.01CH37295). Vol. 2. pp. 900–904.doi:10.1109/OCEANS.2001.968236.ISBN0-933957-28-9.S2CID108869860.(subscription required)
^Burkard, Tom."Yearbook—Sayreville 1962",The South Amboy – Sayreville Times, April 20, 2002. Retrieved October 1, 2015. Confirmed by Thalmann's Duke University colleagueGene Hobbs.
^"In Memoriam".Rensselaer Magazine.Rensselaer Alumni Association. Winter 2004. Archived from the original on February 21, 2013.
^Anecdotal information provided by Thalmann's daughters.
^abPianadosi, Claude (Fall 2004)."In Memoriam: Edward Deforest Thalmann, 1945–2004"(PDF).Duke Anesthesiology Alumnus. Duke University Department of Anesthesiology. p. 1. Archived from the original on June 12, 2007.
^Rausch, C.S. (2004-08-31). "Letter from Commanding Officer, USSMaryland to Ms. Katherine N. Thalmann". Department of the Navy.