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Michael C. Daley, Ph.D., P.E.Assistant Professor Economics Biographical sketch: My educational background is in chemical engineering and economics. I received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maine Orono and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. While completing my doctorate in the 1990's and as recently as 2003, I worked as an environmental engineer specializing in air permitting, and during part of that time I was part owner of a three-person environmental consulting firm. In 2002, I accepted a visiting assistant professor position at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and a year later a tenure-tracked assistant professor position at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. At UNE I am developing an economics minor that includes course offerings in environmental and ecological economics. As well, I am teaching in a Green Learning Community, a year-long program for first-year environmental and marine biology students that integrates the disciplines of environmental studies, biology, literature and economics. I have served for three years as co-chair of the Environmental Council, overseeing its creation as an advisory and advocacy body reporting to the president of the university. Candidate Statement: I think my contribution to the USSEE governance and society would involve three different threads: my practical experience as an environmental engineer and experience I gained creating the Environmental Council as a vehicle to promote sustainable practices on campus; my experience teaching ecological and environmental economics and commitment to working with the next generation of ecological economists; and, my research interest in methodological issues centering on the question of pluralism and what this may mean to the ecological economics research program moving forward. Finally, it would be an honor to serve on the Board of the United States Society for Ecological Economics. |