DrBill Magette

William L. Magette is an Emeritus Associate Professor in Civil (Environmental) Engineering, having joined UCD in 1997 as a College Lecturer (retiring in 2013). Immediately before joining UCD, he was a Research Officer with Teagasc in the Environment and Land Use Department at Johnstown Castle Research Centre, Wexford, Ireland. Prior to that he was an Associate Professor of Biological Resources Engineering and Assistant to the Dean of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland (USA). In 1992-93, Magette was a Fulbright Scholar to Ireland. In 1996, he received a Governor's Citation from the Honourable Parris N. Glendening, Governor of Maryland, for his public service in that state's catchment strategies to control pollution of the Chesapeake Bay. He began his professional career in 1975 as a Pollution Control Engineer with the Water Pollution Control Board in the Commonwealth of Virginia (USA). His research interests were in the application of engineering principles to protect and enhance environmental quality, particularly in the area of municipal and organic waste management, and in diffuse pollution identification and control. In the later part of his career he sought to integrate engineering principles, behavioural science, technology and policy to develop effective institutional structures for environmental management.