PATRICIA M. DE MARCO, Ph.D.

Patricia DeMarco has a thirty year career in energy and environmental policy development and implementation.

She received a Bachelor of Science and a Doctorate in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh.  She pursued a career in research at Yale University and at Boston University with a focus on mutation mechanisms.  She turned her attention to energy and environmental policy through her work as Executive Director of the Power Facilities Evaluation Council and as staff to the Governor of Connecticut on such issues as nuclear power plant safety, energy conservation, and clean fuels technology.  She worked as the manager of resource development for the Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Co-operative and, as a loaned executive,  started up a technology development firm to commercialize declassified defense technology.

She operated and sold her own business, the Energy Roundtable, which merged with another firm to become E Cubed Corporation, an energy trading company.  She moved to Alaska in 1998 to take the position of President of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation, served as a Commissioner of the Alaska Regulatory Commission, with jurisdiction over all electric, gas, water, refuse utilities and oil and gas pipelines.  For the last two years, she has served as Associate Dean for the College of Business and Public Policy at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

She returned to her hometown of Pittsburgh in September 2005, and is now the Executive Director of the Rachel Carson Homestead Association in Springdale, PA.