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Dr. James Corbett is an Assistant Professor in the Marine Policy Program at the University of Delaware’s Graduate College of Marine Studies. He holds a Ph.D. (1999) in Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) from Carnegie Mellon University, where he also earned M.S. degrees in the Department of EPP (1997) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering (1998). His undergraduate work was in Marine Engineering Technology at the California Maritime Academy, and he holds a California Professional Engineering License (Mechanical). Dr. Corbett’s experience includes work as a licensed engineer in the U.S. Merchant Marine, industrial operations, and engineering and environmental consulting supporting industry and government.
Dr. Corbett’s research has focused on transportation and environment, including groundbreaking research on air emissions from maritime transport, environmental impacts of freight transportation, and an engineering assessment of technological control strategies. His work includes both theoretical and empirical research areas, which are crucial to important decisions in environmental, maritime, and technology policy. Results of his air emissions research have become central in the international efforts to develop a more sustainable marine transportation system (MTS), and are motivating new lines of funded research from a variety of sources in both industry and government. He is also working on evaluating technology policy alternatives for ballast water management to reduce invasive species introductions by ships, and on risk assessment techniques to evaluate whale strike mitigation measures.
He has published more than twenty peer-reviewed papers and five book chapters on air pollution from marine vessels and multimodal transportation, including technology policy and legal analyses. He is a coauthor of several studies that have informed policy makers in the U.S. and internationally, and conducted several projects analyzing policy alternatives including market-based incentives.
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