Douglas J. Daley, P.E.

Department of Environmental Resources Engineering

 
 

Welcome

You'll find information on these public pages about my interests and activities in ecological engineering, waste management, and brownfields. I'm interested in developing innovative designs using an interdisciplinary approach combining fundamental engineering and science principles to address contemporary environmental problems such as stormwater management, water quality and waste disposal.

My courses and research interests bridge related topics in engineering design, phytotechnology, and green infrastructure. I strive to combine class instruction with relevant "real-world" projects, which are described further on the following pages.

Please contact me if you are interested in studying at SUNY ESF, or have any questions regarding these projects.

Septermber 2011: I am joined by five new Master's students (4 in ERE 1 in GPES). Sam and Steph are working on the Honeywell-sponsored Demonstration Projects involving willow-based landfill cover and the salt marsh restoration. We are updating the water budgets, estimating ET using eddy covariance methods and examining nutrient fluxes in the vadose zone.

August 2011: Hurricane Irene gave us a long duration, low intensity rain event that our on-campus Rain Garden handled well. We are seeing a number of plant species pioneering the rain garden, making for interesting conversations about the proper way to manage rain gardens in urban environments (Do we let the Purple Loostrife live, or remove it? what about the poison ivy?)

May 2010: Deborah Ofori completed her MS Environmental Resources Engineering with a thesis entitled Heat and Water Fluxes in a Willow-based Evapotranspiration Landfill Cover System. Deborah compared model results with field measurements of temperature and humidity in a short-rotation woody crop as part of the continuing demonstration of an alternative landfill cover system in Central New York.

January 2010: I spent a week in New Orleans on the continuing relief effort from Hurricane Katrina. This was my first trip, and the impacts of Katrina are amply evident: buckling streets; vacant lots; freshly painted exteriors; parking lots surrounded by chain link fence. SUNY ESF and SU students joined the SU Protestant Campus Ministry in the effort. See the story at http://www.esf.edu/communications/view.asp?newsID=324

December 2009: I attended the 6th Phytotechnologies Conference in St. Loius, MO. I presented a poster on the ET Landfill cover at the Solvay Settling Basins.My graduate student Michael Amadori received an NSF-sponsored scholarship to attend the conference.

November 2009: Deborah Ofori concluded her field efforts at produring temperature and humidity data to characterize water and heat fluxes in the short rotation willow canopy we are investigating as an ET cover at the Solvay Settling Basins (Honeywell sponsored).

September 2009: I commenced the first offering of a graduate course in Phytotechnologies. New graduate students Michael Amadori and Chris Doty are acclimating to SUNY ESF and are delving into the literature to define their research topics.