Michael Delaney
Dr. Michael F. Delaney has been Director of Laboratory Services at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) since 1993 when he was hired to start-up a new 55-person Central Laboratory. MWRA is a large drinking water and wastewater wholesaler serving over 2.5 million Massachusetts customers in 60 cities and towns. Dr. Delaney currently oversees five laboratory locations that perform the majority of the drinking water and waste water laboratory testing for the MWRA. Previously he was the laboratory director for a large commercial environmental testing laboratory where he was also a consultant and project manager on a large Love Canal project for the Environmental Protection Agency. While on the faculty of Boston University and Tufts University he taught graduate and undergraduate chemistry courses and directed an analytical chemistry research group. He has a B.S. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has authored over 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He chairs the ethics committee for the Independent Laboratory Testing Association (ITLA), the Standard Methods Joint Task Groups on Cyanide, Solids, and Control Charts, and is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS). In 2014 he was appointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board (ELAB).
Contact Information: mike.delaney@mwra.com; 617-660-7801
Dr. Michael F. Delaney has been Director of Laboratory Services at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) since 1993 when he was hired to start-up a new 55-person Central Laboratory. MWRA is a large drinking water and wastewater wholesaler serving over 2.5 million Massachusetts customers in 60 cities and towns. Dr. Delaney currently oversees five laboratory locations that perform the majority of the drinking water and waste water laboratory testing for the MWRA. Previously he was the laboratory director for a large commercial environmental testing laboratory where he was also a consultant and project manager on a large Love Canal project for the Environmental Protection Agency. While on the faculty of Boston University and Tufts University he taught graduate and undergraduate chemistry courses and directed an analytical chemistry research group. He has a B.S. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has authored over 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He chairs the ethics committee for the Independent Laboratory Testing Association (ITLA), the Standard Methods Joint Task Groups on Cyanide, Solids, and Control Charts, and is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS). In 2014 he was appointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board (ELAB).
Contact Information: mike.delaney@mwra.com; 617-660-7801
