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Thomas Allen Thomas G. Allen
Assistant Scientist, Resource Economics 
and Policy
University of Maine
203 Winslow Hall 
phone: (207) 581-3164 
fax: (207) 581-4278 
email: Thomas_Allen@umit.maine.edu
web site: http://www.ume.maine.edu/%7Erep/facstaff/allen.htm

Fields of Interest:

  • Rural Economic Development

Collaborating Research: 

Regional Cooperation in the Greater Bangor Region: Education, Housing, and Capital Planning

An Overview of the Demographic and Economic Conditions in Maine: A background for workforce and tax policy considerations

Kathleen P. Bell Kathleen P. Bell
Assistant Professor, Resource Economics and Policy 
University of Maine
200 Winslow Hall 
phone: (207) 581-3156 
fax: (207) 581-4278 ?
email: kathleen.p.bell@umit.maine.edu
web site: http://www.ume.maine.edu/%7Erep/facstaff/bell.html

Fields of Interest:

  • Primary: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics 
  • Secondary: Public Economics, Econometrics

Collaborating Research: 

Regional Cooperation in the Greater Bangor Region: Education, Housing, and Capital Planning

Gregory Gallant

Gregory Gallant

Director, Margaret Chase Smith Library 
56 Norridgewock Avenue
Skowhegan, Maine 04976
phone: (207) 474-7133
fax: (207) 474-8878
email: gpg@somtel.com

Fields of Interest:

  • Documenting Congress
  • Civic Engagement

Collaborating Research: 

Code of Election Ethics
Maine Policy Review
Paul Leiby Paul Leiby
Energy Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P.O. Box 2008
M.S. 6205
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6205 
phone: (865) 974-6084 
fax: (865) 974-3100 
email: leibypn@ornl.gov

Collaborating Research: 

The Alternate Fuel Transition: Results from the TAFV Model of Alternate Fuel Use in Light-Duty Vehicles 1996-2000
Matthew Murray Matthew N. Murray
Professor of Economics 
Graduate Director, Department of Economics 
Associate Director, CBER 
The University of Tennessee 
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4170 
phone: (865) 974-6084 
fax: (865) 974-3100 
email: mmurray1@utk.edu
web site: http://econ.bus.utk.edu/murray/Murray.html

Fields of Interest:

  • state and local tax policy
  • sales tax
  • economic development incentive
  • tax completion

Collaborating Research: 

Margaret Chase Smith Lectureship Series, "Analyzing State Tax Systems"
October 13, 2000

Tax Policy and Economic Development in Maine: A Survey of the Issues

Robert K. Roper Robert K. Roper
Associate Professor of Business Management 
College of Mathematics & Professional Studies 
University College of Bangor
University of Maine at Augusta
85 Texas Avenue
Bangor, ME 04401 
phone: (207) 262-7862 
email: ibn400@maine.edu

Fields of Interest:

  • Research interests include Maine state and county economic change, multimedia development
  • Teaching areas include economics, statistics, database/spreadsheet  application design, small business management 

Collaborating Research: 

Demographic and Economic Characteristics of Washington County, Maine: 1970 - 1996, January, 1999

The Economy of Maine: 1969 - 1996: A Multimedia Program

John Peckenham John Peckenham
Assistant Director
Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research
The U.S.G.S. Water Resources Research Institute for Maine
University of Maine
102 Norman Smith Hall
University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 
phone: (207) 581-3254 
fax: (207) 581-2725
Email: jpeck@maine.edu

Fields of Interest:

  • Groundwater contamination and remediation 
  • Drinking water treatment 
  • Groundwater chemistry 
  • Groundwater and surface water interactions 
  • Data validation

Collaborating Research: 

MtBE in Groundwater: The Maine Experiment

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