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Mark N. Mauriello was nominated by Governor Jon S. Corzine to serve as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, succeeding Lisa P. Jackson, who was named Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Mauriello's career with the DEP began in May 1980 when, soon after earning a bachelor's degree in geology from Middlebury College in Vermont, he accepted a position as a project specialist for the New Jersey Geological Survey.
During the 1980s, he rose through the ranks of the Division of Coastal Resources. By the end of the decade, he was supervising a section that administered permits under key coastal protection laws including the Coastal Area Facility Review Act, the Waterfront Development Law, the Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act and the Flood Hazard Area Control Act. Mauriello was appointed Director of the DEP's Land Use Regulation Division in 2002, and in 2006, was selected by then-DEP Commissioner Jackson to serve as the DEP's Assistant Commissioner for Land Use Management. In that capacity, he was responsible for land use regulation, water supply, watershed management, water monitoring and standards, and the New Jersey Geological Survey.
Throughout his 29-year career with the DEP, Mauriello has become closely involved with issues such as natural hazard management and mitigation, global warming and sea-level rise, storm preparedness, floodplain management, coastal processes, stormwater management, natural resource protection, and ecological sustainability. Mauriello has extensive experience in all of the DEP's land use regulatory programs.
Mauriello represents Governor Corzine on the Delaware River Basin Commission, a partnership among New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and the federal government to manage the resources of the Delaware River Basin.
Mauriello has authored or co-authored more than a dozen papers and publications focusing on a wide range of issues affecting New Jersey's famed coastline. He is active in the field of floodplain management, founding the New Jersey Association for Floodplain Management and serving as regional director of the Association of State Floodplain Managers.
He has served on many committees and working groups, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Coastal Elevation and Sea Level Rise Advisory Committee, the DEP's Global Climate Working Group, the New Jersey Hazard Mitigation Team, and the New Jersey Sea Grant's Coastal Processes Advisory Committee.
Born and raised in Jersey City, Mauriello resides in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, with his wife Joanne, and sons Todd and Daniel.
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