Mark DeCaprio

Mark and his wife are lifelong Connecticut residents. Mark enlisted in the US Navy Submarine Service and served on a nuclear submarine in New London, CT. After completing his US Navy four year active duty service, he attended Eastern Connecticut State University and earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology/minor in chemistry and later attained a Masters in Public Health (MPH) from University of Connecticut. Mark started his state service working in the Department of Public Health Laboratory Division as a microbiologist. He transferred to a emergency response coordinator position, working and retiring from the State Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP), where he was promoted through the ranks and worked the last 20 years as a division director in in the emergency oil & chemical spill response and spill prevention program. In addition to his division director duties, Mark served as CT DEEP’s agency liaison with the CT Department/Division of Homeland Security, Connecticut’s representative for the New England Regional Response Team (RRT1), and administrator of the State Emergency Response Commission.