William (Coty) Keller

Updated October 16, 2024

Email: wckeller@earthlink.net

Homepage: http://www.ecopapak.org/

Professional Experience		Education
Writing	Volunteer Work

Professional Experience

Ecologist, working to conserve and restore the natural relationships among living things and the environment.

College Professor

· Naval War College - Professor of National Security Affairs

· Webb Institute - Instructor and director of graduate program in Ocean Technology and Commerce

· Saint Joseph's College - Associate professor of Management

Director of Manufacturing, Pearson Yachts, Inc.

• Managed the Production Department
• Planned and installed the facility for a new product line (Sunfish)

Naval Officer

• Commanding Office of the frigate Harold E. Holt (FF - 1074) and research vessel Alacrity (AG - 520). Served as Executive Officer in the destroyer O'Bannon (DD - 987), Weapons Officer in the guided missile cruiser Josephus. Daniels (CG - 27), and Chief Engineer/Executive Office aboard the Gunboat Ready (PG - 87) in Vietnam. Also served as chief engineer on the minesweeper Avenge (MSO 423).
• Shore Assignments were Enlisted Programs Officer for the New England Recruiting District and Professor of Management & National Security Affairs at the Naval War College.

Education

Florida Master Naturalist certification. University of Florida

Ph.D., Walden University Minneapolis, Minnesota (Management, with specialization in Decision Science. Decision science is an integration of several fields (psychology, economics, finance, organizational behavior, statistics, and management science) for the purpose of making sound decisions and solving complex problems.)

M. S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California (Management, with specialization in Finance).

B. A. Colgate University, Hamilton, New York (Psychology).

Recent Writing

Florida’s climate disasters: We get what we vote for. 2024

Managing Nutrients to Save Charlotte County’s Estuaries and Economy. 2023. Co-authored with Andy Mele and Judy Ott.

If we want to reduce heat-trapping gases, we need to distinguish between beneficial and harmful ‘renewable energy’ 2022

Ideas for Enhancing Charlotte County’s Management of Our Exceptional Estuaries, Waterways and Water Quality-Now. 2019. Co-authored with Dave Blewett and Judy Ott.

Urgency and Action: Drawdown to reverse climate change. 2018. Co-authored with John Darovec. Created for Florida Veterans for Common Sense.

40,000 Pound Carbon Diet: How a middle class American family reduced their carbon footprint by 75% (and made money doing it) Published in the May/June 2013 Editions of Current EVents, the magazine of the Electric Auto Association

Recent Volunteer Work

· Project Manager, St. James of Jerusalem Episcopal Church, Long Beach, NY. The goal of the project is to eliminate the emission of greenhouse gases.

· Teaching about the Climate Crisis with the Greater Long Beach Interfaith Association. The program is titled This Fragile Earth, our Island Home and is closely related to Creation Care throughout Long Island, NY.

· Promoting action on climate change with Florida Veterans for Common Sense

· Restoring and preserving estuary water quality in and around Charlotte Harbor

· Eradicating invasive species from the mangroves in the Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park

· Abolishing Corporate Personhood by volunteer work with the Move To Amend coalition

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