As the Vice-President, Operations and Real Estate Partnerships , Professor Scott Mabury has tri-campus oversight of matters pertaining to space, including planning and capital projects, and information technology infrastructure and services. He also oversees facilities, operations, and ancillary services for the St. George campus. As Vice-Provost, Academic Operations, Professor Mabury supports the work of the Vice-President & Provost in his capacity as the University’s Chief Budget Officer.
Professor Mabury has worked to foster closer alignment of University operations with the University’s academic mission, ensuring that all services, not just those with direct connection to academic activity, are consistently driven by the University’s mission of knowledge creation, teaching, and community service.
His research group's current research interests are primarily in the environmental chemistry of fluorinated chemicals. He and his group has written extensively on the environmental fate, disposition and persistence of agrochemicals, industrial chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Mabury and his students have published over 220 scientific papers in refereed journals and has presented his research at conferences, workshops and seminars all over the world.
He was ranked as one of the world’s most highly-cited researchers. He joined the list of 3,000 researchers who earned this distinction in 2014. This ranks him in the top 1% of scientists as evidenced by the number of times his papers and research have been cited.
Professor Mabury spends weekends on his Northumberland Country Farm growing soybeans, wheat, corn, canola and aflalfa.