David R. Wunsch, Ph.D., PG, is the director and state geologist of the Delaware Geological Survey. Previously, he served as the director of science and technology at NGWA, was the state geologist of New Hampshire, and had statutory appointments to the New Hampshire Joint Board of Geology and Water Well Board. His scientific interests and areas of expertise are groundwater monitoring and exploration, aqueous geochemistry, mine hydrology, and engineering geology.
Wunsch has served on the NGWA Scientists and Engineers Section Board of Directors, was president of the Association of American State Geologists, and is currently past-president of the American Geoscience Institute. He has also served on federal advisory committees, study committees of the National Academy of Science, and has testified before Congress regarding national water and energy issues. He has represented AASG on the Federal Advisory Committee on Water Information and was a founding member of its Subcommittee on Ground Water, which developed a framework for monitoring the nation’s groundwater resources. By merit of his current position, Wunsch represents the state of Delaware on the Delaware River Master Advisory Committee, whose members negotiate out-of-basin transfers and water management within the Delaware River Basin.
A Fellow of the Geological Society of America, Wunsch was also presented the Outstanding Kentucky Geologist Award by the Kentucky Chapter of the American Institute of Professional Geologists in 1999 and, in 2014, was the recipient of the American Geosciences Institute’s Outstanding Contribution to the Understanding of Geoscience award.
Wunsch received his B.A. in geology, with a minor in chemistry, from SUNY Oneonta, an M.S. in geology from the University of Akron, and a Ph.D. in geology with an emphasis in hydrogeology from the University of Kentucky.