David Wunsch, state geologist and director of the Delaware Geological Survey, has been named the new president–elect of the American Geoscience Institute (AGI). AGI is an umbrella organization of geoscience societies that has more than 250,000 members worldwide. Wunsch has had a long association with AGI, being named its first Congressional Science Fellow in 1998-99 and also having served as secretary of its Executive Committee in 2002-04.