Dave Ramsey is the deputy director for budget and metrics for the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP), co-funded by USGS and the U.S. Agency for International Development's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/BHA). He oversees monitoring and evaluation of VDAP activities and helps lead planning of future initiatives to assist foreign counterparts with preparing for and responding to volcanic crises. He also serves as a geological hazards advisor for BHA, providing guidance and technical assistance on program development and disaster risk reduction activities related to geological hazards.
Ramsey is a co-leader of the USGS Risk Community of Practice, which focuses on risk research and applications from across the USGS to directly support decision makers in their efforts to better understand societal risk from hazards and to have the necessary information to make science-based, risk reduction decisions. He develops hazards and threat assessments for U.S. volcanoes. He earned a master's degree in geology from Bowling Green State University and a bachelor's degree in geology from Mount Union College.