2025 Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit

Gerald is Director of the University of Delaware Water Resources Center (UDWRC) one of the 54 Congressionally-designated National Institutes for Water Resources (NIWR) supported by the U.S. Department of Interior and U.S. Geological Survey at land grant universities in the 50 states, District of Columbia, and island territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands. The UDWRC is a research unit of the Institute for Public Administration within the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy & Administration. Dr. Kauffman holds faculty appointments and teaches courses in water science and policy in the Biden School, Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Dept. of Geography and has studied at the two oldest land grant institutions with colonial roots in the nation, Delaware (est. 1743) and Rutgers (est. 1766). Jerry is proud to be one of a million citizens of the First State and when not playing soccer serves as President of the Fairfield Watershed Association at home in Newark, Delaware in the White Clay Creek National Wild & Scenic River watershed.