David Snyder is an Adjunct Professor at Laurentian University and serves as an emeritus member of the Canada-in-3D activity at the Geological Survey of Canada where he worked as a research scientist (geophysicist) and section head (3D Earth Imaging & Modelling) from 1998 until 2017. Before that he worked ten years at the British Institutions Reflection Profiling Syndicate (BIRPS) at the University of Cambridge, UK. He received a PhD in Geological Sciences from Cornell University in 1988.