Currently Dr. Bundy is the Assistant Secretary for Chesapeake Bay Programs with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. As Assistant Secretary, Mark oversees several Units that help to coordinate the implementation of the regional Chesapeake Bay restoration program, including Watershed Services and the Critical Area Commission. Mark has been a national speaker and a State representative on numerous committees related to the Bay Program, environmentally responsible land use practices and resource economics. In 1997, Dr. Bundy developed a statewide "Green Building Program" designed to facilitate change in construction, site development and local government planning. The Program received national acclaim in 2001 with the signing of an Executive Order requiring all new state facilities be built to Green Building standards.

Mark has been with the Department for 28 years where he has held such positions as Director of the Education, Bay Policy and Growth Management Unit, Administrator for Economic Studies with the Department's Power Plant Research Program and Special Assistant for Chesapeake Bay Programs with the Office of the Secretary.

Dr. Bundy received his doctorate from the Marine, Estuarine, and Environmental Sciences program at the University of Maryland, College Park where his area of study was resource economics. Additionally, Mark was an invited member of a United States delegation of estuarine scientists to the People's Republic of China for a three-week professional exchange program.

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