Mike Dealy is a graduate of Wichita State and Fort Hays State universities. He is a professional geologist licensed to practice in Kansas. Mike began his career in groundwater management in 1979 as staff hydrologist for the Southwest Kansas Groundwater Management District No. 3 in Garden City. From 1984 to 2006, he served as Manager of the Equus Beds Groundwater Management District No. 2 in Halstead. Mike was the Manager of the Wichita Well Sample Library of the Kansas Geological Survey from 2006 to 2021.

Roger McCoy is a native Kansan who grew up on a farm near Spivey, Kansas, in Kingman County. He graduated from Attica High School in the mid-1950s and took his first job in the oil industry, driving a tank truck during the summer before he started at the Municipal University of Wichita, later renamed Wichita State University. Roger graduated with a bachelor’s degree in geology in 1959. McCoy’s entire professional career has been in the oil industry.