The Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific (WERI) at the University of Guam proudly announces the successful thesis proposal defense of Ms. Nicole Celine Sulla Mathews. Mathews is a candidate for the Master of Science in Environmental Science. Her proposal defense took place on November 6, 2026, at the WERI Conference Room and virtually via Zoom.Her thesis is titled "Spatiotemporal Analysis of Land Cover Change and Groundwater Health in the Finegayan Basin, Guam (2000-Present) Using Seasonally Calibrated Remote Sensing". Mathews’s research is partially funded by the U.S. Geological Survey…