EV graduate student, Mary Clare Snaer, successfully defends her thesis

Ms. Mary Clare Snaer, a graduate student in the Environmental Science (EV) program at the University of Guam, successfully defended her thesis at WERI on April 30, 2026. 

Her thesis focuses on the hydrologic analysis of deep observation wells in the Northern Guam Lens Aquifer, where she evaluated the impacts of hydrologic events on Guam’s freshwater source. 

In her research, she found that the freshwater response to rainfall and drought varied throughout different sites within the aquifer. Her analysis will soon be published as a WERI Technical Report and will be available through the Guam Hydrologic Survey reports library.