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Michelle Sneed

U.S Geological Survey
Profile: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/michelle-sneed

Biography

Michelle Sneed is a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. She spent 25 years leading land subsidence research in the California Water Science Center and now serves as the Technical Support Coordinator for Groundwater Science in the Office of Quality Assurance. She received her BS and MS degrees in geology from California State University, Sacramento, where she subsequently taught geology classes for 10 years. She has published many studies of land subsidence related to fluid-pressure changes in areas throughout California and other areas in the Western U.S., which often had a focus on subsidence impacts on water-conveyance infrastructure. She is a member of the UNESCO Land Subsidence International Initiative, the recognized leader in promoting global land subsidence studies.

Selected Relevant Publications

  1. Herrera-Garcia, G., Ezquerro, P. Tomás, R., Béjar-Pizarro, M., López-Vinielles, J. Rossi, M., Mateos, R.M., Carreón-Freyre, D., Lambert, J., Teatini, P., Cabral-Cano, E., Erkens, G., Galloway, D., Hung, W., Kakar, N., Sneed M., Tosi, L., Wang, H., Ye, S., Mapping the global threat of land subsidence: Science, v. 371, no. 6524, p. 34-36, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb8549, 2021. 
  2. Neely, W.R., Borsa, A.A., Burney, J.A., Levy, M.C., Silverii, F., and Sneed, M., Characterization of groundwater recharge and flow in California’s San Joaquin Valley from InSAR-observed surface deformation: Water Resources Research, 57, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028451, 2021. 
  3. Hung, Wei-Chia, Hwang, Cheinway, Sneed, Michelle, Chen, Yi-An, Chu, Chi-Hua, and Shao-Hung Lin, Measuring and interpreting multilayer aquifer-system compactions for a sustainable groundwater-system development, Water Resources Research, 57, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028194, 2021.