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Mary Michael Forrester O'Neill

(Post-Doctoral Associate)

Mary Michael Forrester O'Neill's Contact Card & Information.
Email: mary.m.oneill@nasa.gov
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NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 617
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: UNIV OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK

Positions/Employment


Assitant Research Scientist

University of Maryland ESSIC, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Hydrological Sciences Laboratory - Greenbelt, Maryland

October 2025 - Present


Post-doctoral Associate

University of Maryland ESSIC, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Hydrological Sciences Laboratory - Greenbelt, MD

October 2020 - October 2025


Staff Scientist

Daniel B. Stephens & Associates - Lakewood, CO

October 2018 - August 2020


Research Assistant

Colorado School of Mines - Golden, CO

August 2014 - August 2020


Student Lecturer

Colorado School of Mines - Golden, CO

January 2020 - May 2020


Higher Education Research Experience (HERE) Intern

Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Oak Ridge, TN

January 2017 - April 2017

Teaching Experience


Geological Fluid Mechanics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, Spring 2020

Instructor, English, BTI Bishop Tharp Institute, Les Cayes, Haiti, Fall 2012

Education


Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Hydrology, 8/2020, Dissertation: “The Groundwater-Atmosphere Connection: Case Studies in Integrated, Coupled and Large-Scale Hydrologic Modeling”
  • Master of Science, Hydrology, 12/2016, Thesis: “Ecohydrologic Response and Atmospheric Feedbacks from Beetle-Induced Transpiration Losses in the Colorado Headwaters”

Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, TN

  • Bachelor of Science, Natural Resources: Environmental Studies, Mathematics, 5/2012

Other Professional Information


ORCID: 0000-0002-2145-5165

Selected Publications


Refereed

2024. "An Abrupt Decline in Global Terrestrial Water Storage and Its Relationship with Sea Level Change.", Surveys in Geophysics, 45 (6): 1875-1902 [10.1007/s10712-024-09860-w] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "A hydrological simulation dataset of the Upper Colorado River Basin from 1983 to 2019.", Scientific Data, 9 (1): 16 [10.1038/s41597-022-01123-w] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Assessment of the ParFlow–CLM CONUS 1.0 integrated hydrologic model: evaluation of hyper-resolution water balance components across the contiguous United States.", Geoscientific Model Development, 14 (12): 7223-7254 [10.5194/gmd-14-7223-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Continental Hydrologic Intercomparison Project, Phase 1: A Large‐Scale Hydrologic Model Comparison Over the Continental United States.", Water Resources Research, 57 (7): [10.1029/2020wr028931] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Impact of Lateral Groundwater Flow and Subsurface Lower Boundary Conditions on Atmospheric Boundary Layer Development over Complex Terrain.", Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21 (6): 1133-1160 [10.1175/jhm-d-19-0029.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "LIVVkit 2.1: automated and extensible ice sheet model validation.", Geoscientific Model Development, 12 (3): 1067-1086 [10.5194/gmd-12-1067-2019] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Forest Disturbance Feedbacks From Bedrock to Atmosphere Using Coupled Hydrometeorological Simulations Over the Rocky Mountain Headwaters.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123 (17): 9026-9046 [10.1029/2018jd028380] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "The imprint of climate and geology on the residence times of groundwater.", Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (2): 701-708 [10.1002/2015gl066916] [Journal Article/Letter]