As the geospatial and information technology resource manager, Amy Grones Snelgrove provides leadership for the institutes’ technology team, including geospatial support of projects, software and web development, web-based mapping applications and database development. She is also an ESRI certified instructor and has her GISP and CTT+ certifications.  Snelgrove works with the institutes’ technology team to support research and educational outreach programs focused on water and natural resources science and management issues throughout the country. 

Before joining Texas A&M Institute of Renewable Natural Resources in 2006, Snelgrove was a GIS specialist for the Land Information Systems Lab in Texas A&M University’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, providing GIS support for Wildlife Extension.

She has a bachelor of science in forestry and a master of science in forestry (GIS), both from Texas A&M.