Name:                   Joseph Peter Shannon         

Title:                      Research Associate

Grade:                   Service Professional

Department:            Biological Sciences    

Telephone:              Work 520-523-1740, Home 520-527-3116

E-Mail:                  Joseph.Shannon@nau.edu

FAX:                    520-523-7500

Address:                Northern Arizona University

                              PO Box 5640                                     

                              Flagstaff AZ 86011

Marital Status:         Married

Educational Background:

1979  B.S.               Marine Biology, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI

1987                     Secondary Teaching Certificate, Science, Chapman College, Phoenix, AZ           

1993  M.Sc.            Biology from Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

2001  Ph.D.             Biology from Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

Employment:

1978                     Hudson River, NY, Fishery Technician, Thermal Pollution Studies,Lawler Matusky and Skully Engineers, Seasonal Employment.

1979                     Hudson River, NY, Fishery Technician, Thermal Pollution Studies, Texas Instruments; Environmental Division, Seasonal Employment.

1980                     Tongass National Forest, AK, Fishery Technician, Salmon Enhancement Studies, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Seasonal Employment.

1984                     Gulf of Alaska, AK. Fishery Observer, Japanese Trawler catch assessment, U.S.D.C, Seattle, WA.

1982-1986              Instructor, National Outdoor Leadership School, Lander, Wyoming.

1987-1990              Secondary Science Teacher, Scottsdale Unified School District, AZ.

1989                     Master Teacher for  Dr. Stanley Bues; Geology and Biology of the Grand Canyon, Northern Arizona University Geology Department.

1990                     Colorado River in Grand Canyon Beach Erosion Studies, Classified Staff for Dr. Stanley Bues, Northern Arizona University Geology Department.

1991-1993              Research Assistant, for Dr. Dean Blinn; Ecology of Aquatic Diptera in the Colorado River through Grand Canyon, Northern Arizona University Biology Department.

1993-Present          Research Associate Colorado River in Grand Canyon Aquatic Food Base Studies, Northern Arizona University Biology Department.  Co-Principal Investigator 1996 - present.

University Teaching Experience

Professor - General Biology (BIO 100) - Student Evaluations 4.4 out of 5

Guest Lecturer - Ecology (BIO 300), Phycology (BIO 410) Limnology (BIO 571) Stream Ecology (BIO 572), and Environmental Policy (ENV 475)

Scientific Societies

North American Benthological Society - member since 1992

Sigma Xi - full member since 1998

Journal Referee Duties

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Environmental Management

Ecological Applications

Harcourt College Publishers

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Journal of Limnology and Oceanography

Regulated Rivers: Research & Management

Shannon, J.P. 1993.  Aquatic ecology of the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.  MSc. Thesis.  Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ. 68 pp.

Shannon, J.P., D.W. Blinn and L.E. Stevens. 1994.  The role of trophic interactions in structuring lotic benthic communities.  Freshwater Biology 31:213-220.

Blinn, D.W., J.P. Shannon, L.E. Stevens and J.P. Carter. 1995. Consequences of fluctuating discharge for lotic communities.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society 14:233-248.

Shannon, J.P., D.W. Blinn, P.L. Benenati And K.P. Wilson.  1996.  Organic drift in a regulated desert river.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 53:1360-1363. 

Stevens, L.E., J.P. Shannon, and D.W. Blinn. 1997.  Colorado River benthic ecology in Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA: Dam, tributary and geomorphic influences.  Regulated Rivers: Research & Management 13:129-149.

Shaver, M.L. , J.P. Shannon, K.P. Wilson, P.L. Benenati and D.W. Blinn. 1997.  Effects of suspended sediments and desiccation on the benthic tailwater community in the Colorado River, USA.  Hydrobiologia 357:63-72.

Benenati, P.L., J.P. Shannon, and D.W. Blinn.  1998.  Desiccation and recolonization of phytobenthos in a regulated desert river: Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona, USA.  Regulated Rivers: Research and Management 14:519-532.

Stevens, L.E., J.E. Sublette and J.P. Shannon.  1998.  Chironomidae (diptera) of the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. II Factors influencing distribution.  Great Basin Naturalist 58:147-155.

Blinn, D.W., J.P Shannon, P.L. Benenati and K.P. Wilson.  1998.  Algal ecology in tailwater stream communities: the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona.  Journal of Phycology  34:734-740.

Benenati, E.P., J.P. Shannon, D.W. Blinn, K.P. Wilson and S.J. Hueftle.  2000. Reservoir-river linkages: Lake Powell and the Colorado River, Arizona.  North American Benthological Society  19: 742-755.

Blinn, D.W., J.P.Shannon, K.P. Wilson, C. O’Brien, and E. P. Benenati.  1999. Response of benthos and organic drift to a controlled flood.  pp. 259-272. American Geophysical Monograph #110.

Haden, G.A., D.W. Blinn, J.P. Shannon, and K.P.Wilson.  1999.  Driftwood: An alternative habitat for macroinvertebrates in a large Southwestern desert river. Hydrobiologia 397:179-186

Haden, G.A., D.W. Blinn, J.P. Shannon, and K.P. Wilson.  1999.  Interference competition between the net-building caddisfly Ceratopsyche oslari and the amphipod Gammarus lacustris.  Freshwater Ecology 14:227-280

Oberlin, G.E., J.P. Shannon, and D.W. Blinn. 1999.  Watershed influence on themacroinvertebrate fauna of ten major tributaries of the Colorado River through Grand Canyon, Arizona.  Southwestern Naturalist  44:17-30.

Valdez, R.A., J. P. Shannon,  and D. W. Blinn. 1999.  Biological Implications of the 1996 Controlled Flood: To Flood or Not To Flood.  Pages 343-350 American Geophysical Monograph #110.

Wilson, K.P., D. W. Blinn, and J.P. Shannon. 1999. Effects of suspended sediment on biomass and cell morphology of Cladophora glomerata (Chlorophyta) in the Colorado River, Arizona. Journal of Phycology 35:35-41.

Pomeroy, K.E., J.P. Shannon, and D.W. Blinn.  2000. Leaf pack processing in an arid regulated river; Colorado River, Arizona. Hydrobiologia. 434: 193-199

Benenati, E.P., J.P. Shannon, J.S. Hagan, and D.W. Blinn.  2001. Drifting fine particulate organic matter below Glen Canyon Dam in the Colorado River, Arizona Freshwater Ecology. (In Press)

Shannon, J.P., D. W. Blinn,T. Mckinney, E.P. Benenati, K. P. Wilson, and Chris O’Brien.  2001. Aquatic food base response to the 1996 test flood below Glen Canyon Dam; Colorado River, Arizona.  Ecological Applications. (In press)

Shannon, J.P., D.W. Blinn, G.A. Haden, E.P. Benenati, and K.P. Wilson.  Food web implications of  ¹³C and ¹⁵N variability over 400 km of the regulated Colorado River, USA. 2001. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies. Proceedings from the 2nd International Conference on Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies. (In press)

Technical Reports

Blinn, D.W., L.E. Stevens, and J.P. Shannon. 1992.  The effects of Glen Canyon Dam on the aquatic food base in the Colorado River corridor in Grand Canyon, Arizona. Glen Canyon Environmental Studies Draft Annual Report, Flagstaff, AZ.

Blinn, D.W., L.E. Stevens, and J.P. Shannon.  1993.  Interim flow effects from      Glen Canyon Dam on the aquatic food base in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: 1993 Annual Report.  Glen Canyon Environmental Studies Draft Annual Report, Flagstaff, AZ.

Blinn, D.W., L.E. Stevens, and J.P. Shannon. 1994.  Interim flow effects from Glen Canyon Dam on the aquatic food base in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.  Glen Canyon Environmental Studies Annual Report, Flagstaff, AZ.

Blinn D.W., J.P. Shannon, K.P. Wilson, and L.E. Stevens. 1995.  Interim flow effects from Glen Canyon Dam on the aquatic food base in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Glen Canyon Environmental Studies Annual Report, Flagstaff, AZ.

Shannon, J.P., D.W. Blinn, K.P. Wilson, P.L. Benenati, and G.E. Oberlin. 1996. Interim flow and beach building spike flow effects from Glen Canyon Dam on the aquatic food base in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Glen Canyon Environmental Studies Office Annual Report.  Flagstaff, AZ.

Shannon, J.P., D.W. Blinn, P.L. Benenati, C.J. O'Brien, J.S. Hagan and K.P. Wilson. 1997.  Monitoring the aquatic food base under modified fluctuating flows in the Colorado river through Grand Canyon.  Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center Final Report, Flagstaff, AZ.

Haden, G.A., D.W. Blinn, J.P. Shannon, C.J. O'Brien, and K.P. Wilson.  1997.  Benthic Ecology of the Colorado River     system through the Colorado Plateau region of the southwestern United States. United States Bureau of Reclamation Final Report, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Shannon, J.P., D.W. Blinn, K.P. Wilson, P.L. Benenati, and C. O’Brien.  1998.  1997-1998 response of the aquatic food base to elevated discharges and three-day low flows in the colorado river below Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona. Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center Final report, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Shannon, J.P., D.W. Blinn, K.P. Wilson, P.L. Benenati, G.A. Haden, and Kim E. Pomeroy.  1998.  Monitoring the aquatic food base in the Colorado River, Arizona during fiscal years 1998 and 1999.  Annual report submitted to Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Shannon, J.P., D.W. Blinn, K.P. Wilson, E.P. Benenati, G. A. Haden, and Kim E. Pomeroy.  1999.  Monitoring the aquatic food base in the Colorado River, Arizona during 1999.  Annual report submitted to Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Abstracts From Professional Meetings  (past five years, out of 35)

Shannon, J.P., R.F. Davidson, J.L. Hamilton, K.P. Wilson, and D.W. Blinn.  1996.  Do algal chemical cues override predation in producing patchy benthic communities in three trophic level interactions?  44th Annual meeting of the North American Benthological Society.  Kalispell, Montana. Benthological Society.  Kalispell, MT.

Wilson, K.P., J.P. Shannon, and D.W. Blinn. 1996.  Effects of suspended sediments on Cladophora glomerata cell dimensions in the Colorado River through Grand Canyon.  44th Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society.  Kalispell, MT.

Yard, M.D., G.E. Bennett, D.W. Blinn, J.P. Shannon, and L.E. Stevens. 1996.  A mechanistic approach used to model gross primary production in the Colorado River.  44th Annual Meeting of the North American. Kalispell, Montana.

Benenati, P.L., J. P. Shannon, K. P. Wilson and D. W. Blinn.  May 1997.  Temporal changes of phytobenthos in the tailwaters of Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River, Arizona.  45th Annual meeting of the North American Benthological Society, San Marcos, TX.

Haden, G.A., D.W. Blinn, J.P. Shannon, and K.P.Wilson. May 1997.  An overlooked habitat: The importance of floating woody debris as a substrate for macroinvertebrates in a turbid, southwestern river. 45th Annual meeting of the North American Benthological Society, San Marcos, TX.

Shannon, J.P., D.W. Blinn, K. P. Wilson, P.L. Benenati, C. O’Brien, and J. Hagan. August 1997.  Organic drift patterns during the spring 1996 spike flow in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam.  Annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society.  Monterey CA.

Shannon, J. P.,  D. W. Blinn, K.P. Wilson, P.L. Benenati, J. Hagan and C. J. O’Brien. 1997.  Impacts of the Spring 1996 spike flow from Glen Canyon Dam on the aquatic food base in the Colorado River through Grand Canyon, Arizona.Glen Canyon Dam beach/habitat building flow symposium, Flagstaff, AZ.

Shannon, J.P. in cooperation with AGF, BOR, and USGS. 1997.  Synthesis: Impacts of the Spring 1996 spike flow from Glen Canyon Dam on the aquatic food base in the Colorado River through Grand Canyon, Arizona. Glen Canyon Dam beach/habitat building flow Symposium, Flagstaff, AZ.

Benenati, P.L., S.J. Hueftle, D.W. Blinn and J.P Shannon. 1998.  Benthic tailwaters-Reservoir linkages as affected by climatic patterns in the lower Colorado River, Arizona.  Annual meeting of the North American Benthological Society, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Special Session.

Shannon, J.P., D.W. Blinn, G.A. Haden, and G.E. Oberlin. 1998. Testing the thermal equilibrium hypothesis within the Colorado River basin. Annual meeting of the North American Benthological Society, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Special Session.

Shannon, J.P., D. W. Blinn, P. L. Benenati, and K. P. Wilson. 1998. Use of stable isotopes to determine origin of drifting organic matter in the Colorado River during the 1996 Spike Flow from Glen Canyon Dam through Grand Canyon      National Park.  First International Conference on the Applications of Stable Isotopes Techniques to Ecological Studies.  Saskatoon, Canada

Shannon, J.P.,  D.W. Blinn, E.P. Benenati, G.A. Haden, and K. P. Wilson.  1999.Recent mainstem aquatic food base dynamics.  Grand Canyon Adaptive Management Program-Biennial Science Symposium. Grand Canyon Village, Arizona.

Shannon, J.P.,  D. W. Blinn, E.P. Benenati, G.A. Haden, and K. P. Wilson.  1999.  Aquatic ecology and temperature in the Colorado River drainage.  Grand Canyon River Guides Association- Spring Training Seminar. Marble Canyon, Arizona.

Shannon, J. P., D. W. Blinn, G.A. Haden, and E. P. Benenati.  1999.  Carbon mass estimates as an indicator of aquatic community health in the Colorado River basin. Fifth biennial conference of research on the Colorado Plateau.  Invited symposia speaker; Past, present and future impacts of anthropogenic and natural environmental change on ecosystems of the Colorado Plateau.  Flagstaff, Arizona.

Shannon, J.P.,  D.W. Blinn, P. L. Benenati, G.A. Haden, and K.P. Wilson. 2000.Aquatic ecology in the Colorado River drainage.  Grand Canyon River Guides Association- Spring Training Seminar. Marble Canyon, Arizona.

Shannon, J.P., Wilson K.P., G. A.Haden, E. P. Benenati, and D. W. Blinn. 2000. Aquatic food web construction  of the Colorado River through Grand Canyon using dual stable isotopes (¹³C and ¹⁵N).  Second International Conference on the Applications of Stable Isotopes Techniques to Ecological Studies. Braunschweig, Germany.

Shannon, J.P., G.A. Haden, E.P. Benenati, K.P. Wilson and D.W. Blinn, 2000. Scale of hydraulic variability and benthic community structure; Colorado River through Grand Canyon, Arizona. 47th Annual meeting of the North American Benthological Society.  Keystone, Colorado.

Haden, G.A., J. P. Shannon, K. P. Wilson, and D. W. Blinn. 2000. Benthic community composition and standing mass in the Colorado River above and below Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona, USA. 47th Annual meeting of the North American Benthological Society.  Keystone, Colorado.

Shannon, J.P.,  D.W. Blinn, P. L. Benenati, K. Straka, and G.A. Haden.  2001.Effects of the summer of 2000 experimental flows on the food base in Grand Canyon.  Grand Canyon River Guides Association- Spring Training Seminar. Marble Canyon, Arizona.

Shannon, J.P.,  D.W. Blinn, P. L. Benenati, K. Straka, and G.A. Haden.  2001.  Aquatic food base response to the 2000 experimental flows in Glen and Grand Canyon National Parks.  Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center biennial symposium. Flagstaff, Arizona

Haden, G.A., D.W.Blinn, J.P.Shannon, and O.T.Gorman. 2001. Food resource limitations of the Humpback Chub(Gila cypha) an endangered cyprinid fish in the Little Colorado River, Arizona, USA.  48th Annual meeting of the North American Benthological Society. La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Publications In Progress

Shannon, J.P., D.W. Blinn, E.P. Benenati, and K.P Wilson.  2001. Essentials of Aquatic Ecology in the Colorado River.  General public manual - non-profit   memorial to Lorraine Putnam, proceeds will go to a research fund in Navajo National Monument.  In review with publisher.

Shannon, J.P., D.W. Blinn, and R. Davidson. Algal chemical cues and three trophic level interactions. 2001. Freshwater Biology.  (In Preparation).

Proposals in progress:

Reintroduction of the river otter (Lutra canadensis) into the Colorado River through Grand Canyon. In cooperation with The Ark Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, The River Otter Alliance, Ocean Journeys Museum and regional agencies.

         Due July 1, 2001.  Matching private funds to the National Wildlife Foundation ~ $50,0000 December 2001 to December 2002.

Continuing the Long-Term Monitoring of the Aquatic Food Base in the Colorado River through Grand Canyon.  In cooperation with Arizona Game and Fish and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Grand Canyon Adaptive Management Program.

         Due September 2001 Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, USGS       BRD/BOR ~ $280,000 / year renewable for 5 years January 1 2002

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