Theodore Kennedy, Ph.D.
I use food webs to describe ecosystem response to river regulation and biological invasions. I have been with USGS since 2004, providing science in support of the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program.
Professional Experience:
11/04 - present. Research Ecologist, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Southwest Biological Science Center, US Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ
1/04 - 11/04. Postdoctoral researcher, Arizona State University
1/03 - 1/04. Postdoctoral researcher, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Southwest Biological Science Center, US Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ.
Education:
9/96 - 12/02. Ph.D. in Ecology, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota. Dissertation title: The causes and consequences of plant invasions
1/90 - 12/94. B.S. in Ecology, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, cum laude.
Science and Products
Flow management for hydropower extirpates aquatic insects, undermining river food websData
Flow management and fish density regulate salmonid recruitment and adult size in tailwaters across western North AmericaData
Hydropeaking intensity and dam proximity limit aquatic invertebrate diversity in the Colorado River Basin
Water storage decisions will determine the distribution and persistence of imperiled river fishes
Net-spinning caddisfly distribution in large regulated rivers
Changes in prey, turbidity, and competition reduce somatic growth and cause the collapse of a fish population
Macroinvertebrate oviposition habitat selectivity and egg-mass desiccation tolerances: Implications for population dynamics in large regulated rivers
Food web controls on mercury fluxes and fate in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon
Spatial population structure of a widespread aquatic insect in the Colorado River Basin: Evidence for a Hydropsyche oslari species complex
Bug flows: Don’t count your midges until they hatch
Warm water temperatures and shifts in seasonality increase trout recruitment but only moderately decrease adult size in western North American tailwaters
Brown trout in the Lees Ferry reach of the Colorado River—Evaluation of causal hypotheses and potential interventions
Pulsed flows, tributary inputs, and food web structure in a highly regulated river
Meeting the challenge of interacting threats in freshwater ecosystems: A call to scientists and managers
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
Flow management for hydropower extirpates aquatic insects, undermining river food websData
Flow management and fish density regulate salmonid recruitment and adult size in tailwaters across western North AmericaData
Hydropeaking intensity and dam proximity limit aquatic invertebrate diversity in the Colorado River Basin
Water storage decisions will determine the distribution and persistence of imperiled river fishes
Net-spinning caddisfly distribution in large regulated rivers
Changes in prey, turbidity, and competition reduce somatic growth and cause the collapse of a fish population
Macroinvertebrate oviposition habitat selectivity and egg-mass desiccation tolerances: Implications for population dynamics in large regulated rivers
Food web controls on mercury fluxes and fate in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon
Spatial population structure of a widespread aquatic insect in the Colorado River Basin: Evidence for a Hydropsyche oslari species complex
Bug flows: Don’t count your midges until they hatch
Warm water temperatures and shifts in seasonality increase trout recruitment but only moderately decrease adult size in western North American tailwaters
Brown trout in the Lees Ferry reach of the Colorado River—Evaluation of causal hypotheses and potential interventions
Pulsed flows, tributary inputs, and food web structure in a highly regulated river
Meeting the challenge of interacting threats in freshwater ecosystems: A call to scientists and managers
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.