Brian Kennedy
Assistant Professor
Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources

•  Fish Ecology
•  Bioenergetics and Community Ecology of Streams
•  Ecosystem Controls on Aquatic Processes
•  Bigeochemical Tracers in Aquatic Systems

•   Fish 102  The Fishery Resources Profession
•   Fish 314  Fish Ecology
•   Fish 315  Fish Ecology Lab
•   Fish 504  Grant Proposal Writing

• Bioenergetics and movements of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and its relationship to stream restoration in the Northeastern U.S.
• Aquatic insect dispersal and calcium cycling in Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire
• Biogeochemistry of the Colorado River and the population dynamics of one of its native endangered fish, the humpback chub (Gila cypha)
• Meta-analysis of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) juvenile performance, dispersal, and mesohabitat availability across its Northern Atlantic distribution
• The ecological and biogeochemical impacts of the Muskegon River on Lake Michigan
• Trophic controls of population dynamics in a pond mesocosm
• Impacts of hydrologic disturbance on stream communities
• Role of anadromous Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) populations on the nutrient budgets of streams in Scotland

Kennedy, B.P., Nislow, K.H., C.L. Folt. In preparation for Ecology (manuscript available). Establishing the links between consumption, growth and survival for juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).

Kennedy, B.P., Chamberlain, C.P., Blum, J.D., Nislow, K.H. and Folt, C.L.  2005. Comparing naturally occurring stable isotopes of nitrogen, carbon, and strontium as markers for Atlantic salmon juvenile rearing locations. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences – in press.

Kennedy, B.P., Klaue, B., Blum, J.D., and Folt, C.L.  2004. Integrative measures of consumption rates in fish: expansion and application of a trace element approach. Journal of Applied Ecology 41:1009-1020.

Fuller, R.L., Kennedy, B.P., and Nielsen, C.  2004.  Macroinvertebrate responses to algal and bacterial manipulations in streams. Hydrobiologia 523:113-126.

Kennedy, B.P., Klaue, A, Blum, J.D., Folt, C.L. and Nislow, K.  2002. Reconstructing the lives of salmon using Sr isotopes in otoliths. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 59: 925-929.

Nislow, K.H., Magilligan, F.J., Folt, C.L, and Kennedy, B.P.  2002.  Within-basin variation in the short term effects of a major flood on stream fishes and invertebrates. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 17:305-318.

Kennedy, B.P., Blum, J.D., Folt, C.L. and Nislow, K.  2000. Using natural strontium isotopic signatures as fish markers: methodology and application. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 57:2280-2292.

Kennedy, B.P.  2000. Understanding Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) performance, survival and dispersal through the use of environmental tracers. Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. Ph.D. Dissertation.

Mack, A.L., Ickes, K., Jessen, J.H., Kennedy, B.P., and Sinclair, J.R.  1999. Ecology of Aglai mackiana (Meliaceae) seedlings in a New Guinea rain forest. Biotropica 31:111-120.

Harrington, R., Kennedy, B.P., Chamberlain, C.P., Blum, J.D., and Folt, C.L.  1998.  N15 enrichment in agricultural catchments: field patterns and applications to tracking Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).  Chemical Geology 147:281-294.

Kennedy, B.P., Folt, C.L., Blum, J.D., and Chamberlain, C.P.  1997. Natural isotope markers in salmon.  Nature 387:766-767.

Hedin, L.O., von Fischer, J.C., Ostrom, N.E., Kennedy, B.P., Brown, M.G., and Robertson, G.P. 1997. Thermodynamic constraints on nitrogen transformations and other biogeochemical processes at soil-stream interfaces.  Ecology 79:684-703.

Invited Talks

January 2002. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Reconstructing the lives of salmon through the use of Sr stable Isotopes. B.P. Kennedy, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan.

June 2001.  North American Benthological Society Annual Meeting. Lacrosse, WI.
Using natural strontium signatures to track the movements and migrations of salmon. B.P. Kennedy, A. Klaue, J.D. Blum & C.L. Folt.

April 2001. Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, NOAA. Ann Arbor, MI.
Linking Atlantic salmon habitat, foraging, and survival through the use of environmental tracers. B.P. Kennedy, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan.

January 2001. Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Linking Atlantic salmon habitat, foraging, and survival through the use of environmental tracers. B.P. Kennedy, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan.

February 1999.  Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission - Tech Meeting.  Hadley, MA.
Effects of extreme floods on habitat and biotic communities in Atlantic salmon rearing streams. K.H. Nislow, F.J. Magilligan, B.P. Kennedy & C.L. Folt.

July 1998.  American Fisheries Society Early Life History Section.  Ann Arbor, MI.
Tracing the tributary origins and movements of anadromous Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) through the use of stable isotopes. B.P. Kennedy, R. Harrington, C.L. Folt, J.D. Blum & C.P. Chamberlain.