Research

My research interests include both development of statistical methods, as well as applications to environmental problems including wildfire risk assessment, carbon monitoring, and remote sensing. Specifically, my focus is in spatio-temporal statistics, dynamic models, small area estimation, and Bayesian hierarchical modeling.

Publications

Elliot S. Shannon, Andrew O. Finley, Paul B. May, Hans-Erik Andersen, Harold Zald and Grant M. Domke. 2026. Within-fire estimates of biomass loss across national forests of the US West Coast: inventory-informed inference with uncertainty. Submitted to Environmental Research Letters arXiv preprint: 10.48550/arXiv.2610.05614.

Naresh Khanal, Raju Pokharel, Shivan GC, Elliot S. Shannon, Jagdish Poudel, and Emily Silver. 2026. Historical Trends of Market Coverage and Competition of Various Wood Products in Michigan. Journal of Forestry. DOI: 10.1007/s44392-026-00107-7.

Elliot S. Shannon, Andrew O. Finley and Paul B. May. 2026. Accounting for Forest Carbon Loss from Natural Gas Development in a Major U.S. Gas Region. Environmental Science and Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6c00986.

Elliot S. Shannon, Andrew O. Finley, Paul B. May, Grant M. Domke, Hans-Erik Andersen, George C. Gaines III, Arne Nothdurft and Sudipto Banerjee. 2025. Leveraging national forest inventory data to estimate forest carbon density status and trends for small areas. Forest Ecology and Managment. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122999.

Elliot S. Shannon, Andrew O. Finley, Grant M. Domke, Paul B. May, Hans-Erik Andersen, George C. Gaines III and Sudipto Banerjee. 2025. Toward spatio-temporal models to support national-scale forest carbon monitoring and reporting. Environmental Research Letters. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad9e07.

Naresh Khanal, Raju Pokharel, Jagdish Poudel, Shivan Gc, Elliot S. Shannon and Andrew O. Finley. 2024. Analysis of location, feedstock availability, and economic impacts of potential mass timber processing facilities in Michigan. Forest Policy and Economics. DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103203.

Elliot S. Shannon, Andrew O. Finley, Daniel J. Hayes, Sylvia N. Noralez, Aaron R. Weiskittel, Bruce D. Cook and Chad Babcock. 2024. Quantifying and correcting geolocation error in spaceborne LiDAR forest canopy observations using high spatial accuracy data: A Bayesian model approach. Environmentrics. DOI: 10.1002/env.2840.