Shannon O'Dunn

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6029 Poppy Street
La Mesa, CA 91942-4109

1986 California Community Colleges Supervisory Credential
1969 Master of Science, Geology, University of Colorado, Boulder
1969 California Standard Teaching Credential, Lifetime, Major in Geology
1965 Bachelor of Arts, Geology, San Diego State University, with Honors, and with Distinction in Geology

2000-05 Dean, Communication and Fine Arts Division, Grossmont College
Managed a $4.5 million/year instructional division including Art, Communication, Dance, Media Communication, Music, and Theatre Arts: 34 full-time and 70 part-time faculty, 10 classified employees, and 50 hourly workers. Specialized programs/facilities include an extensive 3-D art production yard and 13 kilns, a state-of-the-art theatre, 2 dance studios, a regional symphony orchestra and master chorale, public art gallery with seven shows annually, a TV/video studio, radio station, and post-production digital audio and video laboratories, campus newspaper production, and a nationally competitive forensics team.
1986-93 Director, Grants/Contract Instruction Grossmont-Cuyamaca CCD
Wrote successful grants for program development in all disciplines, to local,
state, federal, and private sources. Developed student admission and
contract instruction programs with Tokyo Foreign Language College, the
University of Okinawa, and Jin’ai Women’s Junior College. Founded
American Collegiate English, a revenue-generating program to recruit and
transition visa students into Grossmont credit programs.

2007-09 Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee, Grossmont-Cuyamaca CCD (Link)
2007-08 Board member, Grossmont College Foundation (Link)
2007-08 La Mesa Lion’s Club Board Member (Link)
2008 Secretary, Foothills Republican Women Federated
1999-08 Geology Trainer, Mission Trails Regional Park Trail Guide Program
2002-04 Chaperone, Grossmont High School Red Robe Choir; France, and Italy
2003 Christmas Fundraiser Coordinator, Grossmont High School PTSA Barnes and Noble gift wrap ($3800 raised)
1999-00 Science Olympiad Volunteer, Parkway Middle School, La Mesa, CA
1998-00 Judge, Greater San Diego Area Science Fair, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA

2005 Dean Emerita, Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District
2005 Innovator of the Year, Grossmont College, for IPP/FPP proposals to State of CA, Category ‘D’ Performing Arts Center for Grossmont College
2000 Honored Alumnus of the Year, SDSU Dept of Geological Sciences. Banquet speech, “Western Impressions: the Artist’s Eye” (Link)
1980-81 President, San Diego Association of Geologists (Link)
1979-80 National Science Foundation Professional Development Award (1-year full salary for research in industry w/ Woodward-Clyde Consultants)

2007 Speaker: “The Mount Soledad Landslide 2007”. Mission Trails Regional Park; La Mesa Lion's Club.
2004 Speaker, College of Alameda, Peralta CCD Staff Development Week, Spring 2004: “Scientific Illustration vs. Art: A Fine Line.”
2004 Co-Presenter, CCCAOE/CIO Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA: “To Inoculate or Acculturate: A Faculty Orientation Question”.
2002 Speaker, Science Colloquium, Grossmont College: “Illustration and Fine Art in the Natural Sciences”
2001 Speaker, California Arts Club San Diego Chapter: “Geologic Aspects of American Landscape Painting, 1850-1950”
2000 Presenter, Geological Society of America annual meeting, Reno, NV: “Eocene Volcanism in the Rockies: Two Artistic Views”
2000 Invited Panelist, Nat’l Science Foundation/National Assn. of Geology Teachers 2-Year College Leadership Conference, Washington, D.C.
1999 Forum Speaker, SDSU Department of Geological Sciences: “Illustration and Art in Geology: A Fine Line.”

1983 Session Moderator, Seismic Safety, Association of Engineering Geologists National Convention, San Diego, CA
1983 Geological Consultant, Public Works Department of the County of San Diego: a survey of the geology and archaeological value of a site on Cuyamaca Street in El Cajon, CA
1982 Geological Consultant, Robert Prater Associates, San Diego: Rancho Del Oro Industrial Park, Oceanside, CA
1980 Project Geologist, Woodward-Clyde Consultants, San Diego: Helix Heights alternate site for the Navy Regional Medical Center, San Diego, CA
1979 Field Geologist, Woodward-Clyde Consultants, San Diego: field survey of quarry sites for US Navy airport construction, Kosrae and Ponape, Micronesia

2000 King, O’Dunn, Sampson, Sverdrup, VanderPluijm, GeoClass Interactive CD-ROM, Int’l Thomson/Brooks Cole Publishing, Pacific Grove, CA
2000 O’Dunn, Chapter-end Internet/CD-ROM links for Geology and the Environment, Int’l Thomson/Brooks Cole Publishing, Pacific Grove, CA
1999 O’Dunn, Instructor’s Manual for Historical Geology, Evolution of the Earth and Life Through Time, Int’l Thomson/Brooks Cole Publ, Pacific Grove, CA
1998 O’Dunn, Self-Guided Geology Field Tours of San Diego County, sabbatical leave project, Grossmont College
1997 O’Dunn, Exploring Earth, Test Bank for Physical Geology, Prentice-Hall, NJ
1995 O’Dunn, Student Study Guide, EARTH, An Introduction to Geologic Change, Prentice-Hall, NJ
1986 O’Dunn and Sill, Exploring Geology, A Laboratory Manual, Prentice Hall, NJ (Link)
1981 Abbott and O’Dunn, Editors, Geologic Investigations of the San Diego Coastal Plain, a San Diego Association of Geologists Guidebook