Affiliated Departments & Programs
Siobhan Fennessy is the Philip and Sheila Jordan Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology whose research focuses on how wetland plant species diversity and biogeochemical cycles respond to human disturbance, and how that can be mitigated with ecological restoration. Fennessy won a Fulbright Fellowship to work in Spain on carbon dynamics in Mediterranean wetlands, recently served as an author on the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Assessment of the global environment and is serving on the U.S. National Academies of Science’s panel to review progress on the Everglades Restoration. Fennessy previously served on the faculty of the Geography Department of University College London with a research position at la Tour du Valat biological station (France). She is currently working with Kenyon’s science and nature writing program.
Areas of Expertise
Wetland ecosystem ecology, plant community response to disturbance, climate change and wetland carbon cycles
Education
1991 — Doctor of Philosophy from The Ohio State University
1986 — Bachelor of Science from The Ohio State University