Siobhan Fennessy

Siobhan Fennessy is the Philip and Sheila Jordan Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology at Kenyon College where she studies freshwater ecosystems, their plant communities and restoration, how ecosystems respond to human impacts and the role of temperate wetlands in the global carbon cycle. She previously served on the faculty of the geography department of University College London and held a joint appointment at the Station Biologique du la Tour du Valat (located in southern France) where she conducted research on human impacts to Mediterranean wetlands. She co-authored a book on the ecology of wetland plants.

Dr. Fennessy is a 2013 recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to study coastal ecosystems in Spain.