Siobhan Fennessy is the Philip and Sheila Jordan Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology at Kenyon College, and is a wetland ecologist studying the response of wetland plant communities and biogeochemical cycles to human disturbance, and how ecosystem degradation can be reversed by ecological restoration. Fennessy previously served on the faculty of the Geography Department at University College London and has worked for many years with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s wetland indicators program. She served as a Fulbright Fellow (Spain) working on blue carbon dynamics in Mediterranean wetlands, and recently served as a lead on the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Americas Regional Assessment as well as the IPBES Global Assessment of Land Degradation and Restoration. She recently finished her third 2-year appointment to the US National Academies of Science’s panel to review progress on the Florida Everglades Restoration.
