Siobhan Fennessy is an associate professor of Biology at Kenyon College where she and her students study freshwater wetlands, biological assessment methods, restoration ecology, 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 investigating human impacts to Mediterranean wetlands. During a subsequent position at Ohio EPA, she founded Ohio's wetland program and wrote the current rules designed to protect wetlands. She is a member of the U.S EPA's Biological Assessment of Wetlands Workgroup, a national technical committee working to develop biological indicators of ecosystem condition, and is currently lead on a project to test the use of rapid assessment methods to evaluate the ecological condition of wetlands on a watershed basis.

email: fennessym@kenyon.edu

David Heithaus acts as the BFEC's Land & Facility Manager and is responsible for maintaining and conserving the BFEC's 380 acres of natural habitat. Additionally, he is tasked with monitoring and expanding the center's trail systems and gardens, facilitating research projects, and helping to organize community events with Program Manager Heather Doherty. Heithaus is a 1999 graduate of Kenyon College and has worked as a Wilderness specialist, biological technician, and ecological research consultant in Arizona, North Carolina and Western Australia respectively.

email: heithausd@kenyon.edu

Heather Doherty is the Program Manager at the BFEC, responsible for developing educational programs that serve Kenyon College as well as adults and children throughout Knox County. Heather is an Ohio native and grew up in southwestern portion of the state. She earned a B.A. in Biology at Kenyon College in 1998. Since then, Heather has worked in a variety of disciplines related to the environment, including field research in Utah and regulatory work with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Health and Natural Resources. Most recently, she coordinated a small nonprofit watershed group in Columbus, Ohio before joining the staff of the BFEC.

email: dohertyh@kenyon.edu

Heather Doherty
Program Manager

Jill Locotos Kerkhoff is the BFEC Facility and Program Assistant. A recent (2005) émigré to Knox County and the Kenyon Community, Jill spent 15 years as an elementary and Montessori schoolteacher in central New Mexico and southern Arizona. Jill acts as the BFEC administrative assistant and helps coordinate a number of volunteer-staffed activities, including the BFEC student managers, the summer garden program, animal care, and school field trips. She especially loves the daily discoveries of working in the garden during the summer, and the collaborative interactions she shares with Kenyon students and staff.

email: kerkhoffj@kenyon.edu