Elise Gislaine Pendall is an American soil and ecosystem ecologist who is a professor at Western Sydney University.

[3] At the University of Wyoming, Pendall studied carbon and water fluxes between ecosystems and the atmosphere.

[1] In 2014 Pendall moved to Western Sydney University,[4] where she joined the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment and established a master's program on Ecosystems in the Changing World.

[5][6] She investigates Eddy covariance, a technique that allows measurement of turbulent fluxes that occur within atmospheric boundary layers, and stable isotope analysis.

As she is located in Sydney, Pendall has investigated local flora, including the native eucalyptus.