[5] She then interned at the Archbold Biological Station in Lake Placid, Florida from June 1999 to July 2000 where she worked on a project that focused on tracking herbivore activity on the endangered Liatris ohlingerae.

[5] Kettenring began her career as a graduate research assistant during her time at the University of Minnesota.

[5] She then conducted post-doctoral research for the Field Museum of Natural History and the Morton Arboretum in 2006 with Andrew Hipp.

[5] After that, she was a postdoctoral fellow for the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland from 2006 to 2008 where her work focused on the invasion of Phragmites australis in Chesapeake Bay tidal wetlands.

[5] Kettenring is the head of the Wetland Ecology Restoration Lab in the Department of Watershed Sciences.

[1] The research in her lab focuses on addressing questions relating to the mechanisms and impacts of plant invasions in wetlands.