Katja Fennel is an oceanographer studying the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems.
She is a full professor in the Department of Oceanography at Dalhousie University, a former Canada Research Chair in marine prediction, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Biogeosciences.
Katja Fennel studied mathematics at the University of Rostock, where she wrote her diploma thesis in numerical Analysis about the Ekman layer.
[2] Fennel's research focuses on the development and use of computational models to predict and understand marine ecosystems, particularly the causes and effects of changes in oxygen and carbon levels.
[5] In 2018 Fennel was the Ian Morris Scholar in Residence at the Center for Environmental Science at the University of Maryland.