Karen Glennemeier is President and Senior Ecologist of Habitat Research LLC. Karen has been studying and restoring woodlands, prairies, and wetlands with the Chicago Wilderness conservation community since 2001 — first with Audubon Chicago Region and then with John G. Shedd Aquarium before founding Habitat Research in 2019. With a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Michigan, she brings a scientific approach to the human practice of ecological restoration.