Eloise Kendy © The Nature Conservancy The Global Freshwater Team Brian Richter, Co-leader Nicole Silk, Co-leader David Harrison, Senior Advisor   Karin Krchnak, Director of International Water Policy Eloise Kendy, Director, Environmental Flows Program Andrew Warner, Senior Advisor for Water Management Robert Wigington, Western Water Policy Counsel Tom FitzHugh, Water Management Analyst Jeff Opperman, Technical Advisor for Water Management Diédre Paterno Pai, Outreach Manager Sharon Davis, Program Coordinator

Eloise Kendy 
Environmental Flows Director
Global Freshwater Team

As Director of the Environmental Flows Program, Eloise Kendy provides technical, scientific, and policy support to the Global Freshwater Team and the Nature Conservancy as a whole. She provides leadership in advancing the tools, policies, and information related to environmental flow protection in rivers, lakes, and groundwater ecosystems.

A primary focus of Eloise’s work is advancing water policy changes at state and national levels, based upon sound science. She works closely with governments, energy production agencies, water resource managers, and other non-government organizations to advance global water policies that ensure adequate water flows in rivers, lakes and wetlands. She also advises conservation teams on designing and conducting adaptive management experiments that incorporate environmental flow protection.

Prior to joining the Conservancy, Eloise conducted water-resource assessments and hydrologic modeling and provided public education and legal and policy support for sound water management, particularly concerning the interactions between ground water and surface water.  She was an independent consulting hydrogeologist, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, a hydrologist and policy analyst with the International Water Management Institute, and a Congressional Science Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Eloise holds a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), a M.S. in hydrogeology from The University of Wisconsin (Madison) and a B.A. in geological sciences from the University of California (Santa Barbara). Her research has been published in Water Resources Research, Ground Water, Journal of Hydrology, Hydrologic Processes, Hydrogeology Journal, Agricultural Water Management, Water Policy, and Water International.