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  Susan S. Kilham, Ph.D.  
 

Position(s):
Professor, Dept. of Biology

 
       
 

Office: 312 Stratton Hall

Phone: (215) 895-2628 (Office)
            
Email: kilhams@drexel.edu
 
 
 
  Educational Information

B.S. - Biology, Florida Presbyterian College (now Eckerd College) (1965)
Ph.D. - Zoology & Oceanography, Duke University (1971)
Post-Doctoral - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA (1972)

 
     
 

Courses Taught

ENVR330: Aquatic Ecology
ENVR390: Marine Ecology
ENVR511: Evolutionary Ecology
ENVR711: Aquatic Toxicology

 
 
 
  Research Focus

Aquatic ecology, Physiological ecology of phytoplankton (especially diatoms), Consumer/algal interactions, Food quality, Stable isotopes and ecological stoichiometry in food webs, Tropical lakes and streams, Yellowstone Lake Ecosystems, Climate change.

To view some of Dr. Kilham's published work [...click here...]

 
     
 

Post-Docs and Graduate Students

Dr. Sebastian Interlandi, Assistant Research Scientist: Climate change and its effects on aquatic 
ecosystems. Lynette Saunders: The nutritional quality of metaphyton communities during the summer season.
Eugenia Zandona: Food web and community diversity along a predation gradient in the streams
of the Northern Range in Trinidad.
 
 
 
 

Personal/Laboratory Website(s):

 

Kilham Lab Website