Dr. Susan S. Kilham

Professor
Department of Biology
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Background: Ph.D. - Zoology/Oceanography, Duke University
                         Postdoc at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
                         Faculty at University of Michigan (72-90), 
                         Drexel since 1991 (Bioscience  91-96, SESEP 97-02, Bioscience 02-present), 
                         Acting Director of SESEP 00-02. 

Research Interests:

Aquatic ecology, physiological ecology of phytoplankton (especially diatoms), consumer/algal interactions, food quality in food webs (microcapsule technology), bioaccumulation of toxins in food webs, use of stable isotopes in food web studies, ecological stoichiometry, tropical lakes and streams, climate change studies in Yellowstone, effects of frog extinctions on ecosystem processes.

Current or Pending Research Grants:

National Science Foundation Grant EAR -00018884, Co-Principal Investigator. 2000-2004. $713,500. An acre an hour: Documenting the effects of urban sprawl on a model watershed in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . (P.I.: C. Welty; other Co-PIs: A. L. Packman and R. J. Brulle).
 
National Science Foundation Grant, Principal Investigator. 2003-2006. $200,000. (DEB-0234149) Collaborative Research: Response of tropical stream ecosystem structure and function to amphibian extinctions. (Collaborators: C. M. Pringle, University of Georgia and K. Lips and M. Whiles at Southern Illinois University have separate grants)

Courses Taught:

Marine Ecology
Aquatic Toxicology
Evolutionary Ecology
Aquatic Ecology