Dr. Kerry S. Kilburn

Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences

Education:

Ph.D. Biology, 1988
University of New Mexico

M.S. Biology, 1984
University of New Mexico

B.S. Biology, 1982
California State University, Stanislaus

Teaching Responsibilities:

Biol 108N, Life Sciences I
Biol 109N, Life Sciences II
Biol 203, Evolution
Biol 205, Principles of Ecology
Biol 209, Vertebrate Zoology
Biol 405, Undergraduate Seminar
Biol 441/541, Animal Behavior
Biol 496/596/Hist 395, The Evolution of Darwin--a Journey in the History of Science

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My primary research interests are mammalian ecology and functional morphology. I've also collaborated in studies of California's rare, threatened, and endangered mammals, worked on a project examining fluctuating asymmetry in hybrid mice, and performed contract field work collecting small mammals in the mountains of West Virginia. Because my primary responsibility is teaching, I don't have a current research program. Although I cannot chair graduate committees, I can co-sponsor students and serve on committees. Please feel free to contact me about those possibilities.

Selected Publications:

Williams, D. F., and K. S. Kilburn. 1984. Sensitive, threatened, and endangered mammals of riparian and other wetland communities in California. Pp. 950-956 in California riparian systems ecology, conservation, and productive management (R. E. Warner and K. M. Hendrix, eds.). University of California Press, Berkeley, 1034 pp.

Williams, D. F., and K. S. Kilburn. 1991. Dipodomys ingens. Mammalian Species 377: 1-7.

Williams, D. F., and K. S. Kilburn. 1992. The conservation status of the endemic mammals of the San Joaquin faunal region, California. Proceedings of the conference, Endangered species of the San Joaquin Valley, California: a conference on their biology, conservation, and management. The California Energy Commission, Sacramento, 388 pp.

Kilburn, K. S. In press. Skeletal architecture of the forelimbs in kangaroo rats (Heteromyidae: Dipodomys): adaptations for digging and foraging. In Life Among the Muses: Papers in Honor of James S. Findley (Yates, T. L., W. L. Gannon, and D. E. Wilson, eds.). The Museum of Southwestern Biology, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

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