Kilham Memorial Lectures

Biographical profile of Peter Kilham (1943-1989)

The Peter Kilham Memorial Fund was established by Susan Soltau Kilham to perpetuate the memory of her husband. The triennial Kilham Lecture is awarded to individuals that aspire to his innovative ideas and research.

Rules for the Administration of the Peter Kilham Memorial Lecture

1. The Peter Kilham Memorial Lecture is administered by the Kilham Memorial Committee according to the following rules adopted by the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology (SIL).
2. The aim of the Kilham Memorial Committee is to honor the memory of Peter Kilham by promoting and stimulating research in the subjects that most interested him and to which he devoted his life.
3. The Peter Kilham Memorial Fund, Inc. will supply SIL with a prize of $1,000 US prior to each triennial congress to be presented to the person chosen as the Kilham Memorial Lecturer. The subject of the lecture will be in one of more of the following areas: African limnology, biogeochemistry, ecology and physiology of planktonic diatoms, comparative ecology of lakes and oceans, paleolimnology, or saline lakes.
4. The selection of the Kilham Memorial Lecturer shall be decided by the Kilham Memorial Committee. The nomination should be announced, if possible, at the congress next before that at which the lecture is to be delivered.
5. The Kilham Memorial Committee shall consist of five members, two of which shall be the President and General Secretary of SIL (who shall act respectively as the Chair and Secretary of the Committee), one member (who must be a member of SIL) shall be named by the Peter Kilham Memorial fund, Inc., and two members will be elected by the International Committee. Preference for elected members shall be given to prior Kilham Memorial Lecturers. Re-election of members is permissible.
6. The Committee shall decide by vote, three members forming a quorum. If the voting is exactly even, the Chair shall have a casting vote. Voting may be by correspondence.

Kilham Lecturers

Congress	Year	Venue	Kilham Lecturer
25	1992	Spain	Robert E. Hecky
26	1995	Brazil	W. D. Williams
27	1998	Ireland	D. A. Livingstone
28	2001	Australia	J. M. Melack
29	2004	Finland	Dag Hessen
30	2007	Canada	Kevin Rogers

Page revised: 21 January 2010