Professor Whitlow teaches: General Biology - Evolution, Ecology, & Biodiversity (BIOL 162/172); Ecology (BIOL 470); Tropical Ecology (BIOL 492); as well as courses for SU students at the Blakely Island Field Station - Marine Ecology (BIO 4810) and Aquatic Ecology (BIO 4815).

His research interests focus on community, population, and behavioral ecology through four components: contamination, urbanization, restoration, and invasion. His research group, the Seattle University Creative Collaboration On Terrestrial and Aquatic Scientific Hypotheses (SUCCOTASH), incorporates a team of outstanding undergraduate researchers with colleagues from other departments on campus, and their work has recently focused on two primary projects:

• Investigating how contaminants in urban runoff affect ecosystems by measuring concentrations among environmental compartments and responses by aquatic organisms.
• Examining how urbanization affects biodiversity of leaf litter invertebrates by comparing community composition at sites across the urban-rural gradient