• PhD, Clemson University
• Postdoctoral Research, University of South Carolina
• Postdoctoral Research, University of Hong Kong

Office Hours

• By appointment

Courses Taught

• BIO 199SEM Biology in the News

STEM education, marine ecology

• Chan SHM, Ong DRY, Williams GA, Crickenberger S, Loke LHL, Todd PA. 2022. Behaviour broadens thermal safety margins on artificial coastal defences in the tropics. Marine Environmental Research. 177: 105618.
• Hui TY, Crickenberger S, Lau WTJ, Willams GA. 2022. Why are “suboptimal” temperatures preferred in a tropical rocky intertidal ectotherm? Journal of Animal Ecology. 91(7): 1400-1415.
• Crickenberger S, Hui TY, Landry Yuan F, Bonebrake TC, Williams GA. 2020. Preferred temperature of intertidal ectotherms: Broad patterns and methodological approaches. Journal of Thermal Biology. 87: 102468.
• Chan SHM, Loke LHL, Crickenberger S, Todd PA. 2019. Robonerite: A low-cost biomimetic temperature logger to monitor operative temperatures of a common gastropod (Nerita spp.) in tropical urban seascapes. HardwareX. 6: e00075.
• Wares J, Crickenberger S, Skoczen K, Trapnell D, Hamrick J, Wethey DS, Govindarajan AF. 2018. The cryptic biology of Chthamalus fragilis (Darwin 1854) on the Atlantic coast of North America. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 38(6): 754-764.
• Crickenberger S, Wethey DS. 2018. Annual temperature variations as a time machine to understand the effects of long-term climate change on a poleward range shift. Global Change Biology. 24(8): 3804-3819.
• Crickenberger S, Wethey DS. 2018. Reproductive physiology, temperature, and biogeography: the role of fertilization in determining the distribution of the barnacle Semibalanus balanoides. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 98(6): 1411-1424.
• Crickenberger S, Walther K, and Moran A. 2017. Lower thermal limits to larval development do not predict poleward range limits of the introduced tropical barnacle Megabalanus coccopoma. Invertebrate Biology. 136(1): 37-49.
• Crickenberger S. 2016. Predicting a range shift and range limits in an introduced tropical marine invertebrate using species distribution models. Hydrobiologia. 763(1): 193-205.
• Crickenberger S, Walther K, Marchant S, Marko P, and Moran A. 2015. Acclimatization of thermal tolerance in larvae of the rocky-shore barnacle Pollicipes elegans. Invertebrate Biology. 134(4): 291-302.
• Crickenberger S, Moran A. 2013. Rapid range shift in a tropical marine invertebrate.  PLoS ONE 8(10): e78008.
• Walther K, Crickenberger S, Marchant S, Marko P, and Moran A. 2013. Thermal tolerance of larvae of Pollicipes elegans, a marine species with an antitropical distribution. Marine Biology. 160(10): 2723-2732.