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Renae Brodie received supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for RUI: Exploring range limits in the fiddler crab Uca pugnax using the Dynamic Energy Budget approach.
Brodie, R. [Review of] Developmental Biology and Larval Ecology. The Natural History of the Crustacea, Volume 7. The Quarterly Review of Biology 96(1): 58 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/713198
Hews, S., Allen, Z.., Baxter, A., Rich, J., Sheikh, Z. Taylor, K. Wu, J., Zakoul, H. and R. Brodie. (2021). Field based body temperatures reveal the thermoregulatory behaviors of the Atlantic Marsh Crab, Minuca pugnax. PLoS ONE 16(1), e0244458.
Styles, R., S. Borgianini, R. Brodie, J. Jurisa. (2014) Application of a particle transport model in the vicinity of a riverine tidal boundary. Journal of Coastal Sciences 1(2): 1-10.
Staton J.L., Borgianini S.A., Gibson I.B., Brodie R.J., Greig T.W. (2014) Limited gene flow in Uca minax (LeConte 1855) along a linear estuary. Central European Journal of Biology. 9(1):28-36.
Borgianini, S., Styles, R., Brodie, R. 2012. A simple model of megalopal transport in narrow-river dominated estuaries. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 452:179-191.
Received the 2020 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award for his book "Asteroids: Astronomical and Geological Bodies", at the virtual 237th American Astronomical Society meeting.
Received the 2020 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award from the American Astronomical Society for his undergraduate textbook, Asteroids: Astronomical and Geological Bodies (Cambridge University Press, 2017), a comprehensive interdisciplinary introduction to minor planets, their meteorite fragments and their comet and trans-Neptunian object cousins.
Arce, J. A., Salgado-Cartagena, M., et al. (2026). (Re)Calibrating Our Pedagogical Compass for Transformative Spaces of Learning. In L. Fetman & L. DeMartino (Eds.), Moving from Traditional to Transformative Curriculum and Pedagogy. Stylus Publishing, LLC.
