B.Sc. Biological Sciences. Cornell University.

M.Sc. Population Biology. University of California, Davis.

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Science Fellow, and
HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow. Department of Biology. Stanford University.

Watson-Zink, V.M., Grosberg, R.K., Lai, J.C.Y., & Bay, R.A. (2024). Transcriptomic responses of gecarcinid land crabs to acute and prolonged desiccation stress. BioRxiv: 601969

Juarez, B.H., Buck, G.A., Lacey, M.P., O’Connell, L.A., & Watson-Zink, V.M. (2024). Sexual dimorphism of metabolism in vampire crabs (Geosesarma hagen) is temperature and size-dependent. EcoEvoRxiv X23S5C

Wolfe, J.M., Ballou, L., Luque, J., Watson-Zink, V.M., Ahyong, S.T., Barido-Sottani, J., Chan, T.Y., Chu, K.H., Crandall, K.A., Daniels, S.R., Felder, D.L., Mancke, H., Martin, J.W., Ng, P.K.L., Ortega-Hernández, J., Theil, E.P., Pentcheff, N.D., Robles, R., Thoma, B.P., Tsang, L.M., Wetzer, R., Windsor, A.M., & Bracken-Grissom, H.D. (2024). Convergent Adaptation of True Crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) to a Gradient of Terrestrial Environments, Systematic Biology, syad066

Vermeij, G.J. & Watson-Zink, V.M., (2022). Terrestrialization in gastropods: lineages, ecological constraints, and comparisons with other animals. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society blac053, 1-12.

Cumberlidge, N., Caro, T., Watson-Zink, V.M., Naruse, T., Ng, P.K.L., Orchard, M., Rahayu, D.L., Wowor, D., Yeo, D.C.J., & White, T. (2022). Troubled giants: The updated conservation status of the coconut crab (Birgus latro). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 70: 1-21.

Watson-Zink, V.M. (2021). Making the Grade: Physiological adaptations to terrestrial environments in decapod crabs. Arthropod Structure and Development, 64, 101089.

Caro, T., Hamad, H. Rashid, R., Kloiber, U., Morgan, V.M., Caro, B., Pretelli, I., Cumberlidge, N., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2020). A case study of the coconut crab Birgus latro on Zanzibar highlights global threats and conservation solutions. Oryx, The International Journal of Conservation. 1-8. doi:10.1017/S0030605319000863.

Cumberlidge, N., Caro, T., Morgan, V.M., Ng, P.K.L., Orchard, M., Rahayu, D.L., Wowor, D., Yeo, D.C.J., & White, T. (2020). Birgus latro. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T2811A126813586.

Caro, T., Cluff, E., & Morgan, V.M. (2019). Colour polymorphism and protective coloration in coconut crabs. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 31 (6): Pgs. 1-12.

Caro, T. & Morgan, V.M. (2018). Correlates of color polymorphism in coconut crabs, Birgus latro. Zoology 129, Pgs. 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2018.06.002

deVries, M.S., Webb, S.J., Tu, J., Cory, E., Morgan, V.M., Sah, R.L., Deheyn, D.D., & Taylor, J.R.A. (2016). Stress physiology and weapon integrity of intertidal mantis shrimp under future ocean conditions. Scientific Reports 6, 38637; doi: 10.1038/srep38637