Some personal details...

Professor Criddle was born in Virginia and completed his primary, secondary, and undergraduate education in Utah. At Utah State University he completed Bachelors degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Spanish, and then went on to complete a Masters degree in Environmental Engineering. In1983 the family moved to California where Dr. Criddle completed his Ph.D. at Stanford in Environmental Engineering, working with Professor Perry McCarty.

He began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University in 1989. During his 9 years at MSU, he served as Project Coordinator for the Schoolcraft Field project and Co-Principal Investigator in the Center for Microbial Ecology. Teaching, research and an engineering consulting practice resulted in publications, patents, and the successful completion of one of the first full-scale applications of bioaugmentation for aquifer remediation.

Since joining the Stanford faculty in 1999, Professor Criddle has taught courses on aquatic chemistry and biology, environmental biotechnology and pathogens and disinfection. He has also worked on diverse research projects and served on committees both internal and external to Stanford.

Outside work, he is mainly occupied with family. With Karrie Ellen Jardine, he has four children, now mostly raised: Spencer (with wife, Candice; grandson, Ike; granddaughter, Kaitlyn), Lani (with husband, Matt, grandson, Tyson), Stephanie (a major in Nursing at Sacramento State), and Trevor (a Senior at Cupertino High School).

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Favorite...
Animals: dogs, dolphins, lemurs, humming birds
Leisure activities: watching kids have fun, chopping wood, fishing, boating, hiking, basketball, reading, raquetball, playing piano, investigating the origins of religious text.
Music/Musicians: Soft rock, Brazilian, Cajun, Celtic / Simon, Estefan, Murray, Kenny G, Enya, B52s, Crow
Movies: City of Joy; It's A Wonderful Life; Monty Python and The Holy Grail; What About Bob?; The Gods Must Be Crazy; Life is Beautiful; Contact; Moulin Rouge; The Truman Show; Monsoon Wedding; The Shawshank Redemption; Seabiscuit; The Emperor's Club.
Fiction: Don Quixote; The Brothers Karamazov
Non-Fiction: The Selfish Gene; The Demon Haunted World; Guns, Germs, Steel; Consilience; Genome; Time, Love, Memory; Life on a Young Planet; The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth; Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Radio: PBS - Prairie Home Companion; Car Talk