Jennifer Gilmore joined the Munroe Lab at the beginning of pandemic lockdowns of summer 2020. As a research technician, Jen helped with a variety of oyster and clam project, taking care of everything from animal husbandry, to literature reviews. Jen moved on to an M.S. in the Coastal and Marine System Science program at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi working under Dr. Jennifer Pollack in the Coastal Conservation and Restoration Ecology Lab.