Joseph Caracappa
As a life-long inhabitant of the U.S. northeast, Joe is particularly interested in regional marine ecology. During his doctoral research in the Munroe Lab, he studied maternal influences on larval
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Jason Morson
PhD Student
Jason Morson’s research interests include population dynamics, stock assessment, and fisheries management. I try to understand how and why fish and shellfish populations change to enable better marine resource management
Emily Manuel
Emily joined the Munroe lab in 2019 as a Master’s student in the ecology and evolution program to study the influence of salinity on larval oyster swimming behavior and early
Jacob Goodwin
Jacob Goodwin was a postdoc in the Munroe lab after completing a PhD at University of Maryland. As a postdoc, Jake studied larval dispersal patterns in Barnegat Bay. Results from
Joseph Nichols
Joseph Nichols, a RIOS intern in 2021 from Virginia Tech, worked with Drs. Jason Morson and Daphne Munroe to determine how a modification to an Atlantic sea scallop dredge impacted
Rebecca Lucero
Rebecca Lucero was a RIOS intern in 2021 from UNC Charlotte. Rebecca joined Daphne Munroe’s lab to analyze how oyster farms may function similarly to oyster reefs in wave attenuation
Jennifer Gilmore
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
Kenichi Hirose
Kenichi Hirose, from Stockton University, was a RIOS intern during the pandemic summer of 2020. His virtual research looked at the performance of a new scallop dredge design for minimizing
Joshua Daw
Josh Daw was a summer research intern in the Munroe Lab in 2018. Josh continued his summer research as a George H Cook scholar in which he studied the ways
Samantha Estrada
Samantha Estrada, an undergrad from Fairleigh Dickinson University, was a RIOS intern in the Munroe lab in 2019. Samantha studied how horseshoe crabs move through intertidal oyster farms to determine