Former Lab Members

Arianna Horgan recently graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor’s in Biological Sciences and a minor in Public Health. While her future studies will focus on medicine, she remains passionate

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

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

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

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

Glenna Dyson-Roberts, from Western Washington University, joined the Munroe lab as a RIOS intern in 2019. Glenna studied how cownose rays utilize intertidal sand flats and interact with oyster farms.

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

Niki Cleary was an undergraduate from Villanova University studying Environmental Science, who joined the Munroe lab during the summer of 2018 as an NSF sponsored RIOS intern. She studied behavior

SeungWhan (Steve) Lee was a Rutgers student who joined the lab as an intern in the summer of 2017 to study ages of sublegal (discarded) Summer Flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) from

Nadja DiMartino, a marine biology major from UC Santa Cruz joined the lab as a RIOS intern in 2017. Nadja learned new skills in crab larval husbandry in order to