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Michelle Bulnes Castillo

Michelle, a RIOS intern in the lab in 2023, studied ecosystem services provided by oyster farms. Specifically, she used underwater videos to examine how fouling and gear alters habitat provisioning.


Molly Honecker

Molly Honecker, a RIOS intern in 2023 from Duke University, studied surfclam physiological and behavioral responses to ocean acidification.


Brynne Wisner

Brynne Wisner, a RIOS intern in 2022 from Michigan State, studied the population demographics of surfclams from the southern edge of their range. Her research found that the clams from


Arianna Horgan

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

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

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

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


Glenna Dyson-Roberts

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

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