Career Links Page for Daphne M Munroe

I am a recent graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Animal Sciences Ph.D Program where I did my thesis work in Dr. Scott McKinley’s laboratory. My thesis work focused on larval recruitment patterns of bivalves to intertidal clam farms in British Columbia.

During my time as a doctoral candidate, I was able to combine both field observations with laboratory flume tests to try to understand the influence of clam netting on larval recruitment patterns. I sampled and tracked larval settlement in soft-sediments using density separation methods. I was not able to identify specific relationships of larval settlement and clam netting; however I was able to discern settlement patterns on a small spatial scale. This work is currently in press with Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Sciences and in peer review in Marine Ecology Progress Series.

During the course of my graduate studies, I have become interested in understanding more fully the early life history of mobile species in soft sediments. In particular I am interested in using genetic techniques to identify species of early bivalve settlers and tracking post-larval migrations and survival in soft sediments. In addition, I am interested in using field observations combined with controlled laboratory experiments to more fully elucidate the early settlement patterns and post-larval migrations of mobile benthic species.