Chesapeake Bay Expertise Database

CBED allows scientists, managers, research funders, and other interested parties to identify experts at CRC member institutions and other CBP partner institutions through searches by scientific discipline, management area, research interests, or institution. Please see the sidebar to learn more.

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To become part of the CBED, simply register your own expertise data here. The application process is form driven and usually takes under 5 minutes. Your application will be processed within 2 weeks.

Following search, click on name to see email address & website (if allowed by registrant).

Mr. Jeremy Hanson

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Biological Systems Engineering | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Social Sciences, Stormwater BMPs; Environmental Policy or Public Policy; Stormwater BMPs
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality | Research interests : Evaluating non point source BMPs' nutrient and sediment reductions for incorporation in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Model

Dr. Ciaran Harman

Institution : Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | Department : Environmental Health and Engineering | Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Environmental Engineering, Hydrology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : Travel time distributions in catchments

Dr. Lora Harris

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences (UMCES) | Department : Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) | Position : Associate Professor | Expertise : Algae Blooms, Biogeochemistry, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Dead Zones, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Environmental Education, Environmental Engineering, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Oceanography, Oysters, Sea Level Rise, Seagrass, Water Quality, Water Treatment, Environmental Education
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Fostering Diversity | Research interests : effects of oxygenation on nutrient cycling; oyster reef modeling using a hybrid IBM and hydrodynamic approach; source tracking of nutrient pollution; impacts of nutrient management in the Potomac estuary; new models for improving diversity and inclusion in the Geosciences

Dr. H. Rodger Harvey

Institution : Old Dominion University (ODU) | Department : Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Crabs, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Sediment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Toxic Contaminants, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : The sources, transformation and fate of natural and anthropogenic organic compounds in aquatic environments and their linkages with climate. Natural product and organic contaminant chemistry.

Dr. Kirk Havens

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Center for Coastal Resources Management (CCRM) | Position : Assistant Director, Associate Professor | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Crabs, Ecology, Invasive Species, Marine Life, Sea Level Rise, Wildlife Ecology, public policy, wetlands, adaptive management, marine debris, biopolymers
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Public Access, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency, Fostering Diversity | Research interests : marine debris, derelict fishing gear, adaptive management, wetlands

Dr. Zhen (Jason) He

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Civil & Environmental Engineering | Expertise : Alternative Energy, Environmental Engineering, Nutrient Pollution, Water Treatment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : Biological wastewater treatment, membrane technology, desalination, resource recovery

Ms. Steph Herbstritt

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Agricultural and Biological Engineering | Position : PhD Student / Research Assistant | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Agricultural Runoff, Alternative Energy, Land Use, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality, Multifunctional buffers
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : My research focuses on utilizing marginal and unprofitable land in ways that improve farm profits, return conservation investments, improve environmental quality, and provide sources of renewable bioenergy feedstocks, and can do so in the face of a changing climate by evaluating management risk and resilience.

Ms. Kimberly Hernandez

Institution : Maryland Department of Natural Resources (MD DNR) | Department : Chesapeake & Coastal Service | Position : Coastal Planner (Natural Resource Planner IV) | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Marine Life, Sea Level Rise, Marine Debris, Plastic Pollution
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : I am on the steering committee for the STAC Microplastics Workshop and also represent Maryland on a regional Mid-Atlantic Marine Debris Work Group. In another role, I co-coordinate the Adaptation & Response Work Group of the Maryland Commission on Climate Change.

Dr. Maria Herrmann

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Meteorology and Atmospheric Science | Position : Assistant Research Professor | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Oceanography, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : net ecosystem production in estuarine environments; air-sea exchange in estuaries; alkalinity trends in Chesapeake tributaries

Dr. Carl Hershner

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Center for Coastal Resources Management (CCRM) | Position : Center director | Expertise : Ecology, Sea Level Rise
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Public Access, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : climate change impacts and adaptation in coastal communities

Instructions for CBED

1 - On-line searching of this database is by one field only. For more complex searches, see “2” below.

2 - For CBED registrants and other approved users having good cause, the CRC can conduct more complex searches on request and provide output to users as a list of names, institutions, and email addresses.

3 - Controlled vocabulary is currently in place for Chesapeake Bay Management Area and some Institutions. For other fields, you may wish to conduct multiple searches – e.g., for a search of experts on fish and fisheries under “expertise”, you might wish to conduct separate searches for “fish”, “living resources”, “pelagic”, etc. (Each of these searches will capture a different set of returns.)

4 - Searches by shortened words will generate a longer list of “hits”. For example, a search by “expertise” for “fish” will find experts who have listed “fisheries.”

5 - Please note that CBED is self-registering and therefore is not comprehensive. In this regard, we ask users to please help us spread the word and encourage expert registration among colleagues. All applications for registration will be reviewed and “vetted” by the CRC prior to inclusion in the database.

6 - If you are a registered expert and would like to change any of your information, simply e-mail your desired changes to us at: CRC-CBED@chesapeake.org. Alternatively, you can RE-REGISTER (here) and send an email to CRC-CBED@chesapeake.org to let us know that you have done so. (You only need to enter your name and the new data for whatever "field" is being changed. It is not necessary to re-complete any fields that are already correct.)

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