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).

Dr. Erich Hester

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Civil & Environmental Engineering | Expertise : Alternative Energy, Biogeochemistry, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Regional Restoration Project Design/Management, Stream Health, Water Quality, Water Treatment, Stream/river hydraulics, stream/river engineering and restoration, watershed hydrology, contaminant transport, hydropower
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : My research group focuses on how hydrology, hydraulics, and geomorphology interact to influence ecological health and water quality in stream, river, wetland, and groundwater systems. Our goal is to advance process-based knowledge to allow better informed and more sustainable restoration design, pollutant attenuation by natural processes, watershed planning, and energy generation.

Dr. Robert Hilderbrand

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Appalachian Laboratory (AL) | Expertise : Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Fisheries, Land Use, Stream Health, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : Conservation, restoration, and management of headwater streams, stream health using fish, benthic macroinvertebrates, stream microbes, stream monitoring and assessment

Dr. Russell Hill

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology | Expertise : Environmental Microbiology, Sponges
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Environmental Literacy | Research interests : Bacterial symbionts of marine invertebrates, in particular sponges; micro algae and their associated bacteria

Dr. Robert Hirsch

Institution : US Geological Survey (USGS) | Department : Water Resources | Position : Research Hydrologist | Expertise : Environmental Statistics, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : Analysis of watershed nutrient loadings and their trends over time.

Mr. Christopher Holder

Institution : Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | Department : Earth and Planetary Sciences | Position : PhD Graduate Student | Expertise : Algae Blooms, Biogeochemistry, Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Dead Zones, Ecological Modeling, Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Statistics, Genomics/Genetics, Marine Microbiology, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Oceanography, Zooplankton
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Modeling physical processes and biogeochemical interactions in Chesapeake Bay

Dr. James Holmquist

Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) | Department : Ecological Modeling Lab | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecological Modeling, Environmental Statistics, Sea Level Rise
Chesapeake Management Areas : Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Wetland Ecosystem Services, Soil and Plant Carbon Sequestration Potential, Coastal Resiliency, Remote Sensing, and Synthetic Data Building

Dr. Erin Hotchkiss

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Biological Sciences | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Invasive Species, Methane Cycling, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Stream Health, Water Quality, Ecosystem Function
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : Quantifying effects of environmental change on water quality and freshwater ecosystem function; Linking biological and physical processes with carbon and nutrient sources, cycling, and fate in aquatic networks

Dr. Edward Houde

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Environmental Education, Fisheries, Marine Life, Oceanography, Rockfish
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Stewardship | Research interests : fisheries recruitment dynamics, stock assessment, forage species ecology and management

Dr. Jason Hubbart

Institution : West Virginia University | Department : Plant and Soil Sciences, and Forestry and Natural Resources | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Forests, Land Use, Sediment, Stream Health, Water Quality, Physical Hydrology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Healthy Watersheds, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : My current research interests include natural and anthropogenic stressors that affect fundamental relationships of climate, soil, water, atmospheric and biogeochemical interactions that lie at the heart of watershed management. I am interested in quantitative predictive characterizations of the outcomes of current, and future management strategies, and climate change scenarios. I am keenly interested in the examination of appropriateness of current ecosystem management practices and policies and in the Eastern United States and elsewhere given ongoing dynamic population growth and development pressures on fresh water resources. Specific research includes: hydrology and climate, runoff processes, biogeochemical transport and loading (nutrients, chemicals, sediment), hydro-geomorphology, forest hydrology, evaporation and transpiration processes, forest canopy interception processes, watershed hydrology, watershed collaborative adaptive management, water use and management.

Dr. Tom Ihde

Institution : Morgan State University | Department : PEARL (Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory) | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Fisheries, Invasive Species, Marine Life, Nutrient Pollution, Oysters, Rockfish
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality | Research interests : Impact Analysis of Oyster Reef Restoration

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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