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. Shreeram Inamdar

Institution : University of Delaware | Department : Plant and Soil Sciences | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : legacy sediments and water quality, extreme weather events, storms events and watershed runoff, nonpoint source pollution, watershed nutrient loadings

Dr. Claire Jantz

Institution : Shippensburg University | Department : Geography | Expertise : Land Use, Socioeconomic Modeling, Land use change modeling
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : land use change analysis, land use change forecast modeling, coupling land change models with ecosystem models, synergistic effects of land use change and climate change

Mrs. Paula Jasinski

Institution : Chesapeake Environmental Communications | Expertise : Chesapeake Bay Advocacy and Fund-Raising, Communications, Ecology, Environmental Education, Fisheries, Local Community Organization, Oceanography, Oysters, Sea Level Rise
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Public Access, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Developing effective communication products and programs to enhance science literacy among decision makers at all levels. I focus primarily on coastal and marine ecosystems, with an emphasis on Chesapeake Bay.

Dr. Sarah Jensen

Institution : US Department of Energy | Department : Office of Sustainable Environmental Stewardship | Expertise : Alternative Energy, Communications, Ecology, Environmental Education, Land Use, Local Community Organization, Marine Life, Nutrient Pollution, Sea Level Rise, Social Sciences, Stream Health, Water Quality, Wildlife Ecology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Public Access, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Stormwater management, partnerships in support of bay restoration, effects of collaborative efforts among agricultural and watermen stakeholders, EO 13508

Dr. Yan Jiao

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Fisheries Science | Expertise : Ecological Modeling, Environmental Statistics, Fisheries, Marine Life, stock assessment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries | Research interests : Dynamics and management of marine and estuarine species

Dr. Thomas Johnson

Institution : US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) | Department : Office of Research and Development (ORD) | Position : Physical Scientist | Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Nutrient Pollution, Stream Health, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Watershed hydrology and water quality; climate and land use change impacts and management in agricultural, built and natural ecosystems; stream-riparian interactions; stream and watershed restoration; water infrastructure, resilient designs of urban and agricultural systems; decision support and modeling tools.

Dr. Katherine Johnson

Institution : National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | Position : AAAS Postdoctoral Fellow | Expertise : Local Community Organization, Social Sciences, Climate Change Planning and Resilience
Chesapeake Management Areas : Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Ethnographic approaches to understanding social-ecological system vulnerability and resilience to climate change.

Dr. David Johnson

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Biological Sciences | Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Crabs, Ecology, Invasive Species, Marine Life, Sea Level Rise, Salt marsh, range expansion, invertebrates, snails, wetlands
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : effect of sea-level rise, eutrophication, and ocean warming on marshes

Dr. Susan Julius

Institution : US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Department : Office of Research and Development (ORD) | Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Social Sciences, Water Quality, Decision making under uncertainty, climate change adaptation, urban resilience, indicators
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Resilience to climate change using quantitative and qualitative indicators and thresholds for urban areas and sectors, and ecosystems; design and performance of urban BMPs under climate change.

Dr. Luke Juran

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Geography and Virginia Water Resources Research Center | Expertise : Environmental Education, Local Community Organization, Social Sciences, Coastal Hazards & Disasters
Chesapeake Management Areas : Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Water security in coastal communities; reconstruction of water and sanitation systems; coastal disaster mitigation

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.)

Expertise (CBED)