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. Hamid Karimi

Institution : District of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment | Department : Natural Resources | Position : Deputy Director | Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Biogeochemistry, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants | Research interests : Resolving sources, history, and fate of nitrogen in groundwater and streams; application of environmental tracers and isotopes to determine transport times and reaction rates of dissolved constituents; environmental isotope forensics; water quality effects of agriculture and wastewater disposal in different climatic and hydrogeologic settings.

Dr. Jason Kaye

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Ecosystem Science and Management | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Agricultural Runoff, Biogeochemistry, Ecology, Forests, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : cover crop impacts on nitrogen cycling; greenhouse gas emissions from soils; nitrogen transport from soils to streams; critical zone science

Dr. Sya Kedzior

Institution : Towson University (TU) | Department : Geography and Environmental Planning | Expertise : Local Community Organization, Social Sciences, Water Quality, public environmental knowledge
Research interests : analysis of environmental social movement organizations' public education and communications programs

Dr. Jeni Keisman

Institution : US Geological Survey (USGS) | Department : MD Water Science Center | Expertise : Ecology, water quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : analysis of changes in land use and nutrient inputs and sources; agricultural BMP implementation

Dr. Klaus Keller

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Geosciences | Position : Professor of Geosciences | Expertise : Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Ecological Modeling, Environmental Economics, Environmental Statistics, Sea Level Rise, Social Sciences, Socioeconomic Modeling, Decision Analysis
Chesapeake Management Areas : Climate Resiliency | Research interests : My research addresses two interrelated questions. First, how can we mechanistically understand past and potentially predict future changes in the Earth system? Second, how can we use this information to design sustainable, scientifically sound, technologically feasible, economically efficient, and ethically defensible risk management strategies? I analyze these questions by mission-oriented basic research covering a wide range of disciplines such as Earth system science, economics, engineering, philosophy, decision science, and statistics.

Dr. Armen Kemanian

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Plant and Soil Sciences | Position : Associate Professor | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Alternative Energy, Biogeochemistry, Computer Science, Nutrient Cycling
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Modeling of agricultural performance and nutrient flows in fields, watersheds and regions; bioenergy; greenhouse gas emissions in energy crops and organic systems; international agriculture; soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling; adaptation to abiotic stress; integrated modeling.

Dr. Melissa Kenney

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) | Expertise : Communications, Environmental Economics, Nutrient Pollution, Social Sciences, Socioeconomic Modeling, Stream Health, Water Quality, indicators, decision science, decision support tools and processes, science policy, climate adaptation and mitigation
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Dr. Kenney conducts multi-disciplinary social science research at the intersection of the environment, technology, and society. Strategies and decisions made at this nexus often encounter significant uncertainty about scientific evidence and involve stakeholders with conflicting objectives and values. The goal is to understand and improve the processes and tools that aid these decisions, both in the public and private sectors.

Dr. Erica Keppel

Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Invasive Species, Marine Life, Benthic Ecology, Taxonomy
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality | Research interests : Polychaeta Taxonomy, Invasion ecology, marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. My research is focused on benthic community analysis, the spatio-temporal variability of the macrozoobenthic assemblages and their relationship with abiotic variables.

Dr. Hali Kilbourne

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) | Expertise : Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Oceanography, Sea Level Rise
Chesapeake Management Areas : Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Dynamics of Earth's climate over the last 1000 years, seawater chemistry of coral reefs

Dr. Matt Kirwan

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Physical Sciences | Expertise : Ecology, Forests, Sea Level Rise, Sediment, Salt marshes
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Coastal geomorphology, ecology, and carbon cycling with a focus on how marshes and forests respond to sea level rise.

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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