Expertise (CBED)

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).
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Dr. Lewis Linker

Institution : US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) | Department : Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) | Expertise : Air Quality, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Ecological Modeling, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Sediment, Water Quality, airshed, watershed, and estuarine modeling
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Assessment of climate change, Conowingo infill, and Phase 3 Watershed Implementation Plan development on Chesapeake water quality

Dr. John Little

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering | Expertise : Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Nutrient Pollution, Sediment, Water Quality, Water Treatment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : coupled food/energy/water systems; a systems approach to sustainability

Dr. Katrina Lohan

Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) | Department : Marine Disease Ecology Laboratory | Expertise : Environmental Microbiology, Genomics/Genetics, Invasive Species, parasite ecology, infectious disease ecology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : parasite and infectious disease ecology of coastal invertebrates and seagrasses

Dr. Dave Love

Institution : Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | Department : Environmental Health and Engineering (EH&E) | Expertise : Environmental Microbiology, Oysters, Water Quality, Aquaculture, Food Systems, Supply Chains
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : The intersection of food production and public health, including associated environmental, social, economic, and political issues.

Dr. Mark Luckenbach

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Office of Research & Advisory Service | Expertise : Ecology, Marine Life, Oysters
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Marine Restoration Ecology; benthic ecology, oysters, shellfish aquaculture

Dr. Vyacheslav Lyubchich

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), Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Computer Science, Environmental Economics, Environmental Statistics
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : time series analysis, forecasting, applied statistics, non-parametric inference, bootstrap, environmental modeling, random networks

Dr. Roop Mahajan

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Mechanical Engineering | Expertise : Alternative Energy, Water Treatment, 2Transport processes in porous media D Materials for water
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants | Research interests : Graphene and its derivatives for water filtration

Dr. Sairah Malkin

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science | Department : Horn Point Laboratory (HPL) | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Dead Zones, Ecology, Environmental Microbiology, Marine Microbiology, Methane Cycling, Nutrient Cycling, Seagrass, Sediment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality | Research interests : My research aims to better quantify and predict rates and pathways of biogeochemical cycling in aquatic systems, integrating tools from aquatic geochemistry and microbial ecology. A main theme of my research is to better understand carbon and nutrient processing through benthic pathways in aquatic ecosystems, with a particular interest in sulfur oxidizing bacteria in aquatic sediments.

Dr. Joseph Mankowski

Institution : Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | Department : Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology (School of Medicine) | Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Environmental Microbiology, Genomics/Genetics, Marine Microbiology, Wildlife Ecology, zoonotic diseases
Chesapeake Management Areas : Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : Chesapeake Bay Microbiome

Dr. Kirk Mantay

Institution : GreenTrust Alliance | Department : Ecosystem Restoration | Expertise : Chesapeake Bay Advocacy and Fund-Raising, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Forests, Invasive Species, Regional Restoration Project Design/Management, Wildlife Ecology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Public Access, Stewardship | Research interests : Thin Layer / Beneficial Use Habitat Enhancement (Adaptive Management and Monitoring), Fish and Amphibian Response to Floodplain and Wetland Restoration, Coastal Plain Forest Assessment, Trends, and Trajectories.