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.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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. Jack Meisinger
Institution : USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) |
Department : Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory (University of Maryland) |
Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Air Quality, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality |
Research interests : Fate and transport of agricultural nitrogen, Development of nitrogen best management practices, Ammonia emissions from agriculture
Mr. Bart Merrick
Institution : NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) |
Department : Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO), NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO) |
Position : Education Coordinator |
Expertise : Communications, Environmental Education, Environmental Education
Chesapeake Management Areas : Environmental Literacy |
Research interests : Impact of environmental literacy programming on student learning and stewardship behaviors
Dr. Alexander Metcalf
Institution : University of Montana |
Department : Conservation Social Science |
Expertise : Ecology, Environmental Statistics, Forests, Invasive Species, Land Use, Local Community Organization, Social Sciences, Socioeconomic Modeling
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Public Access, Stewardship |
Research interests : Conservation behavior change and marketing
Dr. Thomas Miller
Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) |
Department : Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) |
Expertise : Crabs, Ecological Modeling, Environmental Statistics, Fisheries, Oysters, Rockfish
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries |
Research interests : Dynamics of exploited marine and estuarine species including blue crab, oyster, striped bass, menhaden and black sea bass
Mr. Odette Mina
Institution : Penn State University (PSU) |
Department : Office of the Vice President of Research |
Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Environmental Chemistry, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality |
Research interests : emerging contaminants in surface water impacted by agricultural practices
Dr. Molly Mitchell
Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) |
Department : Center for Coastal Resources Management (CCRM) |
Position : Researcher |
Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Sea Level Rise
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Shifts in coastal ecological systems due to the interaction of sea level rise and human-driven changes, sea level rise forecasting and adaptations (both ecological and social)
Dr. Carys Mitchelmore
Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) |
Department : Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) |
Position : Professor |
Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Agricultural Runoff, Algae Blooms, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Crabs, Dead Zones, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Microbiology, Fisheries, Genomics/Genetics, Invasive Species, Jellyfish, Local Community Organization, Marine Life, Marine Microbiology, Nutrient Pollution, Oysters, Rockfish, Seagrass, Sediment, Stream Health, Toxicology, Trace Metals, Water Quality, Water Treatment, Wildlife Ecology, Zooplankton, oil spill response and impact, forensics, ballast water, emerging contaminants, human health
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Healthy Watersheds |
Research interests : Environmental Health and Toxicology; investigating the fate and effect of chemicals and other stressors on organisms. A focus on understanding the routes of exposure, uptake, metabolism and target site(s) of contaminants, mechanism(s) of action/effect and consumption risks for higher trophic levels. Toxicity testing and application (including risk assessment, regulation and management activities, determining ballast water technique efficacy and risks) and the development and use of various biomarkers at multiple levels in various invertebrate and vertebrate species, including early-life stages.
Dr. Mark Monaco
Institution : NOAA National Ocean Service |
Department : National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science |
Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Fisheries
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Stewardship |
Research interests : Impact of habitat modifications on species distributions and abundance & marine spatial planning.
Dr. Kenneth Moore
Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) |
Department : Biological Sciences |
Position : Professor |
Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Nutrient Cycling, Seagrass, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : My research studies have focused on the ecology of estuarine and coastal shallow water environments, especially those vegetated with marshes, seagrasses and other submersed aquativ vegetation. Specifically, I have studied the relationships between these aquatic macrophyte systems and environmental factors including water quality conditions that limit their growth, survival and restoration. These studies have been hierarchal in nature, ranging from the physiological response of individual organisms, to field studies of seagrass restoration, to ecosystem-level response of seagrass beds to management actions in the Chesapeake Bay. Similarly, tools for investigating these different levels have varied, from measurements of plant photosynthesis both in the field and in the lab, using pulsed modulated fluorescence (PAM) and other techniques, to bay-wide abundance changes using remotely sensed data and satellite imagery. I am very active in coastal resource management at the state, regional and national levels, focusing on shallow water quality issues and SAV restoration.
Dr. Joel Moore
Institution : Towson University |
Department : Physics, Astronomy, & Geosciences |
Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Nutrient Cycling, Stream Health, Trace Metals, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Healthy Watersheds |
Research interests : Effects of urbanization on stream chemistry (with implications for nutrient cycling); assessment of the effectiveness of stream restoration on nutrient and sediment load reduction
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.)