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. Thomas Barnard

Institution : Self-employed | Position : Free lance consulting engineer | Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Computer Science, Environmental Engineering, Stream Health, Water Quality, Water Treatment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Water Resources and Water Infrastructure Tools. My experience on both the vendor and user of software products for the analysis and design of water infrastructure gives me a unique perspective on the use of these tools for stormwater management and flood control. I am interested in advancing the state of the art the use of numerical models for stormwater management in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. For example, However, the effectiveness and long-term viability of such best water management practices (BMPs) is poorly understood. Long-term monitoring of demonstration projects is required to address these questions. With this information numerical models can then be used to evaluate the effectiveness management practices on a basin wide scale and develop cost effective strategies. I would like to continue my work on monitoring water quality in surface waters to investigate the movement of constituents through watersheds and their fate in lakes. The work will focus on the use of sensors to measure various parameters on a continuous basis. Data analysis requires integration of historical an ongoing data collected by various parties in the watersheds of interest. The use of large data networks such as the Hydrologic Information System to store and publish time series data is essential.

Dr. Thomas Barnum

Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) | Department : Modeling Lab | Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Environmental Statistics, Seagrass, Stream Health
Chesapeake Management Areas : Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : My current research examines effects of watershed inputs on SAV beds in subestuaries and the main Chesapeake Bay. I am also working on a project that seeks to find optimal habitat for river herring spawning.

Mr. Richard Batiuk

Institution : US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Department : Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Agricultural Runoff, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Dead Zones, Nutrient Pollution, Seagrass
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : Explanation of the Long Term Trends in Water Quality and Biological Resources

Dr. Vanessa Beauchamp

Institution : Towson University | Department : Biological Sciences | Expertise : Ecology, Forests, Invasive Species, Stream Health
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Land Conservation | Research interests : Riparian restoration; wetland restoration; urban forest dynamics and succession; impacts of invasive plant species.

Dr. Joshua Behr

Institution : Old Dominion University (ODU) | Department : Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center | Expertise : Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Sea Level Rise, Social Sciences, Socioeconomic Modeling
Chesapeake Management Areas : Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : social and economic impacts stemming from the Bay and severe weather events; policy impacts upon populations; mitigation and resilience; population impacts

Dr. Fred Benfield

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Biological Sciences | Expertise : Ecology, Land Use, Stream Health, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : Impact of historical and contemporary and-use change on stream structure and function.

Dr. Brian Benham

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Biological Systems Engineering | Position : Professor and Extension Specialist | Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Water Quality, Waterhshed modeling, TMDL development
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Stewardship | Research interests : Improving the capability and appropriate application of computational watershed models

Dr. Blanca Bernal

Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) | Position : Visiting Scientist | Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Biogeochemistry, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Statistics, Forests, Invasive Species, Land Use, Methane Cycling, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Sea Level Rise, Sediment, Stream Health, Water Quality, Carbon Sequestration
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Stewardship | Research interests : ecosystem services of coastal ecosystems, forests, and wetlands; carbon sequestration by ecosystems to abate climate change; coastal resiliency; sustainable development.

Dr. Hongsheng Bi

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) | Expertise : Fisheries, Jellyfish, Oceanography, Zooplankton
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats | Research interests : I deploy plankton imaging systems and sonar imaging systems to study the spatial and temporal dynamics of zooplankton, jellyfish, forage fish, and their trophic interactions.

Dr. Donna Marie Bilkovic

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Center for Coastal Resources Management | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Fisheries, Land Use, Marine Life, Sea Level Rise, wetlands, coastal resilience, estuarine fish habitat, marine debris, community ecology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Living shoreline ecosystems, the role of nature-based approaches as estuarine habitat conservation strategies; mutualism between ribbed mussels and cordgrass and the enhancement of nitrogen removal in salt marshes, ecological and economic impacts of derelict fishing gear; habitat connectivity effects on species abundance and distribution; sustainability in Chesapeake Bay shorescapes: climate change, management decisions, and ecological functions

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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