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. Barbara Muhling

Institution : University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Department : Institute for Marine Sciences | Position : Project Scientist | Expertise : Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Environmental Statistics, Fisheries, Marine Life, Oceanography
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : (Relevant to Chesapeake Bay): statistical downscaling to project future temperature/salinity conditions in the Bay, impacts of climate change on Vibrios in the Bay

Dr. Andrew Muller

Institution : United States Naval Academy | Department : Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences (OEAS) | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Dead Zones, Ecological Modeling, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Education, Environmental Statistics, Nutrient Pollution, Oceanography, Sea Level Rise, Sediment, Water Quality, Environmental Education
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Environmental Literacy, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Developing Neural Network models and wavelet analysis for shallow water estuaries.

Dr. Rebecca Murphy

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences (UMCES) | Department : Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) | Position : Assistant Research Scientist | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Dead Zones, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Statistics, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality | Research interests : tidal water quality data analysis

Mr. Bob Murphy

Institution : Tetra Tech | Department : Center for Ecological Sciences | Position : Fish Ecologist | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Environmental Statistics, Fisheries, Marine Life, Regional Restoration Project Design/Management, Seagrass
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats | Research interests : Microplastics in coastal waters; response of living resources to habitat restoration; SAV restoration and ecology;

Dr. Raghu Murtugudde

Institution : University of Maryland | Department : Atmospheric and Oceanic Science | Expertise : Algae Blooms, Biogeochemistry, Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Communications, Dead Zones, Ecological Modeling, Fisheries, Marine Life, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Oceanography, Sea Level Rise, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Environmental Literacy, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Regionals Earth System Prediction

Dr. Raymond Najjar

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Meteorology and Atmospheric Science | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources)
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : I'm interested in Chesapeake Bay biogeochemistry (nutrients, oxygen, and carbon, mainly) as well as how climate change affects Chesapeake Bay.

Dr. Patrick Neale

Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) | Expertise : Algae Blooms, Biogeochemistry, Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Environmental Microbiology, Oceanography
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality | Research interests : Photobiology, Photochemistry, UV Effects on Aquatic Ecosystems, Phytoplankton Productivity

Dr. David Nelson

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Appalachian Laboratory (AL) | Expertise : Air Quality, Alternative Energy, Biogeochemistry, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Microbiology, Forests, Nutrient Cycling, Water Quality, Wildlife Ecology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Stable isotope ecology and biogeochemistry; effects of renewable energy on wildlife, including migration; paleoecology and paleoclimatology; using isotopes to identify source of pollutants in water and air; watershed biogeochemistry

Dr. Jay Nelson

Institution : Towson University | Department : Biological Sciences | Expertise : Dead Zones, Fisheries, Rockfish, fish physiology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries | Research interests : Intraspecific variation in hypoxia tolerance in striped bass

Dr. Genevieve Nesslage

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) | Expertise : Fisheries, Invasive Species, Wildlife Ecology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats | Research interests : population dynamics of fish, wildlife, and invasive species

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)