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. Steve Newbold

Institution : US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Department : Office of Policy / National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) | Expertise : Ecological Modeling, Environmental Economics, Social Sciences, Socioeconomic Modeling
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Water Quality, Public Access | Research interests : Integrating ecological models and non-market valuation methods to examine the benefits and costs of water quality improvements in the Chesapeake Bay

Dr. David Newburn

Institution : University of Maryland | Department : Agricultural and Resource Economics | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Environmental Economics, Land Use, Nutrient Pollution, Socioeconomic Modeling, Water Quality, Nutrient trading
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation | Research interests : economics of agricultural and stormwater BMPs; nutrient trading; land-use change modeling; land conservation; land-use policy analysis

Dr. Jennifer Nyland

Institution : Salisbury University | Department : Biological Sciences | Expertise : Toxicology, immunology, immunotoxicology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants | Research interests : immunotoxic effects of environmental contaminants including mercury and arsenic

Dr. Judith O'Neil

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Horn Point Laboratory (HPL) | Expertise : Algae Blooms, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Environmental Education, Environmental Microbiology, Marine Microbiology, Nutrient Cycling, Oceanography, Seagrass, Zooplankton, Phytoplankton
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Environmental Literacy | Research interests : Plankton nutrient and trophodynamics associated with bloom formation; harmful algal bloom proliferation and toxins; impacts of eutrophication and climate change on algal blooms; Environmental Education including, Maryland Environmental Literacy Partnership, and Curriculum + Community Enterprise for Restoration Science (using ecological restoration science for education and citizen science- 'Billion Oyster Project'- NYC).

Dr. Matthew Ogburn

Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) | Department : Fish and Invertebrate Ecology Lab | Position : Ecologist | Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Crabs, Ecology, Fisheries, Invasive Species, Marine Life, Oysters, Zooplankton, Animal Migrations, River Herring, Acoustic Telemetry, Long-term Data
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Healthy Watersheds, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : community and population dynamics of fishery species; ecosystem-based fisheries management; role of animal migrations in ecosystem dynamics; building a genetic barcode library of Chesapeake fishes and invertebrates; conservation and restoration of coastal ecosystems

Dr. Camellia Okpodu

Institution : Norfolk State University | Department : Biological Sciences, DIA designated Center of Academic Excellence | Position : Professor | Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Environmental Education, Toxicology, Trace Metals, Water Quality, Environmental Education
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Dr. Camellia Moses Okpodu, Professor and former Chair of Biology at Norfolk State University (NSU), is the director of both the NSU Defense Intelligence Agency's designated Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence (DIA designated IC-CAE) and the Group for Microgravity and Environmental Biology (GMEB). She has a Ph.D. in Plant Physiology and a minor in Biochemistry from North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC). Before joining NSU, Dr. Okpodu was the Marshall Rauch Distinguished Professor of Biology at Elizabeth City State University (Elizabeth City, North Carolina). She has more than 18 years of experience as an administrator and over 23 years of experience as both a program director and a research scientist. She has served as a project director on a number of research initiatives involving both high school and undergraduate students. Her career has included the directorship of many different types of STEM education projects funded by NASA, NIH, NRO and NSF. Dr. Okpodu has served as an educational consultant to governmental agencies, private foundations, public school divisions, and institutions of higher learning. Dr. Okpodu is a "STEMotivator and Edu-tainer." She enjoys sharing with others her passion, purpose, persist model for resilience. She is a member of the Sigma Xi, Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Honor Society, the American Society of Plant Biology and the Ecological Society of America. She has worked on interdisciplinary projects with the government and with the private sector. She is currently working on projects with Virginia Tech on understanding how plants respond to climate change and Old Dominion University via the University of North Carolina’s Coastal Resilience project, which aims to have an understanding how minority communities respond to the environment. Dr. Okpodu is a member Sigma Xi, Beta Kappa Chi National Scientific Honor Society, and the American Society of Plant Biology. Her academic and professional awards include the Gordon Research Conference Travel Award, the Intelligence Community Faculty Scholar Award, and both the Award of Recognition and the Special Recognition of Merit Award from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In 2013, her biography was included in the National Library of Congress as a Science History Maker. Although she enjoys the professional accolades, her proudest accomplishment is that as a single mother. She raised three college educated women - two who have followed her into STEM (Dr. Samelia Okpodu Pyuzza and Ms. Elizabeth Okpodu) and one who shares her love of the Arts (Ms. Koren-Grace Okpodu). Dr. Okpodu feels that her daughters are a prime example of her strategy in offering an integrated approach to learning.

Dr. Robert Orth

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Biological Sciences | Expertise : Crabs, Ecology, Land Use, Marine Life, Seagrass, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : habitat restoration and conservation and understanding the principles and processes governing the persistence, alterations, and dynamics of submersed aquatic vegetation communities

Dr. Cindy Palinkas

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Horn Point Laboratory (HPL) | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Oceanography, Sea Level Rise, Sediment, Marshes, human impact on sediments
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Sediment transport and deposition in intertidal, fluvial, and estuarine environments; sediment-vegetation feedbacks; tidal marsh response to human and environmental changes; physical impacts of shoreline stabilization structures

Dr. Michael Paolisso

Institution : University of Maryland | Department : Anthropology | Expertise : Algae Blooms, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Crabs, Fisheries, Local Community Organization, Oysters, Sea Level Rise, Social Sciences, socio-ecological resilience, cultural environmental research; climate change governance
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Cultural and socio-economic analysis of climate change impacts for coastal communities and developing multi-level networks to reduce socio-ecological vulnerability to climate/environmental change.

Dr. John Parker

Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) | Expertise : Ecology, Forests, Invasive Species, Regional Restoration Project Design/Management
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : Forest ecology and ecosystem function, including in the riparian zone. Wetlands and mangroves. Biological invasions and herbivory. Climate change impacts on species' distributions and interactions.