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. Karen Prestegaard

Institution : University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) | Department : Geosciences | Position : Associate Professor | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Nutrient Cycling, Sediment, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Sediment sources and transport in rivers and estuaries, effects of sea grasses on channel velocities and storm surge attenuation, denitrification in freshwater tidal and non-tidal wetlands

Dr. Cibin Raj

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Agricultural and Biological Engineering | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Agricultural Runoff, Jellyfish, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Development and application of watershed simulation models, data analytics, and optimization tools for making sustainable management decisions

Dr. Gurumurthy Ramachandran

Institution : Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | Department : Environmental Health and Engineering | Expertise : Air Quality, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Statistics, Worker exposure and health
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Toxic Contaminants, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship | Research interests : Assessing human exposure to air pollutants in ambient and occupational environments and their health impacts; air pollution control; worker health and safety; statistical analysis

Dr. Matthew Rau

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Mechanical Engineering | Expertise : Sediment, Water Quality, Water Treatment, Particle Aggregation, Fluid Dynamics, Optics
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants | Research interests : Turbulence effects on aggregation and floc breakup and its influence on particle transport in the coastal and open ocean

Dr. William Reay

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Physical Sciences | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Water Quality, Submarine groundwater discharge; wetland and riparian buffers
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : My research interest encompasses two focal areas including: (1) watershed hydrology and nutrient dynamics with an emphasis on the study of groundwater-surface water interactions, and (2) wetland and ecotone response/adaptability to climate change and episodic impacts. I am also actively engaged in the development and implementation of shallow-water monitoring programs, their integration into ocean and coastal observation systems, and more recently the development of climate-change sentinel sites.

Dr. Kimberly Reece

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Aquatic Health Sciences | Expertise : Algae Blooms, Environmental Microbiology, Genomics/Genetics, Marine Microbiology, Oysters
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality | Research interests : Molecular genetic analysis of aquaculture species, shellfish disease pathogens and harmful algal bloom species (HABs). Ecology and impacts of HABs.

Dr. John (Jay) Regan

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) | Expertise : Alternative Energy, Biogeochemistry, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Microbiology, Genomics/Genetics, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Treatment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : Microbial processes related to nitrogen and phosphorus mobility and retention in the landscape and engineered treatment systems, microbial conversion of organic materials into energy carriers through bioelectrochemical systems and anaerobic digesters.

Dr. Allison Reilly

Institution : University of Maryland, College Park | Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering | Position : Assistant Professor | Expertise : Infrastructure resilience modeling
Chesapeake Management Areas : Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Risk assessments primarily related to infrastructure in regions affected by climate change and flooding

Dr. Erin Reilly

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Tidal Marsh Ecology, Citizen Science Programs
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Stewardship | Research interests : Marsh Restoration Ecology

Mr. Marc Ribaudo

Institution : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture | Department : Economic Research Service | Expertise : Environmental Economics
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : Economic analysis of conservation and environmental policy design

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)