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. Tom Richard

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Agricultural and Biological Engineering | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Air Quality, Alternative Energy, Environmental Engineering, Land Use, Methane Cycling, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Land Conservation, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Agroecosystem modeling of carbon, nutrients and greenhouse gas emissions to improve cropping system design; strategic locations of perennials on the landscape; markets for perennial crops and winter crops including fuels, materials and chemicals.

Dr. Emily Rivest

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Biological Sciences | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Communications, Ecology, Oysters, Water Quality, Ecological physiology, estuarine and marine invertebrates
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : consequences of global and local stressors for the physiology of marine invertebrates in coastal ecosystems; interdisciplinary approach to testing hypothesis by employing complementary techniques from other disciplines (oceanographic sensor technology, environmental chemistry, biogeochemistry, coastal ecology); mechanisms of stress tolerance over short time scales (acclimatization) and longer time scales (local adaptation); focus on human-caused stressors such as ocean acidification, ocean warming, and hypoxia, as well as natural environmental variability; study systems include oysters and other bivalves in the Chesapeake Bay, tropical reef corals, and mussels in the temperature rocky intertidal.

Dr. Amanda Rockler

Institution : University of Maryland, College Park | Department : Sea Grant Extension (AGNR) | Position : Watershed Restoration Specialist | Expertise : Environmental Education, Land Use, Local Community Organization, Nutrient Pollution, Regional Restoration Project Design/Management, Social Sciences, Water Quality, Stormwater BMPs- Agricultural, Suburban and Urban
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Behavior change as it relates to implementing small scale stormwater BMPs

Dr. Mike Rosenzweig

Institution : Virginia Tech | Department : Biological Sciences | Expertise : Ecology, Environmental Education, Local Community Organization, Seagrass
Chesapeake Management Areas : Environmental Literacy | Research interests : Higher education outreach and environmental education

Dr. Andrew Ross

Institution : Princeton University | Department : Atmospheric and Oceanic Science | Position : Postdoctoral Research Associate | Expertise : Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Computer Science, Dead Zones, Environmental Statistics, Oceanography, Sea Level Rise
Chesapeake Management Areas : Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Effect of sea level rise on salinity and tides; subseasonal prediction of temperature, salinity, and water quality; climate model analysis and downscaling

Dr. Christopher Rowe

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) | Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Ecology, Toxicology, Wildlife Ecology, Herpetology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Toxic Contaminants | Research interests : Physiological Ecology of Animals; Anthropogenic impacts on wildlife

Dr. Christopher Salice

Institution : Towson University | Department : Environmental Science and Studies/Biology | Expertise : Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Environmental Statistics, Stream Health, Toxicology, Trace Metals, Water Quality, Wildlife Ecology, Zooplankton
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation | Research interests : Ecotoxicity of anthropogenic chemicals including pesticides, perfluorinated chemicals, road salts, and metals. Influence of temperature changes on biological responses to chemical stress. Ecological modeling to predict effects of anthropogenic stressors on populations and communities. Developing novel bioenergetic markers of biological effects in freshwater streams along a rural to urban gradient.

Dr. Lawrence Sanford

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Horn Point Laboratory (HPL) | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Oceanography, Oysters, Seagrass, Sediment, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Sediment processes, especially in shallow nearshore waters. Waves, surface mixing, turbulence, and wind-driven flows. Physical-biological interactions, especially in SAV beds and oyster beds.

Dr. Donald Scavia

Institution : University of Michigan (U-M) | Department : Engineering, Environment and Natural Resources, Environmental Science | Position : Professor Emeritus | Expertise : Algae Blooms, Dead Zones, Ecological Modeling, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : Modeling

Dr. Gary Schafran

Institution : Old Dominion University (ODU) | Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality, Water Treatment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : The influence of inter-basin water transfers on reservoir and treated water quality. Impacts of artificial lake oxygenation on water column and sediment biogeochemical processes and impact on water quality.

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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