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.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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).
Ms. Julianne Schieffer
Institution : Penn State University (PSU) |
Department : Ecosystem Science and Management |
Position : Extension Urban Forester |
Expertise : Chesapeake Bay Advocacy and Fund-Raising, Environmental Education, Invasive Species, Land Use, Local Community Organization, Stream Health, Water Quality, Wildlife Ecology, Environmental Education, Riparian buffers, Green Infrastructure
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Stewardship, Fostering Diversity |
Dr. Eric Schott
Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences (UMCES) |
Department : Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology (IMET) |
Expertise : Crabs, Genomics/Genetics, Local Community Organization, Oysters
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries |
Research interests : My research focuses on understanding aquatic health, particularly the discovery and tracking of estuarine pathogens in the blue crab and other shellfish. I am also interested in biodiversity and habitat potential of urban estuaries, and linking stakeholders with scientists to work towards common goals in urban waters.
Dr. Madeline Schreiber
Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) |
Department : Geosciences |
Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Sediment, Trace Metals, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants |
Research interests : Groundwater quality, trace metal/element release from natural and human sources, contaminant transport
Dr. Durelle Scott
Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) |
Department : Biological Systems Engineering |
Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Biogeochemistry, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds |
Research interests : Nutrient fate and transport through river corridors; Riverine floodplain hydrologic connectivity and biogeochemistry
Dr. David Secor
Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) |
Department : Chesapeake Biological Laboratory |
Expertise : Alternative Energy, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Ecology, Fisheries, Rockfish
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Fisheries Stock Assessment/sustainable fisheries, Fish Habitat Analysis, Climate effects on fish distributions, Wind Energy impacts
Dr. Richard Seigel
Institution : Towson University |
Department : Biological Sciences |
Expertise : Ecology, Environmental Education, Environmental Statistics, Wildlife Ecology, Herpetology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Land Conservation, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Population ecology and wildlife management of amphibians and reptiles
Dr. Rochelle Seitz
Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) |
Department : Biological Sciences |
Position : Research Professor |
Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Crabs, Ecology, Fisheries, Land Use, Marine Life, Oysters, Seagrass, Clams
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency, Fostering Diversity |
Research interests : My research expertise encompasses three primary areas of focus, including (i) effects of environmental stress, such as shoreline development and hypoxia, upon benthic invertebrate diversity, (ii) predator-prey dynamics and top-down versus bottom-up control of benthic systems, and (iii) restoration ecology. My current research projects continue my emphasis on the three research areas noted above, and include the impacts of habitat degradation on faunal communities, restoration of bivalves in Chesapeake Bay, nursery habitat quality for the blue crab in Chesapeake Bay, benthic predator-prey relationships, and food-web dynamics.
Dr. Kevin Sellner
Institution : Hood College |
Department : Center for Coastal & Watershed Studies |
Position : Sr. Scholar |
Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Agricultural Runoff, Algae Blooms, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Dead Zones, Ecology, Land Use, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Oceanography, Sea Level Rise, Stream Health, Water Quality, Water Treatment, Zooplankton, Plankton Ecology & Foodweb
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Algal and cyanobacteria blooms (drivers, mitigation); relationships between physics, chemistry, and plankton dynamics; land use, loads, and system responses
Dr. Elizabeth Shadwick
Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science |
Department : Physical Sciences |
Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : the inorganic carbon (CO2) system; distinguishing between natural and anthropogenic variability in coastal systems
Dr. Robert Shannon
Institution : Penn State University (PSU) |
Department : Environmental Resource Management |
Position : Assoc. Professor |
Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Biogeochemistry, Environmental Education, Land Use, Nutrient Pollution, Stream Health, Water Quality, Water Treatment, Environmental Education
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship |
Research interests : Ag BMP effectiveness, Water quality benefits of natural and constructed wetlands
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.)