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. Christina Simkanin

Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) | Department : Marine Invasions Laboratory | Expertise : Ecology, Invasive Species, Marine Life
Research interests : species distribution modeling to examine how invasive species are spreading in a warming and changing climate.

Dr. John Sivey

Institution : Towson University | Department : Chemistry | Expertise : Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Water Treatment, Analytical Chemistry
Chesapeake Management Areas : Toxic Contaminants, Environmental Literacy | Research interests : Fate of agrochemicals and related organic compounds in environmental systems; water disinfection; chlorination and bromination chemistry; disinfection by-products; aquatic chemical kinetics; reaction mechanisms

Dr. Jared Smith

Institution : University of Virginia (UVA) | Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering | Expertise : Alternative Energy, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Statistics
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : My research interests include spatial statistical data analysis and mathematical modeling of environmental and energy systems. Past research has addressed spatial outlier detection, geostatistical uncertainty analysis, and multiobjective risk analysis applied to geothermal energy systems development in the Appalachian Basin. Current research interests include spatial analysis of water quality risks in watersheds, and multiobjective management of water systems, with particular interest in optimizing policies to meet water quality objectives.

Mr. Brian Smith

Institution : Maryland Department of Natural Resources | Department : Resource Assessment Service - Tidewater Ecosystem Assessment | Expertise : Algae Blooms, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Environmental Education, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality, Environmental Education
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : Water quality monitoring and habitat assessments of shallow and open waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Particular emphasis on autonomous monitoring (e.g., continuous monitoring) for characterizing the health of shallow water habitats. Shallow water monitoring data also used to assess Chesapeake Bay water quality criteria for dissolved oxygen, water clarity, and chlorophyll in shallow water habitats, determine attainment or non-attainment of shallow water habitats for their designated uses, assess SAV habitats and identify potential SAV restoration sites, provide information to better understand ecosystem processes and the impact of extreme events (e.g. hurricanes, high flows, sanitary sewer overflows) in shallow water environments, provide data for calibrating the Bay Eutrophication and Watershed Model, and to track progress of habitat restoration and environmental mitigation efforts.

Dr. Bongkeun Song

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Biological Sciences | Expertise : Algae Blooms, Biogeochemistry, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Dead Zones, Ecology, Environmental Microbiology, Genomics/Genetics, Marine Microbiology, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Oysters, Sea Level Rise, Seagrass, Sediment, Water Quality, Water Treatment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : HAB impacts on carbon and nitrogen cycles; importance of microbiomes on oyster function and health; metagenomics and bioinformatics; microplastic detection and quantification; novel microbial processes in subterranean estuary; diversity of denitrifying microbes (archaea, bacteria and fungi) in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; microbial community responses on N2O emission; nitrogen removal in groundwater; anaerobic ammonium oxidation and denitrification

Ms. Suzanne Spitzer

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Marine Estuarine Environmental Science | Expertise : Local Community Organization, Water Quality, Environmental Anthropology, Science Communication
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Public Access, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship | Research interests : Citizen science in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, water quality monitoring programs, science communication and engagement, cultural models of the environment

Dr. Shannon Sprague

Institution : NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) | Department : Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) | Expertise : Environmental Education, Environmental Education
Chesapeake Management Areas : Public Access, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Fostering Diversity | Research interests : systemic implementation of environmental literacy in school districts

Dr. Pierre St-Laurent

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Biological Sciences | Expertise : Ecological Modeling, Oceanography
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : Atmospheric nitrogen deposition over the Bay's tidal water

Dr. Darius Stanton

Institution : Chesapeake Research Consortium (CRC), US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) | Department : Biological Sciences, Ecosystem Restoration, Environment and Natural Resources, Environmental Science, Forestry, Natural Resources, Water Resources | Expertise : Alternative Energy, Ecology, Environmental Education, Environmental Education, Community Based Environmental Management
Chesapeake Management Areas : Public Access, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency, Fostering Diversity | Research interests : Green infrastructure policy, international sustainable development, urban planning design, sustainable urban agriculture, renewable energy resources

Dr. Nina Stark

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering | Expertise : Alternative Energy, Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Oceanography, Sediment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : subaquatic geotechnics; coastal geotechnics; subaquatic sediment transport processes; scour; ocean and offshore renewable energy

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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