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. Ken Staver

Institution : UMD College of Agriculture and Natural Resources | Department : Wye Research and Education Center | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Agricultural Runoff, Ecology, Nutrient Cycling, Water Quality, Ecohydrology, Agro-ecology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Nutrient flows in agroecosystems; watershed nutrient dynamics; rehabilitation of fine-grained Chesapeake Bay dredge material; watershed restoration; cover crops

Dr. Meredith Steele

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Land Use, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : My current research investigates the consequences of freshwater salinization and the land use dynamics of cities.

Dr. Deborah Steinberg

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Biological Sciences | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Ecology, Jellyfish, Oceanography, Zooplankton
Chesapeake Management Areas : Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Zooplankton ecology and physiology; coastal and deep-sea food webs; zooplankton influence on cycling of nutrients and organic matter; climate affects on zooplankton community structure; jellyfish

Dr. Corinne Stephens

Institution : Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay | Department : Businesses for the Bay | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Environmental Education, Invasive Species, Regional Restoration Project Design/Management, Stream Health, Water Quality, Wildlife Ecology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : researching the best ways to involve all partners, including businesses, in restoration. I also have experience determining risk factors for turtle road mortality.

Dr. Cathy Stephens

Institution : University of Maryland, College Park | Department : Engineering | Position : Research Coordinator | Expertise : Alternative Energy, Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Communications, Oceanography, Sea Level Rise
Chesapeake Management Areas : Environmental Literacy, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : global climate change and its overall affects on the environment from agriculture, to policy, to water resources to infrastructure

Dr. Kurt Stephenson

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Agricultural and Applied Economics | Expertise : Environmental Economics
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : Water quality trading, ag nonpoint source incentives, nutrient assimilation services

Dr. Ryan Stewart

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Crop and Soil Environmental Science | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Agricultural Runoff, Environmental Engineering, Nutrient Pollution, Sediment, Water Quality, Soil physics
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : pollutant fate and transport; predicting soil hydrological processes; understanding/modeling soil physical controls on nutrient movement and greenhouse gas emissions

Dr. Brian Strahm

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Forests, Land Use, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : impacts of global change (e.g., climate change, land use intensification and change) on carbon and nutrient pools and fluxes; soil science; subsurface fate and transport; plant-soil interactions

Dr. Kyle Strom

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Civil & Environmental Engineering | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Sediment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : We study the movement of water, sediment, and other substances in a broad range of aquatic environments (e.g., rivers, lakes, estuaries, and the ocean). A broad topic of interest for us within this theme is how the interaction between the flow and sediment forms and sculpts our waterways and landscapes. We study such processes at small spatial and temporal scales where turbulent motion and the interaction of individual sediment particles in the bed or water column influence the dynamics at play. We also study these processes at larger scales where drivers such as climate, man-made alterations to rivers, or the installation of infrastructure influence rivers and deltas over time scales of years to centuries. In all of our work, we are interested in understanding basic processes, developing new experimental methods, and creating quantitative tools for forward and backward modeling. Improving our understanding and ability to model natural systems aids responsible management of river and coastal resources, and helps to give a more accurate understanding of earth’s history and its future trajectory.

Dr. Joe Sullivan

Institution : University of Maryland | Department : Plant Science and Landscape Architecture | Expertise : Ecology, Forests
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Environmental Literacy, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : We study the response of plants and forests to climate change and other environmental stress factors in natural or urban ecosystems.

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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