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. Jackie Takacs

Institution : University of Maryland | Department : Maryland Sea Grant (MDSG) | Expertise : Environmental Education, Land Use, Nutrient Pollution, Oysters, Regional Restoration Project Design/Management, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship | Research interests : Watershed restoration and stewardship activities

Dr. Lauren Taneyhill

Institution : NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) | Department : NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO) | Expertise : Local Community Organization, Partnership Building Coordination and Evaluation, Environmental Policy, Outreach, Envision the Choptank
Chesapeake Management Areas : Stewardship |

Dr. Peter Tango

Institution : US Geological Survey (USGS) | Department : Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) | Expertise : Algae Blooms, Dead Zones, Ecology, Water Quality, Wildlife Ecology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Water quality dynamics and ecosystem recovery; status and trends, factors affecting status and trends.

Ms. Rachel Taylor

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Agricultural and Biological Engineering | Position : PhD student | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Agricultural Runoff, Biogeochemistry, Environmental Engineering, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality, Water Treatment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : Using different models and electronic tools to understand fate and transport of both nutrients and emerging contaminants

Dr. Jeremy Testa

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Dead Zones, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Oceanography, Seagrass, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Coastal marine ecology, including eutrophication, nutrient cycling, and dissolved oxygen dynamics. We are especially interested in the interactions between biological, chemical, and physical processes in coastal ecosystems. We use a combination of experimental efforts, historical data analysis, and coupled biogeochemical-hydrodynamic modeling studies to examine these aspects of estuarine and coastal aquatic science.

Dr. Jessie Thomas-Blate

Institution : American Rivers | Department : Ecosystem Restoration | Expertise : Chesapeake Bay Advocacy and Fund-Raising, Ecology, Fisheries, Regional Restoration Project Design/Management, Wildlife Ecology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats | Research interests : River restoration monitoring, especially dam removal

Dr. Wade Thomason

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Crop and Soil Environmental Science (CSES) | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Nutrient Cycling, Sediment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : agricultural best management

Dr. Theresa (Tess) Thompson

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Biological Systems Engineering | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Agricultural Runoff, Environmental Engineering, Nutrient Pollution, Sediment, Stream Health, Water Quality, stream restoration
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : stream and wetland restoration design; management of urban streams; streambank erosion rate measurement and prediction; interaction between riparian and wetland vegetation and water movement; wetland water budgets; stormwater management

Dr. Renee Thompson

Institution : US Geological Survey (USGS) | Department : Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO), Environment and Natural Resources, Geography | Expertise : Land Use, GIS, Healthy Watersheds
Chesapeake Management Areas : Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation | Research interests : Mapping and modeling land use change in the Chesapeake bay, maintains datasets related to protected lands and federal lands, research related to infill and redevelopment, mapping and modeling healthy watersheds and vulnerability.

Dr. Alba Torrents

Institution : University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) | Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) | Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Education, Environmental Engineering, Water Quality, Environmental Education, Persistent Organic Pollutants
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants | Research interests : Fate of POPs in natural and engineered environments

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)