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. Lee Blaney

Institution : University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Department : Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering | Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Oysters, Water Quality, Water Treatment, Contaminants of emerging concern
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants | Research interests : Occurrence, fate, and toxicity of contaminants of emerging concern in water, sediment, and biota (e.g., crayfish, mussels, and oysters); nutrient recovery from municipal wastewater and agricultural waste

Mr. Steve Bloser

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Engineering | Position : Director: Center for Dirt and Gravel Roads | Expertise : Environmental Education, Sediment, Stream Health, Water Quality, Environmental Education
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation | Research interests : Sediment pollution and increased landscape to stream connectivity from public roads in Pennsylvania

Dr. John Karl Bohlke

Institution : US Geological Survey (USGS) | Department : Water Resources | Position : Research Hydrologist, Scientist Emeritus | Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Biogeochemistry, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants | Research interests : Resolving sources, history, and fate of nitrogen in groundwater and streams; application of environmental tracers and isotopes to determine transport times and reaction rates of dissolved constituents; environmental isotope forensics; water quality effects of agriculture and wastewater disposal in different climatic and hydrogeologic settings.

Dr. Kathy Boomer

Institution : The Nature Conservancy | Department : Chesapeake Bay Restoration Project | Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Biogeochemistry, Computer Science, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Environmental Statistics, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Sediment, Stream Health, Water Quality, Wetlands
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Current efforts include watershed modeling to target bmp's and estimate cumulative benefits of bmp implementation; also to assess natural filter (created, restored, natural wetland) functions

Dr. Darrell Bosch

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Agricultural and Applied Economics | Expertise : Social Sciences, Socioeconomic Modeling
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Costs of meeting water quality goals; barriers and incentives for adoption of conservation practices to protect water quality.

Dr. Joel Bostic

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences (UMCES) | Department : Appalachian Laboratory (AL) | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Nutrient Cycling, Water Quality, Isotope Biogeochemistry
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : Watershed nitrogen export during storm events; source identification of nitrate in stream waters using isotopes; quantification of atmospheric nitrate in stream waters

Dr. Charles Bott

Institution : Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD), Virginia Tech (VT), Old Dominion University (ODU) | Department : Operations/Research/Water Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering | Position : Director of Water Technology and Research, Adjunct Professor | Expertise : Alternative Energy, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Microbiology, Methane Cycling, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Sea Level Rise, Water Quality, Water Treatment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : water and wastewater treatment, water quality, nutrient removal technology

Dr. Edward Bouwer

Institution : Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | Department : Environmental Health and Engineering | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Education, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Microbiology, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Sediment, Trace Metals, Water Quality, Water Treatment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants | Research interests : Dr. Bouwer’s research interests encompasses factors that influence biotransformation of contaminants, bioremediation for control of contaminated soils and groundwaters, biofilm kinetics, biological processes design in wastewater, industrial, and drinking water treatment, anaerobic digestions of wastes to recover energy as methane, algal biofuels, transport and fate of microorganisms in porous media, behavior of metals in contaminated sediments, and defining and managing environmental risks.

Dr. Elizabeth Boyer

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Biogeochemistry, Water Resources | Expertise : Air Quality, Algae Blooms, Biogeochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Education, Environmental Statistics, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Trace Metals, Water Quality, Environmental Education, Hydrology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Environmental Literacy | Research interests : Status and trends of water quality; drivers of nutrient pollution; nitrogen budgets; phosphorous budgets; SPARROW modeling; invasive species; coastal loadings.

Dr. Walter Boynton

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Chesapeake Biological Laboratory | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Dead Zones, Ecology, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Seagrass, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Land Conservation | Research interests : sources, effects and fate of nutrients; sediment biogeochemistry

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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