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. Meng Xia

Institution : University of Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES) | Department : Environmental Science | Position : Associate Professor | Expertise : Oceanography, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : Numerical Modeling of Estuarine and Coastal Ocean

Dr. Ming Xiao

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering | Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Sediment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Seepage and drainage in soils; Fundamental mechanisms and processes of surface and subsurface erosion, and erosion control and remediation measures including physical and biological measures; Particle transport and multi-phase flow and distribution in porous media; Microscopic soil and pore fluid behaviors under in-situ and physicochemically and biologically treated conditions.

Dr. Gene Yagow

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Biological Systems Engineering | Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Nutrient Pollution, Sediment, Stream Health, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : biological stressor analyses, statewide modeling of nonpoint source pollutants, development of sediment reduction endpoints

Dr. Ben Zaitchik

Institution : Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | Department : Earth and Planetary Sciences | Position : Associate Professor | Expertise : Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding)
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Climatic drivers of water quality variability in the Chesapeake Bay; trends in precipitation and temperature in the Chesapeake Bay watershed; remote sensing of estuary water properties and ecological processes

Dr. Marjorie Zeff

Institution : AECOM | Department : Environmental Services | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Sea Level Rise, Sediment, sedimetary geology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : sediment erosion, transport, deposition; sedimentary record

Dr. Qian Zhang

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Integration and Application Network (IAN) | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Statistics, Nutrient Pollution, Sediment, Water Quality, nutrients, modeling, watershed transport, hydrology, trend analysis
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : Trend analysis in watershed loadings of nutrients and sediments and exploration of factors influencing trends

Dr. Joseph Zhang

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Center for Coastal Resources Management (CCRM) | Expertise : Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Ecological Modeling, Forests, Oceanography, Sea Level Rise, Seagrass, Sediment, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : earth system modeling; model coupling; seamless large unstructured grid modeling; oil spill; natural hazards

Dr. Weixing Zhu

Institution : Binghamton University | Department : Biological Sciences | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : nitrogen biogeochemistry, urban ecology, stream and wetland restoration

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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