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. Damian Brady

Institution : University of Maine | Department : School of Marine Sciences | Position : Assistant Professor | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Dead Zones, Ecological Modeling, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Statistics, Fisheries, Marine Life, Nutrient Pollution, Oceanography, Oysters, Sediment, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Water Quality | Research interests : Trend analysis of tidal nutrient concentrations; Phenology of estuarine biogeochemistry

Dr. Paul Brewer

Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) | Department : Biogeochemistry | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Environmental Microbiology, Methane Cycling, Nutrient Cycling
Chesapeake Management Areas : Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Methane cycling (tree emissions, wetland and upland soils), agricultural impacts on greenhouse gases, nutrient cycling and carbon storage.

Dr. Deborah Bronk

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Physical Sciences | Expertise : Algae Blooms, Biogeochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Microbiology, Marine Microbiology, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Oceanography
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Environmental Literacy | Research interests : Nitrogen cycling in marine and aquatic systems, polar oceanography, waste water treatment, nitrogen photochemistry

Dr. Kelsey Brooks

Institution : University of Maryland Extension | Department : Environment and Natural Resources | Expertise : Environmental Education, Water Quality, Stormwater BMPs, MS4 Regulations
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Stewardship | Research interests : Efficacy of stormwater BMPs in urban environments

Dr. Bryan Brown

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Biological Sciences | Expertise : Ecology, Environmental Statistics, Invasive Species, Stream Health
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : community ecology of aquatic systems. Topics include community assembly, invasion biology, symbiotic interactions.

Dr. Grace Brush

Institution : Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | Department : Environmental Health and Engineering | Expertise : Ecology, Forests, Invasive Species, Land Use, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Sediment, Paleoecology, paleobotany, palynology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Land Conservation | Research interests : history of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem based on sediment cores

Dr. Katherine Bunting-Howarth

Institution : Cornell University | Department : New York Sea Grant | Expertise : Local Community Organization, Nutrient Pollution, Social Sciences, Water Quality, watershed management, coastal management
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Better understand how local government, communities and individuals make decisions that impact our watersheds and coastal waters as well as their needs for planning for climate resiliency, especially in areas vulnerable to extreme weather and sea level rise.

Dr. David Burdige

Institution : Old Dominion University (ODU) | Department : Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Methane Cycling, Nutrient Cycling, Oceanography, Seagrass, Sediment, Trace Metals
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Environmental Literacy | Research interests : sediment-seagrass interactions and blue carbon burial

Dr. Bill Burgos

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Microbiology, Sediment, Toxicology, Trace Metals, Water Quality, Water Treatment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : Bioremediation of soil, sediment and groundwater; Biological metal oxidation in coal mine drainage; Biological iron (III) reduction; Biological uranium (VI) reduction; Environmental impacts of shale gas development

Dr. Elizabeth Canuel

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS) | Department : Physical Sciences | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Water Quality, Carbon Cycle
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Influence of human activities and climate on sources and cycling of organic carbon

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)