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. Paul Capel

Institution : US Geological Survey (USGS) | Department : Water Resources | Position : Research Hydrologist | Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Biogeochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Nutrient Cycling, Water Quality, Pesticides
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants | Research interests : decadal-scale forecasting of export or total nitrogen from the watershed to the Bay, contribution of nitrate from groundwater to streams, base flow, fate and transport of pesticides

Dr. Ryan Carnegie

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS) | Department : Aquatic Health Sciences | Expertise : Algae Blooms, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Fisheries, Genomics/Genetics, Invasive Species, Marine Life, Oysters, disease, aquaculture, restoration, marine resource management
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : shellfish health; evolutionary ecology of marine diseases; fishery and aquaculture health management; parasite phylogenetics and phylogeography

Ms. Alison Cawood

Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) | Department : Environmental Science, Science Communication | Position : Citizen Science Coordinator | Expertise : Communications, Environmental Education, Jellyfish, Environmental Education, citizen science
Chesapeake Management Areas : Environmental Literacy, Stewardship | Research interests : community engagement in science, stakeholder engagement, STEM attitudes and learning

Mr. Eric Chase

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) | Position : Researcher | Expertise : Forests, Sediment, Stream Health, Hydrology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : Unpaved Rural roads as a source of sediment pollution and dust

Dr. J. Sook Chung

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology | Expertise : Crabs, Genomics/Genetics
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries | Research interests : regulatory mechanism of growth and reproduction of crabs

Dr. Sophie Clayton

Institution : Old Dominion University (ODU) | Department : Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences (OEAS) | Expertise : Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Oceanography
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality | Research interests : Observing and modeling the impact of physical ocean and estuarine processes (e.g. transport and mixing) on the distribution of planktonic organisms, and dissolved and particulate properties and contaminants.

Dr. Allison Colden

Institution : Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) | Expertise : Chesapeake Bay Advocacy and Fund-Raising, Crabs, Ecology, Environmental Education, Fisheries, Invasive Species, Marine Life, Oysters, Rockfish, Seagrass, Environmental Education
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Stewardship | Research interests : biophysical feedback of restored oyster reefs; ecosystem benefits of oyster restoration; ecosystem based fisheries management; habitat suitability modeling

Dr. Andrew Cole

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Landscape Architecture | Position : Associate Professor | Expertise : Ecology, Wildlife Ecology, wetlands
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship | Research interests : Ecology of headwater wetlands; functional assessment

Ms. Amy Collick

Institution : University of Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES) | Department : Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences | Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Ecological Modeling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Nutrient transport and watershed modeling; water quality monitoring; watershed modeling; Soil health initiatives for research and education

Dr. Sean Cornell

Institution : Shippensburg University | Department : Appalachian Laboratory (AL), Geography and Earth Sciences | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Environmental Education, Nutrient Pollution, Oceanography, Oysters, Sea Level Rise, Seagrass, Sediment, Water Quality, Environmental Education, Coastal Resiliency
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Ghost forest development on barrier islands, impacts of barrier island beach replenishment, sea-level rise monitoring, invasive species, coastal resources management, coastal 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.)

Expertise (CBED)