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. Susan Day

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation | Expertise : Ecology, Forests, Land Use, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : urban forests, urban forest soils, stormwater management

Dr. Jeseth Delgado Vela

Institution : Howard University | Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering | Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Microbiology, Methane Cycling, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality, Water Treatment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : Nitrogen management and microbial metabolism

Dr. Olivia Devereux

Institution : Devereux Environmental Consulting, Inc. | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Agricultural Runoff, Chesapeake Bay Advocacy and Fund-Raising, Communications, Computer Science, Environmental Economics, Environmental Statistics, Land Use, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Regional Restoration Project Design/Management, Sediment, Stream Health, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Stewardship | Research interests : Water quality improvement, impact of agricultural practices on watersheds, benefit cost analysis of BMPs.

Dr. Jennifer Dindinger

Institution : University of Maryland, College Park | Department : Maryland Sea Grant (MDSG) | Expertise : Regional Restoration Project Design/Management, Water Quality, behavior change, community engagement, strategic planning, facilitation, education
Chesapeake Management Areas : Healthy Watersheds, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : social science techniques for lasting behavior change; facilitation and strategic planning for organizational sustainability

Dr. Fred Dobbs

Institution : Old Dominion University (ODU) | Department : Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences | Expertise : Environmental Microbiology, Marine Microbiology, ships' ballast water
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : marine microbial ecology; microbiology of ships’ ballast tanks; disease ecology; bioelectrics; symbioses between invertebrates and microorganisms

Dr. Andrew Dolloff

Institution : US Forest Service Southern Research Station, Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Forest Watershed Science | Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Ecology, Fisheries, Forests, Invasive Species, Sediment, Stream Health, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation | Research interests : riparian and instream habitat ecology, coldwater fish ecology and management, catadromous fish (American eels), fish passage, forestry BMPs, climate change, habitat inventory, monitoring, and evaluation, long term habitat and aquatic fauna monitoring

Dr. Caroline Donovan

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Integration and Application Network | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Communications, Ecology, Graphic Arts, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship | Research interests : ecosystem health report cards and assessment; effectively communicating science through print and digital media

Dr. Pang Du

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Statistics | Position : Associate Professor | Expertise : Environmental Statistics, Statistics for data with detection limits and nonlinear data
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Water Quality | Research interests : Statistical analysis for data displaying nonlinear trends or data with detection limits

Dr. Jon Duncan

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Ecosystem Science and Management | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Forests, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality, hydrology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency, Fostering Diversity | Research interests : watershed hydrology, watershed loading of nutrients, agricultural and urban BMPs

Dr. Randy Dymond

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Environmental Education, Environmental Engineering, Land Use, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : urban hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, watershed master planning, BMP efficiency and uncertainty, GIS modeling of illicit discharge potential and erosion potential

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)