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. Zachary Easton

Institution : Virginia Tech | Department : Biological Systems Engineering | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Agricultural Runoff, Air Quality, Biogeochemistry, Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Environmental Engineering, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : climate and nutrient cycling

Dr. Herschel Elliot

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Agricultural and Biological Engineering | Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Environmental Chemistry, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality, Water Treatment, Biosolids
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : Phosphorus Delivery from Application of Manures and Biosolids

Dr. Andrew Ellis

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Geography | Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding)
Chesapeake Management Areas : Climate Resiliency | Research interests : water supply sustainability; climate change; drought

Mr. Calvin Ernst

Institution : Ernst Conservation Seeds, Inc. | Department : Management | Position : President | Expertise : Establishing native vegetation & bioenergy crops; custom mixes for wetland mitigation, restoration and wildlife habitat and soil bioengineering materials
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality | Research interests : Successful grower of approximately 400 native species of seeds and plants for commercial utilization in wetland restoration, meadow establishment, bioretention and wildlife habitat

Dr. Gregory Evanylo

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences | Expertise : Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Trace Metals, Water Quality, Water Treatment, Byproduct management
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants | Research interests : Chemistry, availability, fate and transport of N, P, C, and heavy metals in land-applied by-products

Dr. Tal Ezer

Institution : Old Dominion University (ODU) | Department : Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences | Expertise : Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Oceanography, Sea Level Rise
Chesapeake Management Areas : Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Global and regional climate change, sea level rise and associated flooding

Dr. Mary Fabrizio

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Fisheries Science | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Fisheries
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats | Research interests : Habitat use and movement ecology of marine & estuarine fishes; recruitment dynamics of Chesapeake Bay fishes; fish population dynamics; invasive species ecology (particularly blue catfish)

Dr. Andrew Fellows

Institution : University of Maryland | Department : National Center for Smart Growth/College of Information Studies | Position : Community Outreach and Engagement Manager | Expertise : Chesapeake Bay Advocacy and Fund-Raising, Local Community Organization, Social Sciences, Stream Health, Water Quality, Local Government
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Stewardship | Research interests : Local Collaborative Engagement in Watershed Protection and Restoration

Dr. Paul Ferraro

Institution : Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | Department : Environmental Health and Engineering (EH&E) | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Forests, Social Sciences, Water Quality, Behavioral Science
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Stewardship | Research interests : Human behavior change; empirical evaluation (causal inference) of environmental program impacts on humans and the environment

Dr. Celso Ferreira

Institution : George Mason University | Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) | Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Environmental Education, Environmental Education
Chesapeake Management Areas : Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency, Fostering Diversity | Research interests : Flood hazards

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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