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).

Ms. Jennifer Fetter

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Penn State Extension | Position : Water Resources Educator | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Environmental Education, Land Use, Stream Health, Water Quality, Environmental Education, Urban Stormwater Management, Private Drinking Water Supplies
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship | Research interests : Communication of water resource issues (stormwater management, agricultural water resource issues, safe drinking water) to stakeholders including general public, youth audiences, municipal governments, and others.

Dr. Alix Fink

Institution : Longwood University | Department : Biological Sciences | Position : Professor of Biology (and Dean of the Honors College) | Expertise : Ecology, Environmental Education, Forests, Wildlife Ecology, Environmental Education
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Healthy Watersheds, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship | Research interests : Educational strategies for engaging students in complex stewardship issues (e.g., Chesapeake Bay watershed, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem); habitat specific demography and connections to regional population dynamics; habitat selection, resource availability, and reproductive success of birds and bats

Dr. Jordan Fischbach

Institution : RAND Corporation | Department : Water Resources | Position : Co-Director, Water and Climate Resilience Center | Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Land Use, Socioeconomic Modeling, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Integrated watershed analysis and planning; decision making under deep uncertainty for water quality and flooding decisions; urban stormwater flooding; quantitative scenario analysis

Dr. Matthew Fitzpatrick

Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) | Department : Appalachian Laboratory (AL) | Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Environmental Statistics, Forests, Genomics/Genetics, Invasive Species, Land Use
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Spatial modeling of species responses to global change, including the spread of invasive species

Dr. Mark Ford

Institution : US Geological Survey (USGS) | Department : Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit | Expertise : Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Ecology, Forests, Land Use, Wildlife Ecology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Land Conservation, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : Forest successional dynamics/management and wildlife. Emphasis on bats, T&E species, and white-tailed deer. Secondary interests in ecological restoration/fire.

Dr. Lara Fowler

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Law/Institutes of Energy and the Environment | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Communications, Land Use, Local Community Organization, Social Sciences, Stream Health, Water Quality, law & policy
Chesapeake Management Areas : Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : law and policy associated with water, energy, agriculture; stakeholder engagement and community outreach, including effective community.

Dr. Carl Friedrichs

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Physical Sciences | Position : Professor | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Dead Zones, Sediment, Water Quality, Water Clarity
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : Controls of and trends in water clarity and water quality

Dr. Marjorie Friedrichs

Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) | Department : Biological Sciences | Expertise : Algae Blooms, Biogeochemistry, Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Computer Science, Dead Zones, Ecological Modeling, Nutrient Cycling, Oceanography, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Climate Resiliency | Research interests : My interdisciplinary research program focuses on quantifying the historical and future impacts of climate and land-use changes, as well as population growth, urbanization, and local management efforts, on water quality and biogeochemistry in coastal and estuarine systems. Research in my BioCOM lab focuses specifically on combining mathematical computer models with biological, physical and chemical observations.

Dr. Heather Gall

Institution : Penn State University (PSU) | Department : Agricultural and Biological Engineering | Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Agricultural Runoff, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality, Water Treatment, emerging contaminants
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds | Research interests : environmental fate, transport, and impacts of emerging contaminants

Dr. Daniel Gallagher

Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) | Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering | Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecological Modeling, Environmental Statistics, Water Quality, Water Treatment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality | Research interests : risk assessment, ground water - surface water interactions

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)