Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) |
Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Expertise : Land Use, Stream Health, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds |
Research interests : Effectiveness of urban stormwater BMPs and associated uncertainty, urban watershed master planning, local effects of offsite nutrient trading programs
Institution : US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
Department : Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) |
Expertise : Environmental Chemistry, Water Quality, Toxic contaminants
Chesapeake Management Areas : Toxic Contaminants |
Research interests : Leadership and strategic social responsibility
Institution : University of Maryland Eastern Shore |
Department : Agriculture Food & Resource Sciences |
Position : Professsor/ Director-Chesapeake Water Quality Center |
Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Agricultural Runoff, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds |
Research interests : Developing strategies and technologies that keep nutrients to entering watersheds.
Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) |
Department : Aquaculture Genetics and Breeding Technology Center |
Expertise : Genomics/Genetics, Oysters, Aquaculture
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries |
Research interests : oyster breeding for aquaculture
Institution : Old Dominion University (ODU) |
Department : Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences |
Expertise : Alternative Energy, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Oceanography, Sea Level Rise
Chesapeake Management Areas : Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : better ocean observing and sea level trend analysis
Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) |
Department : Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation |
Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Forests, Sediment, Water Quality, Forestry BMPs
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Stewardship |
Research interests : Forestry BMPs; Streamside Management Zones; Forest Operations
Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) |
Department : Crop and Soil Environmental Science |
Expertise : Environmental Microbiology, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality, Microbiome
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Healthy Watersheds |
Research interests : The role of microorganisms in maintaining water quality, both as fecal indicators and contaminants, but also as facilitators of nutrient cycling and removal.
Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) |
Department : Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) |
Expertise : Ecology, Marine Life, Wildlife Ecology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Stewardship |
Research interests : Dolphins in the Chesapeake Bay
Institution : Chesapeake Research Consortium |
Expertise : environmental engineering, water quality, water treatment, environmental education, contaminant fate and transport, nutrient pollution, mass transfer, diffusion
Chesapeake Management Areas : Protect & Restore Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Maintain Healthy Watersheds |
Research interests : trend analysis in watershed loadings of nutrients and sediments; environmental fate and effects of carbon nanotubes; travel time distributions in riverine and estuarine water catchments
Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) |
Department : Fish and Invertebrate Ecology Laboratory |
Position : Postdoctoral Fellow |
Expertise : Ecology, Fisheries, Marine Life, Sharks
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries |
Research interests : Movement ecology of elasmobranchs in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Bight; Estuarine habitat use by coastal sharks; Interactions between elasmobranchs and fisheries
