Institution : Maryland Department of Natural Resources (MD DNR) |
Department : Natural Resources |
Expertise : Invasive Species, Regional Restoration Project Design/Management, Seagrass
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Anthropogenic impacts on underwater grasses/seagrasses distribution, abundance and restoration
Institution : Johns Hopkins University (JHU) |
Department : Earth and Plenary Sciences (EPS) |
Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Dead Zones, Sediment, Water Quality, Sulfur Cycling
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency, Fostering Diversity |
Research interests : The role of sulfur cycling in regulating nutrient levels and oxygen availability in the water column. How gradients in oxygen availability and organic matter composition affect carbon and sulfur burial. How environmental conditions are recorded in the sedimentary record. The role of density stratification in driving bottom water anoxia/euxinia.
Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) |
Department : Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) |
Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants |
Research interests : Molecular Composition of Dissolved Organic Matter; Disinfection by-products
Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) |
Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) |
Expertise : Ecological Modeling, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Statistics, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Stream Health, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Fostering Diversity |
Research interests : The conjoint influence of stream physics and ecology on nitrate uptake in streambed sediments; identification and quantification of point and non-point sources of sodium in the Occoquan Reservoir in the the Northern Virginia region of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed; Leading multi-disciplinary National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC) bid focused on developing "clinical guidelines" for restoring balance to nutrient cycles, along the lines of clinical guidelines developed for patient care in personalized medicine.
Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences (UMCES) |
Department : Horn Point Laboratory (HPL) |
Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Fisheries, Oysters
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Ecosystem services generated by oysters and other marine invertebrates; environmental impacts on physiological rate functions of marine animals.
Institution : U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service |
Department : Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) |
Position : Chesapeake Coordinator |
Expertise : Regional Restoration Project Design/Management, Stream Health, Wildlife Ecology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation |
Research interests : Wetland restoration
Institution : Towson University |
Department : Biological Sciences |
Expertise : Ecology, Nutrient Pollution, Stream Health, bio-indicators of stream water quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds |
Research interests : Attached algal biomass and species diversity of Chironomidae as indicators of eutrophication and urbanization impacts.
Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) |
Department : Appalachian Laboratory (AL) |
Expertise : Forests, Genomics/Genetics
Chesapeake Management Areas : Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Evolutionary responses of trees to environmental change, and implications for management. Additional interests include conservation genetics of wildlife and plants, and the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) to address questions in ecology and management.
Institution : US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) |
Department : Office of Research and Development (ORD) |
Position : Research Ecologist |
Expertise : Algae Blooms, Biogeochemistry, Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Statistics, Genomics/Genetics, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Seagrass, Water Quality, Clean Water Act Programs
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Stewardship |
Research interests : My research has focused on approaches for relating water quality characteristics, especially nutrients, chlorophyll-a, and dissolved oxygen with aquatic life use attainment. My research is interdisciplinary and trans-scientific, meaning that I work at the interface of science and policy, and at times also law, and social and political preference.
Institution : Towson University |
Department : Biological Sciences |
Expertise : Environmental Education
Chesapeake Management Areas : Environmental Literacy, Stewardship |
Research interests : effects of environmental education on student achievement; environmental education PD for K-12 teachers
