Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) |
Department : Biological Sciences |
Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Crabs, Ecology, Invasive Species, Marine Life, Sea Level Rise, Salt marsh, range expansion, invertebrates, snails, wetlands
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : effect of sea-level rise, eutrophication, and ocean warming on marshes
Institution : US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
Department : Office of Research and Development (ORD) |
Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Social Sciences, Water Quality, Decision making under uncertainty, climate change adaptation, urban resilience, indicators
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Resilience to climate change using quantitative and qualitative indicators and thresholds for urban areas and sectors, and ecosystems; design and performance of urban BMPs under climate change.
Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) |
Department : Geography and Virginia Water Resources Research Center |
Expertise : Environmental Education, Local Community Organization, Social Sciences, Coastal Hazards & Disasters
Chesapeake Management Areas : Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Water security in coastal communities; reconstruction of water and sanitation systems; coastal disaster mitigation
Institution : District of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment |
Department : Natural Resources |
Position : Deputy Director |
Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Biogeochemistry, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants |
Research interests : Resolving sources, history, and fate of nitrogen in groundwater and streams; application of environmental tracers and isotopes to determine transport times and reaction rates of dissolved constituents; environmental isotope forensics; water quality effects of agriculture and wastewater disposal in different climatic and hydrogeologic settings.
Institution : Penn State University (PSU) |
Department : Ecosystem Science and Management |
Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Agricultural Runoff, Biogeochemistry, Ecology, Forests, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality |
Research interests : cover crop impacts on nitrogen cycling; greenhouse gas emissions from soils; nitrogen transport from soils to streams; critical zone science
Institution : Towson University (TU) |
Department : Geography and Environmental Planning |
Expertise : Local Community Organization, Social Sciences, Water Quality, public environmental knowledge
Research interests : analysis of environmental social movement organizations' public education and communications programs
Institution : US Geological Survey (USGS) |
Department : MD Water Science Center |
Expertise : Ecology, water quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality |
Research interests : analysis of changes in land use and nutrient inputs and sources; agricultural BMP implementation
Institution : Penn State University (PSU) |
Department : Geosciences |
Position : Professor of Geosciences |
Expertise : Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Ecological Modeling, Environmental Economics, Environmental Statistics, Sea Level Rise, Social Sciences, Socioeconomic Modeling, Decision Analysis
Chesapeake Management Areas : Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : My research addresses two interrelated questions. First, how can we mechanistically understand past and potentially predict future changes in the Earth system? Second, how can we use this information to design sustainable, scientifically sound, technologically feasible, economically efficient, and ethically defensible risk management strategies? I analyze these questions by mission-oriented basic research covering a wide range of disciplines such as Earth system science, economics, engineering, philosophy, decision science, and statistics.
Institution : Penn State University (PSU) |
Department : Plant and Soil Sciences |
Position : Associate Professor |
Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Alternative Energy, Biogeochemistry, Computer Science, Nutrient Cycling
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Modeling of agricultural performance and nutrient flows in fields, watersheds and regions; bioenergy; greenhouse gas emissions in energy crops and organic systems; international agriculture; soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling; adaptation to abiotic stress; integrated modeling.
Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) |
Department : Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) |
Expertise : Communications, Environmental Economics, Nutrient Pollution, Social Sciences, Socioeconomic Modeling, Stream Health, Water Quality, indicators, decision science, decision support tools and processes, science policy, climate adaptation and mitigation
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Dr. Kenney conducts multi-disciplinary social science research at the intersection of the environment, technology, and society. Strategies and decisions made at this nexus often encounter significant uncertainty about scientific evidence and involve stakeholders with conflicting objectives and values. The goal is to understand and improve the processes and tools that aid these decisions, both in the public and private sectors.
