Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) |
Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Invasive Species, Marine Life, Benthic Ecology, Taxonomy
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality |
Research interests : Polychaeta Taxonomy, Invasion ecology, marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. My research is focused on benthic community analysis, the spatio-temporal variability of the macrozoobenthic assemblages and their relationship with abiotic variables.
Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) |
Department : Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) |
Expertise : Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Oceanography, Sea Level Rise
Chesapeake Management Areas : Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Dynamics of Earth's climate over the last 1000 years, seawater chemistry of coral reefs
Institution : Morgan State University |
Department : Architecture + Urban Design |
Position : Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design |
Expertise : Chesapeake Bay Advocacy and Fund-Raising, Environmental Education, Local Community Organization, Sea Level Rise, Runoff Mitigation Strategist
Chesapeake Management Areas : Land Conservation, Public Access, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship |
Research interests : Increasing public access and community custodianship of waterways; developing urban design interventions to conserve land and mitigate runoff through collection/absorption of rain water in place.
Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) |
Department : Physical Sciences |
Expertise : Ecology, Forests, Sea Level Rise, Sediment, Salt marshes
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Coastal geomorphology, ecology, and carbon cycling with a focus on how marshes and forests respond to sea level rise.
Institution : University of Maryland |
Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (flooding), Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Communications, Environmental Engineering, Disaster Resilience
Chesapeake Management Areas : Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Coastal resilience and flood mitigation projects and policy
Institution : Morgan State University |
Department : Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory (PEARL) |
Expertise : Environmental Economics, Fisheries, Oysters, Social Sciences, Socioeconomic Modeling
Chesapeake Management Areas : outdoor recreation demand modeling, non-market valuation; economics of environmental restoration; survey development and methodology |
Research interests : outdoor recreation demand modeling, non-market valuation; economics of environmental restoration; survey development and methodology
Institution : Johns Hopkins University (JHU) |
Department : Mechanical Engineering |
Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Air Quality, Algae Blooms, Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Computer Science, Dead Zones, Land Use, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Pollution, Sediment, Water Quality, robotics, sampling with underwater robotic vehicles
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants |
Research interests : adaptive sampling and pollution assessment with aerial and underwater robotic vehicles; multi-sensor data fusion, modeling, and forecasting; nutrient loading, sediment, grass, dead zones; computer science algorithms and software environmental assessment using machine learning
Institution : Partnership for the Delaware Estuary |
Department : Science |
Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Marine Life, Oysters, Regional Restoration Project Design/Management, Sea Level Rise, Wetland Ecology, Shellfish
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : - Coastal wetland ecology, monitoring and restoration
- Ecosystem services provided by shellfish and wetlands
- Physiological ecology of freshwater and marine bivalves
- Effects of shellfish beds on aquatic food webs, energy and nutrient cycling, and water quality
- Restoration of shellfish for ecosystem services
- Living shorelines for enhancement of coastal wetlands and ecosystem services
- Strategic planning for regional restoration and climate adaptation
Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) |
Department : Ecosystem Conservation |
Expertise : Ecology, Environmental Microbiology, Invasive Species, Nutrient Pollution
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : (1) mutualisms and invasion; (2) mutualisms and biodiversity-ecosystem function; (3) trophic interactions structuring plant communities; (4) plant communities and functional traits; (5) building consensus through data synthesis.
Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) |
Department : Fisheries |
Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Environmental Statistics, Fisheries, Marine Life, Rockfish
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Quantitative fisheries ecology; population dynamics, stock assessment, fisheries ecosystem modeling
