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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 choose your search category (Expertise, First Name, Last Name, etc) from the drop-down list, enter your keyword in the text box, and the click search.
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.
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Dr. Patrick Neale
Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) |
Expertise : Algae Blooms, Biogeochemistry, Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Environmental Microbiology, Oceanography
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality |
Research interests : Photobiology, Photochemistry, UV Effects on Aquatic Ecosystems, Phytoplankton Productivity
Dr. David Nelson
Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) |
Department : Appalachian Laboratory (AL) |
Expertise : Air Quality, Alternative Energy, Biogeochemistry, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Microbiology, Forests, Nutrient Cycling, Water Quality, Wildlife Ecology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Stable isotope ecology and biogeochemistry; effects of renewable energy on wildlife, including migration; paleoecology and paleoclimatology; using isotopes to identify source of pollutants in water and air; watershed biogeochemistry
Dr. Jay Nelson
Institution : Towson University |
Department : Biological Sciences |
Expertise : Dead Zones, Fisheries, Rockfish, fish physiology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries |
Research interests : Intraspecific variation in hypoxia tolerance in striped bass
Dr. Genevieve Nesslage
Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) |
Department : Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) |
Expertise : Fisheries, Invasive Species, Wildlife Ecology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats |
Research interests : population dynamics of fish, wildlife, and invasive species
Dr. Steve Newbold
Institution : US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
Department : Office of Policy / National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) |
Expertise : Ecological Modeling, Environmental Economics, Social Sciences, Socioeconomic Modeling
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Water Quality, Public Access |
Research interests : Integrating ecological models and non-market valuation methods to examine the benefits and costs of water quality improvements in the Chesapeake Bay
Dr. David Newburn
Institution : University of Maryland |
Department : Agricultural and Resource Economics |
Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Environmental Economics, Land Use, Nutrient Pollution, Socioeconomic Modeling, Water Quality, Nutrient trading
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation |
Research interests : economics of agricultural and stormwater BMPs; nutrient trading; land-use change modeling; land conservation; land-use policy analysis
Dr. Jennifer Nyland
Institution : Salisbury University |
Department : Biological Sciences |
Expertise : Toxicology, immunology, immunotoxicology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants |
Research interests : immunotoxic effects of environmental contaminants including mercury and arsenic
Dr. Judith O'Neil
Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) |
Department : Horn Point Laboratory (HPL) |
Expertise : Algae Blooms, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Environmental Education, Environmental Microbiology, Marine Microbiology, Nutrient Cycling, Oceanography, Seagrass, Zooplankton, Phytoplankton
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Environmental Literacy |
Research interests : Plankton nutrient and trophodynamics associated with bloom formation; harmful algal bloom proliferation and toxins; impacts of eutrophication and climate change on algal blooms; Environmental Education including, Maryland Environmental Literacy Partnership, and Curriculum + Community Enterprise for Restoration Science (using ecological restoration science for education and citizen science- 'Billion Oyster Project'- NYC).
Dr. Matthew Ogburn
Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) |
Department : Fish and Invertebrate Ecology Lab |
Position : Ecologist |
Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Crabs, Ecology, Fisheries, Invasive Species, Marine Life, Oysters, Zooplankton, Animal Migrations, River Herring, Acoustic Telemetry, Long-term Data
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Healthy Watersheds, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : community and population dynamics of fishery species; ecosystem-based fisheries management; role of animal migrations in ecosystem dynamics; building a genetic barcode library of Chesapeake fishes and invertebrates; conservation and restoration of coastal ecosystems
Dr. Camellia Okpodu
Institution : Norfolk State University |
Department : Biological Sciences, DIA designated Center of Academic Excellence |
Position : Professor |
Expertise : Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Environmental Education, Toxicology, Trace Metals, Water Quality, Environmental Education
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Dr. Camellia Moses Okpodu, Professor and former Chair of Biology at Norfolk State University (NSU), is the director of both the NSU Defense Intelligence Agency's designated Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence (DIA designated IC-CAE) and the Group for Microgravity and Environmental Biology (GMEB). She has a Ph.D. in Plant Physiology and a minor in Biochemistry from North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC). Before joining NSU, Dr. Okpodu was the Marshall Rauch Distinguished Professor of Biology at Elizabeth City State University (Elizabeth City, North Carolina). She has more than 18 years of experience as an administrator and over 23 years of experience as both a program director and a research scientist. She has served as a project director on a number of research initiatives involving both high school and undergraduate students.
Her career has included the directorship of many different types of STEM education projects funded by NASA, NIH, NRO and NSF. Dr. Okpodu has served as an educational consultant to governmental agencies, private foundations, public school divisions, and institutions of higher learning. Dr. Okpodu is a "STEMotivator and Edu-tainer." She enjoys sharing with others her passion, purpose, persist model for resilience. She is a member of the Sigma Xi, Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Honor Society, the American Society of Plant Biology and the Ecological Society of America.
She has worked on interdisciplinary projects with the government and with the private sector. She is currently working on projects with Virginia Tech on understanding how plants respond to climate change and Old Dominion University via the University of North Carolina’s Coastal Resilience project, which aims to have an understanding how minority communities respond to the environment.
Dr. Okpodu is a member Sigma Xi, Beta Kappa Chi National Scientific Honor Society, and the American Society of Plant Biology. Her academic and professional awards include the Gordon Research Conference Travel Award, the Intelligence Community Faculty Scholar Award, and both the Award of Recognition and the Special Recognition of Merit Award from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In 2013, her biography was included in the National Library of Congress as a Science History Maker.
Although she enjoys the professional accolades, her proudest accomplishment is that as a single mother. She raised three college educated women - two who have followed her into STEM (Dr. Samelia Okpodu Pyuzza and Ms. Elizabeth Okpodu) and one who shares her love of the Arts (Ms. Koren-Grace Okpodu). Dr. Okpodu feels that her daughters are a prime example of her strategy in offering an integrated approach to learning.