Institution : American Rivers |
Department : Ecosystem Restoration |
Expertise : Chesapeake Bay Advocacy and Fund-Raising, Ecology, Fisheries, Regional Restoration Project Design/Management, Wildlife Ecology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats |
Research interests : River restoration monitoring, especially dam removal
Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) |
Department : Crop and Soil Environmental Science (CSES) |
Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Nutrient Cycling, Sediment
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : agricultural best management
Institution : Virginia Tech (VT) |
Department : Biological Systems Engineering |
Expertise : Agricultural BMPs, Agricultural Runoff, Environmental Engineering, Nutrient Pollution, Sediment, Stream Health, Water Quality, stream restoration
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds |
Research interests : stream and wetland restoration design; management of urban streams; streambank erosion rate measurement and prediction; interaction between riparian and wetland vegetation and water movement; wetland water budgets; stormwater management
Institution : US Geological Survey (USGS) |
Department : Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO), Environment and Natural Resources, Geography |
Expertise : Land Use, GIS, Healthy Watersheds
Chesapeake Management Areas : Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation |
Research interests : Mapping and modeling land use change in the Chesapeake bay, maintains datasets related to protected lands and federal lands, research related to infill and redevelopment, mapping and modeling healthy watersheds and vulnerability.
Institution : University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) |
Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) |
Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Education, Environmental Engineering, Water Quality, Environmental Education, Persistent Organic Pollutants
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants |
Research interests : Fate of POPs in natural and engineered environments
Institution : US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) |
Department : Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) |
Expertise : Ecology, Environmental Microbiology, Genomics/Genetics, Marine Life, Marine Microbiology, Nutrient Pollution, Oceanography, Oysters, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Environmental Literacy |
Research interests : Trends analysis of Bay water quality response to changes in pollution loading; Bay aquatic life response to changes in pollution loading; linking watershed activities to tidal response; communication of Bay science and research to managers
Institution : Maryland Department of Natural Resources |
Department : Tidewater Ecosystem Assessment |
Expertise : Algae Blooms, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Dead Zones, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality |
Research interests : Long-term and real-time water quality monitoring to facilitate modeling, research and management decisions
Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) |
Department : Fisheries Science |
Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Crabs, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Fisheries, Invasive Species, Marine Life, Rockfish, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship |
Research interests : Recruitment of fishes to Chesapeake Bay; early life history population dynamics; effects of invasive species on native fishes; population dynamics of American eel; effects of water quality on fish health and recruitment; changes in fish assemblages through time.
Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) |
Department : Aquatic Health Sciences |
Expertise : Biogeochemistry, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Environmental Chemistry, Sediment, Toxicology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Toxic Contaminants, Stewardship |
Research interests : I am active in research, teaching and advisory services related to environmental contaminant issues in Chesapeake Bay. My research interests include analytical method development including biosensors, contaminant partitioning behavior, toxicity studies to assess the effects of contaminants and long-term fate studies to assess regulatory actions. I have studied polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon contamination in the Elizabeth River, Virginia for over 25 years and recent research has focused on the development of antibody-based sensors for the near real-time analysis of environmental contaminants.
Institution : NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
Department : Ocean Ecology Lab |
Expertise : Algae Blooms, Biogeochemistry, Climate/Weather Modeling and Forecasting, Climate/Weather Impact Analysis (biochemistry and living resources), Communications, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Fisheries, Marine Life, Oceanography
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Water Quality, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Monitoring the long-term response of ocean biology to physical forcing through the use of satellite-remote sensing data, in situ measurements, model output and statistical reconstructions using proxies.
