Institution : US Geological Survey (USGS) |
Department : Water Resources |
Position : Research Hydrologist |
Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Biogeochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Nutrient Cycling, Water Quality, Pesticides
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Toxic Contaminants |
Research interests : decadal-scale forecasting of export or total nitrogen from the watershed to the Bay, contribution of nitrate from groundwater to streams, base flow, fate and transport of pesticides
Institution : Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS) |
Department : Aquatic Health Sciences |
Expertise : Algae Blooms, Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Ecology, Fisheries, Genomics/Genetics, Invasive Species, Marine Life, Oysters, disease, aquaculture, restoration, marine resource management
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : shellfish health; evolutionary ecology of marine diseases; fishery and aquaculture health management; parasite phylogenetics and phylogeography
Institution : Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) |
Department : Environmental Science, Science Communication |
Position : Citizen Science Coordinator |
Expertise : Communications, Environmental Education, Jellyfish, Environmental Education, citizen science
Chesapeake Management Areas : Environmental Literacy, Stewardship |
Research interests : community engagement in science, stakeholder engagement, STEM attitudes and learning
Institution : Penn State University (PSU) |
Department : Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) |
Position : Researcher |
Expertise : Forests, Sediment, Stream Health, Hydrology
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds |
Research interests : Unpaved Rural roads as a source of sediment pollution and dust
Institution : University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) |
Department : Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology |
Expertise : Crabs, Genomics/Genetics
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries |
Research interests : regulatory mechanism of growth and reproduction of crabs
Institution : Old Dominion University (ODU) |
Department : Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences (OEAS) |
Expertise : Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Oceanography
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality |
Research interests : Observing and modeling the impact of physical ocean and estuarine processes (e.g. transport and mixing) on the distribution of planktonic organisms, and dissolved and particulate properties and contaminants.
Institution : Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) |
Expertise : Chesapeake Bay Advocacy and Fund-Raising, Crabs, Ecology, Environmental Education, Fisheries, Invasive Species, Marine Life, Oysters, Rockfish, Seagrass, Environmental Education
Chesapeake Management Areas : Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Stewardship |
Research interests : biophysical feedback of restored oyster reefs; ecosystem benefits of oyster restoration; ecosystem based fisheries management; habitat suitability modeling
Institution : Penn State University (PSU) |
Department : Landscape Architecture |
Position : Associate Professor |
Expertise : Ecology, Wildlife Ecology, wetlands
Chesapeake Management Areas : Vital Habitats, Healthy Watersheds, Land Conservation, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship |
Research interests : Ecology of headwater wetlands; functional assessment
Institution : University of Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES) |
Department : Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences |
Expertise : Agricultural Runoff, Ecological Modeling, Nutrient Pollution, Water Quality
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Healthy Watersheds, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Nutrient transport and watershed modeling; water quality monitoring; watershed modeling; Soil health initiatives for research and education
Institution : Shippensburg University |
Department : Appalachian Laboratory (AL), Geography and Earth Sciences |
Expertise : Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Environmental Education, Nutrient Pollution, Oceanography, Oysters, Sea Level Rise, Seagrass, Sediment, Water Quality, Environmental Education, Coastal Resiliency
Chesapeake Management Areas : Water Quality, Environmental Literacy, Stewardship, Climate Resiliency |
Research interests : Ghost forest development on barrier islands, impacts of barrier island beach replenishment, sea-level rise monitoring, invasive species, coastal resources management, coastal restoration
