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Paul A Baker

Paul A Baker

Publications  

Papers Published

  1. Erik J. Ekdahl, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Paul A. Baker,Catherine A. Rigsby and Kirstin Coley, Holocene multidecadal- to millennial-scale hydrologic variability on the South American Altiplano, The Holocene, vol. 18 (2008), pp. 867-876 .
  2. P.A. Baker, Paleoprecipitation Indicators, in Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments (2008) .
  3. Fritz, S., Baker, P., Lowenstein, T., Seltzer, G., Rigsby, C., Dwyer, G., Tapia, P., Arnold, K., Ku, T.-L., and Luo, S., Hydrologic variation during the last 170,000 years in the South American tropics, Quaternary Research, vol. 61 (2004), pp. 95-104 .
  4. Rowe, H., Guilderson, Dunbar, R., T., Southon, J., Seltzer, G., Mucciarone, D., Baker, P. and Fritz, S., Timing of late Quaternary lake level change: Lake Titicaca, South America, Global and Planetary Change, vol. 38 (2003), pp. 273-290 .
  5. Rigsby, C., Baker, P., and Aldenderfer, M., Fluvial history and human occupation of the Rio Ilave valley, Peru, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, vol. 194 (2003), pp. 165-185 .
  6. Paduano, G., Bush, M., Baker, P., Fritz, S., and Seltzer, G., The deglaciation of Lake Titicaca (Peru/Bolivia): a vegetation and fire history, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, vol. 194 (2003), pp. 259-279 .
  7. Tapia, P., Fritz, S., Baker, P., Seltzer, G., and Dunbar, R., A late Quaternary diatom record of tropical climatic history from Lake Titicaca (Peru and Bolivia), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, vol. 194 (2003), pp. 139-164 .
  8. Grove, M., Baker, P., Cross, S., Rigsby, C., and Seltzer, G., Application of strontium isotopes to understanding the hydrology and paleohydrology of the Altiplano, Bolivia-Peru, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, vol. 194 (2003), pp. 281-297 .
  9. P.A. Baker, Trans-Atlantic climate connections, Science, vol. 296 (2002), pp. 67-68 .
  10. Baker, P., Rigsby, C., Seltzer, G., Fritz, S., Lowenstein, T, Bacher, N., and Veliz, C., Tropical climate changes at millennial and orbital timescales on the Bolivian Altiplano, Nature, vol. 409 (2001), pp. 698-701 .
  11. Baker, P., Grove, M., Cross, S., Seltzer, G., Fritz, S., and Dunbar, R., The history of South American tropical precipitation for the past 25,000 years, Science, vol. 291 (2001), pp. 640-643 .

Papers Accepted

  1. Baker, P.A., Fritz, S.C., Burns, S.J., Ekdahl, E.J., and Rigsby, C.A., The nature and origin of decadal to millennial scale climate variability in the southern tropics of South America: the Holocene record of Lago Umayo, Peru, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology (2008) .
  2. Latrubesse, E., Baker, P., and Argollo, J., 2008, Geomorphology of natural and human-induced disasters in Bolivia, in Latrubesse, E. (in press), Geomorphology of Natural Hazards and Human-Excacerbated Disasters in Latin America, Elsevier, UK. (2008) .
  3. Leavitt, P., Fritz, S., Baker, P., et al., Paleolimnological evidence of the effects on lakes of energy and mass transfer from climate and humans, Limnology and Oceanography (2008) .
  4. Ballantyne, A., Baker, P., and Fritz, S., Climate mediated nitrogen and carbon dynamics in a tropical watershed, Global Biogeochemical Cycles (2008) .
  5. Rigsby, C.A., Hemric, E., and Baker, P.A., Late Quaternary Paleohydrology of the Madre de Dios River, Amazon Basin, Peru, Geomorphology (2008) .
    



 

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301 Old Chemistry
Box 90227
Durham, NC 27708
919 684 6450
fax: (919) 684-5833
pbaker@duke.edu