Paul A Baker, Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences

Contact Info:

Office Location:	310 Old Chemistry Bldg., Box 90230
Office Phone:	919-684-6450
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• EOS 209S.01, PALEOCLIMATE

  Old Chem 201, W 02:50 PM-05:50 PM

• ENVIRON 398.08, PROGRAM AREA SYMPOSIUM

  LSRC A109, F 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

• EOS 251S.01, GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Synopsis

  Old Chem 201, W 02:50 PM-05:20 PM

• ENVIRON 398.08, PROGRAM AREA SYMPOSIUM

  Old Chem 201, F 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

Education:

PhD	Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
MS	The Pennsylvania State University
BA	University of Rochester

Specialties:

biogeochemistry
marine science
oceanography
ecology

Research Interests: Geochemistry of water and sediments. Climate and paleoclimate reconstruction. Strong interest in interdisciplinary studies in earth and ocean sciences, ecology, climate, anthropology, geography

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

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. 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 (Accepted, 2008)
3. 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. (Accepted, 2008)
4. 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 (Accepted, 2008)
5. Ballantyne, A., Baker, P., and Fritz, S., Climate mediated nitrogen and carbon dynamics in a tropical watershed, Global Biogeochemical Cycles (Accepted, 2008)