Paul A Baker, Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences

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

Teaching (Fall 2009):

Teaching (Spring 2010):

Education:

PhDScripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
MSThe Pennsylvania State University
BAUniversity 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

  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)