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Research Interests for Paul A Baker

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)

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