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  • 1965 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John M. Baker is affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

They have contributed to several significant subfields within these disciplines, such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Soil Science
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Agronomy and Crop Science

John M. Baker's research topics focus on:

  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal

The scientist has published numerous papers in notable venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Journal of Environmental Quality
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Water Resources Research
  • Agricultural Systems

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Manuresheds: Advancing nutrient recycling in US agriculture," 2020, Agricultural Systems
  • "Environmental assessment of United States dairy farms," 2021, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Hydrometeorological sensitivities of net ecosystem carbon dioxide and methane exchange of an Amazonian palm swamp peatland," 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • "Comparative analysis of water budgets across the U.S. long-term agroecosystem research network," 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • "Comparative Metabolomics and Molecular Phylogenetics of Melon (Cucumis melo, Cucurbitaceae) Biodiversity," 2020, Metabolites

John M. Baker frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Timothy J. Griffis
  • Peter J. A. Kleinman
  • Zhongjie Yu
  • Gary W. Feyereisen
  • Rodney T. Venterea

John M. Baker was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1965.

Best Publications

  • Tillage and soil carbon sequestration—What do we really know?

    John M. Baker;John M. Baker;Tyson E. Ochsner;Tyson E. Ochsner;Rodney T. Venterea;Rodney T. Venterea;Timothy J. Griffis

  • Global and time-resolved monitoring of crop photosynthesis with chlorophyll fluorescence

    Luis Guanter;Yongguang Zhang;Martin Jung;Joanna Joiner

  • Impacts of woodchip biochar additions on greenhouse gas production and sorption/degradation of two herbicides in a Minnesota soil.

    K.A. Spokas;W.C. Koskinen;J.M. Baker;D.C. Reicosky

  • A parameterization of snowpack and frozen ground intended for NCEP weather and climate models

    V. Koren;J. Schaake;K. Mitchell;Q.-Y. Duan

  • Measurement of mass flow of water in the stems of herbaceous plants

    J. M. Baker;C. H. M. Van Bavel

  • Soil organic carbon and nitrogen in a Minnesota soil as related to tillage, residue and nitrogen management

    M.S. Dolan;C.E. Clapp;R.R. Allmaras;J.M Baker

  • System for Automating and Multiplexing Soil Moisture Measurement by Time-Domain Reflectometry

    J. M. Baker;R. R. Allmaras

  • Ethylene: potential key for biochar amendment impacts

    Kurt A. Spokas;Kurt A. Spokas;John M. Baker;John M. Baker;Donald C. Reicosky

  • The Soil Freezing Characteristic: Its Measurement and Similarity to the Soil Moisture Characteristic

    Egbert J. A. Spaans;John M. Baker

  • ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station

    Joshua B. Fisher;Brian Lee;Adam J. Purdy;Gregory H. Halverson

  • A metabolomic study of substantial equivalence of field-grown genetically modified wheat

    John M. Baker;Nathaniel D. Hawkins;Jane L. Ward;Alison Lovegrove

  • Glycosyl transferases in family 61 mediate arabinofuranosyl transfer onto xylan in grasses.

    Nadine Anders;Mark D. Wilkinson;Alison Lovegrove;Jacqueline Freeman

  • Examining strategies to improve the carbon balance of corn/soybean agriculture using eddy covariance and mass balance techniques

    J. M. Baker;T. J. Griffis

  • Transcriptional adaptation of Mycosphaerella graminicola to programmed cell death (PCD) of its susceptible wheat host.

    John Keon;John Antoniw;Raffaella Carzaniga;Siân Deller

  • Nitrous oxide emissions are enhanced in a warmer and wetter world

    Timothy J. Griffis;Zichong Chen;John M. Baker;John M. Baker;Jeffrey D. Wood;Jeffrey D. Wood

  • The metabolic transition during disease following infection of Arabidopsis thaliana by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato

    Jane L. Ward;Silvia Forcat;Manfred Beckmann;Mark Bennett

  • THE SPATIAL SENSITIVITY OF TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY

    J. M. Baker;R. J. Lascano

  • Remote estimation of crop gross primary production with Landsat data

    Anatoly A. Gitelson;Yi Peng;Jeffery G. Masek;Donald C. Rundquist

  • Tropical Forest Biomass Density Estimation Using JERS-1 SAR: Seasonal Variation, Confidence Limits, and Application to Image Mosaics

    Adrian Luckman;John Baker;Miroslav Honzák;Richard Lucas

  • Winter Rye Cover Crop Management Influences on Soil Water, Soil Nitrate, and Corn Development

    Erik S. Krueger;Tyson E. Ochsner;Paul M. Porter;John M. Baker

  • Examining the use of time domain reflectometry for measuring liquid water content in frozen soil

    Egbert J. A. Spaans;John M. Baker

  • δ18O of water vapour, evapotranspiration and the sites of leaf water evaporation in a soybean canopy

    Lisa R. Welp;Xuhui Lee;Kyounghee Kim;Timothy J. Griffis

  • Identification and correction of spectral contamination in 2H/1H and 18O/16O measured in leaf, stem, and soil water.

    Natalie M. Schultz;Timothy J. Griffis;Xuhui Lee;John M. Baker;John M. Baker

  • ACCURACY OF HOURLY AIR TEMPERATURES CALCULATED FROM DAILY MINIMA AND MAXIMA

    D.C Reicosky;L.J Winkelman;J.M Baker;D.G Baker

  • Measuring field-scale isotopic CO2 fluxes with tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy and micrometeorological techniques

    Timothy J Griffis;J. M. Baker;J. M. Baker;S. D. Sargent;B. D. Tanner

  • Micrometeorology in Agricultural Systems

    Jerry L. Hatfield;J. M. Baker;Marian K. Viney

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy J. Griffis
Timothy J. Griffis University of Minnesota
Xuhui Lee
Xuhui Lee Yale University
Rodney T. Venterea
Rodney T. Venterea Agricultural Research Service
Tyson Ochsner
Tyson Ochsner Oklahoma State University
Dylan B. Millet
Dylan B. Millet University of Minnesota
Jane M. F. Johnson
Jane M. F. Johnson US Department of Agriculture
Emanuele Berti
Emanuele Berti Johns Hopkins University
Douglas L. Karlen
Douglas L. Karlen Iowa State University
Carl J. Bernacchi
Carl J. Bernacchi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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