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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Paul A. Baker is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research spans several fields including Engineering, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Environmental Science. Within these domains, key subfields of study for Baker include Ocean Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology, and Ecology.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics with a focus on Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Drilling and Well Engineering, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Fish biology, ecology, and behavior, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Geological formations and processes, and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

Recent publications by Paul A. Baker include:

  • "Vulnerability of the biota in riverine and seasonally flooded habitats to damming of Amazonian rivers" (2020) in Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • "Holocene variations in Lake Titicaca water level and their implications for sociopolitical developments in the central Andes" (2023) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The Rise and Fall of Wiñaymarka: Rethinking Cultural and Environmental Interactions in the Southern Basin of Lake Titicaca" (2021) in Human Ecology
  • "Reconstructing two millennia of copper and silver metallurgy in the Lake Titicaca region (Bolivia/Peru) using trace metals and lead isotopic composition" (2021) in Anthropocene
  • "Ecological resilience in tropical Andean lakes: A paleolimnological perspective" (2021) in Limnology and Oceanography

Paul A. Baker frequently collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • Catherine A. Rigsby
  • Charlotte A Brunner
  • Rowena C. Duckworth
  • Wayne D. Goodfellow
  • Henrike M. Gröschel-Becker

Common venues for Baker's publications include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Awards earned by Paul A. Baker include being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2018 and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • The History of South American Tropical Precipitation for the Past 25,000 Years

    Paul A. Baker;Geoffrey O. Seltzer;Sherilyn C. Fritz;Robert B. Dunbar

  • Constraints on the Formation of Sedimentary Dolomite

    Paul A. Baker;Miriam Kastner

  • Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin

    Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse;Eugenio Y. Arima;Thomas Dunne;Edward Park

  • Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation

    Peter U. Clark;Jeremy D. Shakun;Paul A. Baker;Patrick J. Bartlein

  • Tropical climate changes at millennial and orbital timescales on the Bolivian Altiplano

    Paul A. Baker;Catherine A. Rigsby;Geoffrey O. Seltzer;Sherilyn C. Fritz

  • Occurrence and Formation of Dolomite in Organic-Rich Continental Margin Sediments

    Paul A. Baker;Stephen J. Burns

  • Diagenesis of carbonates in deep-sea sediments; evidence from Sr/Ca ratios and interstitial dissolved Sr (super 2+) data

    Paul A. Baker;Joris M. Gieskes;Harry Elderfield

  • Coral growth rate: Variation with depth

    Paul A. Baker;Jon N. Weber

  • North Atlantic Deepwater Temperature Change During Late Pliocene and Late Quaternary Climatic Cycles

    Gary S. Dwyer;Thomas M. Cronin;Paul A. Baker;Maureen E. Raymo

  • Hydrologic variation during the last 170,000 years in the southern hemisphere tropics of South America

    Sherilyn C. Fritz;Paul A. Baker;Tim K. Lowenstein;Geoffrey O. Seltzer

  • Nature and causes of Quaternary climate variation of tropical South America

    Paul A. Baker;Paul A. Baker;Sherilyn C. Fritz

  • Late Quaternary Climate and Hydrology of Tropical South America Inferred from an Isotopic and Chemical Model of Lake Titicaca, Bolivia and Peru

    Scott L. Cross;Paul A. Baker;Geoffrey O. Seltzer;Sherilyn C. Fritz

  • A vegetation and fire history of Lake Titicaca since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Gina M Paduano;Mark B Bush;Paul A Baker;Sherilyn C Fritz

  • Paleolimnological evidence of the effects on lakes of energy and mass transfer from climate and humans

    P. R. Leavitt;S. C. Fritz;N. J. Anderson;P. A. Baker

  • A new estimate of the Holocene lowstand level of Lake Titicaca, central Andes, and implications for tropical palaeohydrology.

    Scott L. Cross;Paul A. Baker;Geoffrey O. Seltzer;Sherilyn C. Fritz

  • Early Warming of Tropical South America at the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition

    G. O. Seltzer;D. T. Rodbell;P. A. Baker;Sherilyn C. Fritz

  • A Late Quaternary diatom record of tropical climatic history from Lake Titicaca (Peru and Bolivia)

    Pedro M Tapia;Sherilyn C Fritz;Paul A Baker;Geoffrey O Seltzer

  • Cenozoic marine sedimentation in the Sechura and Pisco basins, Peru

    Robert B. Dunbar;Richard C. Marty;Paul A. Baker

  • Quaternary glaciation and hydrologic variation in the South American tropics as reconstructed from the Lake Titicaca drilling project

    Sherilyn C. Fritz;Paul A. Baker;Geoffrey O. Seltzer;Ashley Ballantyne

  • The deep structure of a sea-floor hydrothermal deposit

    Robert A. Zierenberg;Yves Fouquet;D.J. Miller;J.M. Bahr

Frequent Co-Authors

Sherilyn C. Fritz
Sherilyn C. Fritz University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Cristiano Mazur Chiessi
Cristiano Mazur Chiessi Universidade de São Paulo
Geoffrey O. Seltzer
Geoffrey O. Seltzer Syracuse University
André Oliveira Sawakuchi
André Oliveira Sawakuchi Universidade de São Paulo
Enno Schefuß
Enno Schefuß University of Bremen
Stefan Mulitza
Stefan Mulitza University of Bremen
Gary S. Dwyer
Gary S. Dwyer Duke University
Matthias Zabel
Matthias Zabel University of Bremen
Robert B. Dunbar
Robert B. Dunbar Stanford University
Yusuke Yokoyama
Yusuke Yokoyama University of Tokyo

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