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Curriculum Vitae
Richard G. Baker
Address:
Department of Geoscience
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1379
Phone: 319-335-1827
e-mail: dick-baker@uiowa.edu
Education:
Ph.D. University of Colorado, geology, 1969
M.S. University of Minnesota, geology, 1964
B.A. University of Wisconsin, geology, 1960
Professional experience:
Professor Emeritus, 2000-present
Chairman, Department of Geology, University of Iowa, 1992-1995
Professor of Biology, University of Iowa, 1992-present (Joint
appointment)
Professor of Botany, University of Iowa, 1988-1992 (Joint
appointment)
Professor of Geology, University of Iowa, 1982-2000.
Associate Professor of Geology, University of Iowa, 1975-1981.
Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Iowa, 1970-74.
Honors:
Iowa Academy of Science Distinguished Scientist,
2001
Fellow, Geological Society of America
Fellow, Iowa Academy of Science
University of Iowa Faculty Scholar Award, 1994-1998
Memberships:
Geological Society of America (Fellow)
American Quaternary Association (Councilor, 2000-200
Ecological Society of America
Iowa Academy of Science (Fellow)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Teaching assignments:
Geology of US National Parks, 12:17, fall, 2001
Directed Study (Palynology and Paleoecology), spring, 2002
Students supervised, last 5 years:
Ph.D:
Work, Paula Thorson, graduated 1998
Van Nest, Julieann, graduated 1997
MS:
Adrain, Tiffany present MS student
Strickland, Laura graduated 1998
Krieg, Joseph graduated 1997
Recent publications (#=invited):
#*Baker, R.G., Bettis, E. A. III, Denniston, R.F., and
Gonzalez, L.A., 2001. Plant remains, alluvial chronology,
and cave speleothem isotopes indicate abrupt Holocene climatic
change at 6ka in Midwestern USA., Global and Planetary Change
28, 285-291.
*Baker, R.G. 2000. Holocene environments reconstructed
from plant macrofossils in stream deposits from southeastern
Nebraska, The Holocene 10, 357-365.
*Baker, R.G., Fredlund, G.G., Mandel, R.D., and Bettis,
E.A. III, 2000. Holocene Environments Of The Central Great
Plains, Quaternary International.
***Curry, B. B. and Baker, R.G. in press, Paleohydrology,
vegetation, and climate during the last interglaciation
(Sangamon Episode) in south-central Illinois. Palaeogeography,
Paleaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
*Baker, R.G., and Mason, J.A. 1999. Arctic plant macrofossils
from a full glacial deposit of southeastern Minnesota, Quaternary
Research 52, 388-392.
***Denniston, R.F., Gonzalez, L.A., Asmerom, Y., Baker,
R.G., Reagan, M.K. and Bettis, E.A. III, 1999. Evidence
for increased cool season moisture during the middle Holocene,
Geology 27, 815-818.
****Denniston, R.F., Gonzalez, L.A., Semken, H.A., Asmerom,
Y., Baker, R.G., Recelli-Snyder, H., Reagan, M.K. and Bettis,
E.A. III, 1999. Integrating stalagmite, vertebrate, and
pollen sequences to investigate Holocene vegetation and
climate change in the southern Midwestern United States.
Quaternary Research 52, 381-387.
***Denniston, R.F., Gonzalez, L.A., Baker, R.G., Asmerom,
Y., Reagan, M.K. Edwards, R.L., and Alexander, C., 1999.
Speleothem evidence for fluctuations of the prairie-forest
ecotone, north-central USA. The Holocene 9, 671-676.
*Baker, R.G., Gonzalez, L.A., Raymo, M. Bettis, E.A. III,
Reagan, M.K., and Dorale, J.A. 1998. Comparison of multiple
proxy records of Holocene environments in midwestern USA.
Geology 26, 1131-1134.
***Maher, L.J., Jr., Miller, N.G., Baker, R.G., Curry,
B.B., and Mickelson, D.M. 1998, Paleobiology of the sand
beneath the Valders Till at Valders, Wisconsin. Quaternary
Research 49, 208-221.
#*Baker, R.G. 1998. Late Quaternary environmental changes
in midwestern United States. pp 3-8 in Lannoo, M.,
editor, The Status and Conservation of Midwestern Amphibians,
University of Iowa Press, Iowa City.
Krieg, Joseph R., Bettis, E. Arthur, III, and Baker, Richard
G., 1998, Geoarchaeological variability between two central
Iowa Drainage Basins, Current Research in the Pleistocene,
v. 15, pp. 132-134.
*Baker, R.G., Bettis, E.A. III, Schwert, D.P., Horton,
D.G., Chumbley, C.A., Gonzalez, L.A., and Reagan, M.K. 1996.
Holocene Paleoenvironments of northeast Iowa. Ecological
Monographs 66, 203-234.
#*Zhu, Hong and Baker, R.G. 1995. Vegetation and climate
of the last glacial-interglacial cycle in southern Illinois.
Journal of Paleolimnology 14, 337-354.
Grant proposals:
Wisconsinan environments of the eastern edge of the central
Great Plains. Earth System History, Paleoclimatology Program,
NSF. $26,636, submitted Jan. 2002.
University Assignments:
Dean’s Emeritus Advisory Board, 2001-2003
Dean’s Committee on selection of Dean’s Scholars 2001-2003
Other service:
1. Associate Editor for Paleoecology for the journal "Plant
Ecology" (1999-2002)
2. Strategic Science Initiative member (Union of Concerned
Scientists).
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