Dr. Victor R. Baker

With LPL since: 1981

Current Projects:

• Geology and Paleohydrology of Mars (channels, valleys, paleoclimatic change)
• Cataclysmic Pleistocene Flooding in the Northwestern U.S. (with Geosciences)NASA
• Paleoflood Hydrology (with Hydrology and Water Resources)
• Earth Sciences and Public Policy

Classes taught:
all in Geosciences

Selected Memberships/Committee Positions:

• Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Sciences
• U.S. National Research Council, Committee on Hydrologic Sciences

Spacecraft involvement:

• Skylab (P.I.)
• Apollo-Soyuz (Co-I)
• Viking (guest investigator)
• Magellan (Radar Investigation Team)
• Mars Odyssey, Gamma Ray Spectrometer Team
• NASA Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment

• Baker, V.R., 2005, Picturing a recently active Mars: Nature, v. 434, p. 280-283.
• Baker, V.R., Dohm, J.M., Fairen, A.G., Ferre, T.P.A., Ferris, J.C., Miyamoto, H., and Schulze-Makuch, D., 2005, Extraterrestrial hydrogeology. Hydrogeology Journal, v. 13, p. 51-68.
• Baker, V.R., 2004, A brief geological history of water on Mars, in Seckbach, J., editor, Origins: Genesis, evolution and diversity of life: Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, p. 621-631.
• Baker, V.R., 2003, Planetary science: Icy Martian mysteries: Nature, v. 426, p. 779-780.
• Baker, V.R., 2002, The study of superfloods: Science, v. 295, p. 2379-2380.
• Baker, V.R., 2001, Water and the Martian landscape: Nature, v. 412, p. 228-236.

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