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Paul A. Baker
Professor Emeritus of Earth and Climate Science
Earth and Climate Sciences
pbaker@duke.edu
Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708
9 Circuit Drive, 5116 Grainger Hall, Durham, NC 27708
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Biodiversity Conservation in the Binational Mira-Mataje River Basins-Building Biophysical and Socio-Environmental Bases for Conservation and the Adaptive Management of Ecosystem Services
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ·
2017 - 2024
Collaborative Research: Trans-Amazon Drilling Project
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2018 - 2024
A Proposal to Manage the U.S. Science Support Program Office associated with the International Ocean Discovery Program (USSSP-IODP) (On-campus)
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by The Trustees of Columbia University ·
2020 - 2022
A Proposal to Manage the U.S. Science Support Program Office associated with the International Ocean Discovery Program (USSSP-IODP) (Off-campus)
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by The Trustees of Columbia University ·
2020 - 2021
FESD Type I: Dynamics of Mountains, Landscapes and Climate Biodiversity Amazon/Andean Forest
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2013 - 2020
Collaborative Research: Morphology and Molecules Diatom Diversification, Extinction, and Dispersal in an Ancient Tropical Lake System
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2013 - 2017
Bridging the Gap; A Promising Vertebrate Fossil Assemblage Site in the Madre de Dios Region, Peru
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Geographic Society ·
2016 - 2016
Collab Research: High-res record late Quaternary paleohydrology/paleoclimate Amazon Basin
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2008 - 2012
Collaborative Proposal: Excavation of Underwater Cavern Containing Primates and Archaeological Remains in Hispaniola
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Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2010 - 2012
Collaborative Research: Holocene Drought in the North American Interior
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2006 - 2011
Reconstructing past climates of the Amazon basin from the isotopic analysis of tropical trees
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2006 - 2010
Environmental effects of the coal ash spill and remediation at Kingston TN
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Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2009 - 2010
South Pacific SST Oscillations and Climate
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Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2007 - 2008
Collaborative Research in Holocene Geology and Anthropology: Paleoclimate, Landscape Evolution, and Human Occupation of the Western Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2003 - 2007
Collaborative Research: Lake Titicaca Drilling Program
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2001 - 2005
Quaternary Paleoclimatic Record from Tropical South America: Drilling the Salar de Uyuni
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1999 - 2002
Quaternary Paleoclimatic Record from Tropical South America: Lake Titicaca
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1997 - 2000
SGER Project to Calibrate a Deep-Sea Paleothermometer
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1997 - 1998
The Fine-scale Hydrogeology and Geochemistry of the Areas of Active Venting in Middle Valley, a Sedimented Rift of the Northern Juan de Fuca Ridge
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1995 - 1998
Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Mass Spectrometer
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Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Office of Science & Technology Infrastructure ·
1996 - 1997
Lake Titicaca: Toward a Detail Record of Lake Quaternary Climate in Subtropical South America
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1996 - 1997
Deep Ocean Temperature and Climate Change Over the Last 200,000 Years
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by US Geological Survey ·
1996 - 1997
Collaborative Research: The Geochemistry of Hydrothermal Sediments, Middle Valley, Juan De Fuca Ridge
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1994 - 1996
Geochemical Analysis of Ostracodes from the Arctic Ocean: Last Glacial Maximum to Present
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1994 - 1995
Paleoclimatic Research in Lake Titicaca
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1994 - 1995
The Geochemistry of Hydrothermal Sediments, Middle Valley, Juan de Fuca Ridge
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1993 - 1995
Core-Top Calibration and Application of a New Paleoceanographic Tool: The Shell Chemistry of Marine Ostracodes
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by US Geological Survey ·
1993 - 1994
U.S. Science Support Program
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1991 - 1992
Periplatform Sediments and Environments on the Tectonically Active Nicaraguan Rise
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1988 - 1990
Geochemistry and Early Diagenesis of the Monterey Formation, Shell Beach, California
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1987 - 1990
Geochemistry and Early Diagenesis of the Monterey Formation, Shell Beach, California
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Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1988 - 1990
