Professor Department Chair, Geology 310 Ag-Science Building 410 South Third Street River Falls, WI 54022 Tel: 715-425-3345 Fax: 715-425-3785 E-mail: robert.w.baker@uwrf.edu

• Ph.D. 1977. University of Minnesota, Geology
• M.S. 1972. University of Maine, Geology
• B.S. 1969. Florida State University , Geology

• Geology 330, Meteorology Syllabus | Study Guide Exam 1 | Study Guide Exam 2

• Academic advisor for undergraduates majoring in
  
  • Geology
  • Broad Field Science (Environmental Technology Emphasis)
• Faculty advisor for Veteran's Club
• Assistant Coach for UW-RF men's and women's swimming teams

• Administrative Experience

  1987-1995: 1998-: Chairman, Department of Plant and Earth Science, University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

• Awards

  Geological Society of America - Fellow - 1995

  Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year, College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, 1984-1985

• Committees (Current)

  • Department of Plant and Earth Science

    • Teaching Facilitation
    • Hydrogeology/Hydrology Search and Screen
    
    

  • College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (CAFES)

    • Distance Education and Extended Degree-chair
    
    

  • University of Wisconsin-River Falls

    • Broad Field Science Steering
    • Geography/PES Revision and Review
    • Writing-To-Learn
    • Faculty Senate Chair
    • Faculty Senate Long Range Planning
    • Faculty Senate Recruitement, Admissions, and Retention
    
    

• Professional Associations

  • International Glaciological Society
  • Geological Society of America
  • National Association of Geoscience Teachers
  • American Quaternary Association
  • National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture
  • Midwest Friends of the Pleistocene
  • Phi Kappa Phi

Ice mechanics -

processes that influence the deformation of ice and the flow of glaciers including field investigations on the Barnes Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Canada and laboratory studies in a cold laboratory at UWRF.

Dynamics and instability of glaciers and ice sheets -

field studies of basal till deformation on glaciers in Sweden and laboratory studies of sediment deformation at the University of Minnesota (with Neal Iverson).

Glacial stratigraphy of the mid continent -

field and laboratory studies of the glacial sequence in the North-Central U.S. including pedogenic and paleomagnetic investigations.

Hydrology and surface-water quality -

long-term studies of the impact of highway construction activities on surface-water quality in western Wisconsin.

• Iverson, N.R., Baker, R.W., and Hooyer, T.S., In Press. A ring-shear device for the study of till deformation: Tests on a clay-rich and clay-poor till. Quaternary Science Reviews.
  
  
• Baker, R.W., Knox, J., Lively, R.S., Olsen, B.M., In Press. Evidence for entrenchment of the Upper Mississippi Valley by early Pleistocene time. Minnesota Geological Survey.
  
  
• Iverson, N.R., Baker, R.W., Hooke, R.LeB., Hanson, B., and Jansson, P., In Press. Flow mechanism of glaciers on soft beds: 1. A relation between water pressure and local shear stress determined from till esasticity. Journal of Glaciology.
  
  
• Baker, R.W. and Huppert, M.L., 1996. Environmental impact of highway development on surface-water quality in a small watershed, West-Central Wisconsin. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 28, No. 6, p. 46.
  
  
• Baker, R.W. and Hooyer, T.S., 1996. Multiple till layers beneath Storglaciaren, Kebnekaise Mountains, Sweden. Tarfala Research Station Annual Report, 1994-95, p. 25-29.
  
  
• Baker, R.W., Hughes, M, Huffman, S.F., and Nelson, A., 1991. Closed depression map of St. Croix County, Wisconsin. Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey Map Series 91-93.
  
  
• Baker, R.W., Bauer, E.J., Huffman, S.F., and Hass, E., 1990. Karst Map of Pierce County, Wisconsin. Wisconsin Geologic and Nautral History Survey, Map Series 90-1.
  
  
• Meyer, G.N., Baker, R.W., and Patterson, C.J., 1990. Quaternary geology of Washington County, Minnesota. Minnesota Geological Survey County Atlas Series, Atlas C-5.
  
  
• Baker, R.W. 1987. Is the creep of ice really independent of the third deviatoric stress invariant? International Association of Scientific Hydrology, Publication no. 170, p. 7-16.
  
  
• Baker, R.W., 1984. Pleistocene history of west-central Wisconsin. Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey Field Trip Guide Book 11, 76 p.
  
  
• Baker, R.W., Diehl, J.F., Simpson, T.W., Zelazny, L.W., and Beske-Diehl, S., 1983. Pre-Wisconsin glacial stratigraphy, chronology, and paleomagnetics of west-central Wisconsin. Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 94, no. 12, p. 1442-1449.
  
  
• Baker, R.W., 1982. A flow equation for anistropic ice. Cold Regions Science and Technology, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 117-126.
  
  
• Baker, R.W., 1981. Textural and crystal-fabric anisotropies and the flow of ice masses. Science, vol. 211, no. 4486, p. 1043-1044.
  
  
• Baker, R.W., and Gerberich, W.W., 1979. The effects of crystal size and dispersed solid inclusions on the activation energy for creep of ice. Journal of Glaciology, vol. 24, no. 90, p. 179-194.
  
  
• Baker, R.W., 1978. The influence of ice-crystal size on creep. Journal of Glaciology, vol. 21, no.85, p. 485-500.
  
  

Given over 100 seminars, lectures, and talks ranging from presentations at international meetings (Cambridge, England, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Canada, and San Antonio, Texas) to seminars at colleges and universities (Lehigh University, Lafayette College, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and Duluth, Michigan Technological University, University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, Eau Claire and Parkside, and the University of Stockholm, Sweden), and talks to civic and school organizations.

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