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Victor R. Baker is Regents’ Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources, Geosciences, and Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona. He received a B.S. in Geology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1967 and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Colorado in 1971. After working as a hydrologist and geophysicist for the U.S. Geological Survey in New York and Colorado, he was on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin from 1971-1981, advancing to the rank of Full Professor. In 1981 he moved to the Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, first a Full Professor, and then in 1988 as one of The University of Arizona's first Regents' Professors. From 1996-2004 he was the Department Head of the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona.Show Less
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Courses
- GHGeologic Hazards
- GQGGlacial and Quaternary Geology
- EOWHEarth: Our Watery Home
Grants
- Characterization of Tsunami Features and Environments throughout The Martian Northern Plains
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$61.0K
Active - Paleoflood Hydrology of the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$57.6K
- Paleoflood Hydrology of the Colorado River System
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$76.6K
- Geomorphic Investigations of Martian Outflow Channels
Principal Investigator (PI)
2013
$36.6K
- Obliquity-Controlled Water Vapor/Trace Gas Feedback in the Martian Greenhouse Cycle
Principal Investigator (PI)
2011
$74.8K
- RAPID:Flow Dynamics/Morphological Impacts of March 11 Tohoku Tsunami, Japan
Principal Investigator (PI)
2011
$28.7K
- Impact of Climate Change on Extreme Floods in the Western US
Principal Investigator (PI)
2009
$150.5K
News
- Amazonia's Future Will Be Jeopardized by Dams
2017
- Glaciers' Retreat Documented in Book From UA-Led Project
2014
- Awards and Accolades
2012
- Mars Up Close and Personal
2010
- Gamma-Ray Evidence Suggests Ancient Mars Had Oceans
2008
- Medicine, Water, Cosmic Awareness are Topics for St. Albert Forum
2007
- Public Invited to UA's Phoenix Mars Mission Open House May 5 - 'Cinco de Mars'
2007
- Sept 20 NOVA 'Mystery of the Megaflood' Features UA's Victor Baker
2005
- Future "Smart" Robotic Space Missions Will Be Multi-Tiered, Researchers Say
2005
- UA Scientists Help Create Spacecraft That Think for Themselves
2004
- Talks on Creation, Search for Aliens Conclude Forum on Faith and Science
2004
- Maddock New Head of Hydrology and Water Resources
2004
- Prop. 301 to Fund Water Research at UA
2003
- UA Regents Professor, Victor Baker, to Speak About Mars Sept. 12
2003
- Is the Grand Canyon a Geologic Infant?
2002
- Floods at Mars' Equator Are Recent, UA Scientists Say
2002
- Dark Streaks on Martian Slopes May Signal Active Water
2002
- Newly Discovered Antarctic Microbes Suggest Life Is Possible In Terrains on Mars
2002
- Superfloods Continue to Generate Heat in Earth Science
2002
- New Concept Proposes that 'Superplumes' Lift Continents on Earth and Tharsis on Mars
2001
- Ancient, Gigantic Drainage Basin Became Aquifer on Mars
2001
- Water Shaped Martian Landscape in Recent Times, UA Hydrologist Says
2001
- Year in Review 2001: College of Science
2001
- UA Mars Scientists Hold Open House as Odyssey Arrives at Mars
2001
- Scientists Find Largest Flood Channels in the Solar System
2001
- Victor R. Baker
2000
- Ice Mountains on Titan? We'll See in 2004
2000
- Scientists to Launch Major New International Hydrology Initiative
1999
- New UA Water Report Examined Further
1999
Publications (243)
Recent
- Fluvial palaeohydrology in the 21st century and beyond
2022
- 20 years of tier-scalable reconnaisance: Adoption of a game-changing mission paradigm
2022
- Peircian perspectives on the global climate change controversy
2022
- J Harlen Bretz (1882-1981): Outrageous geological hypothesizer
2022
- Fluvial palaeohydrology in the the 21st century and beyond
2021
- North Polar Trough Formation due to In-Situ Erosion as a Source of Young Martian Ice in Mid Latitudinal Mantles
2021
- Landscape evolution in the Finke (Larapinta) River transverse Drainage, central mountain ranges, Australia
2021
- Holocene extreme paleofloods and their climatological context, Upper Colorado River Basin, USA
2020
- Oldest highlands of Mars may be massive dust fallout deposit
2020
- The modern evolution of geomorphology: Binghamton and personal perspectives, 1970-2019 and beyond
2020
- The Missoula and Bonneville Floods—A review of ice-age megafloods in the Columbia River Basin
2020
- The chaotic terrains of Mercury reveal a history of planetary volatile retention and loss in the innermost solar system
2020
- The abductive approach to synthetic autonomous reasoning
2019
- Planetary protection and the astrobiological exploration of Mars: Proactive steps in moving forward
2019
- Paleoflood hydrology of the lower Green River, upper Colorado River Basin, USA: An example of a naturalist approach to flood-risk analysis
2019
- Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)—a community perspective
2019
- Globally Optimal Rover Traverse Planner using Dijkstra’s Algorithm For Multi-Objective Deployment Scenarios
2019
- The 1997 Mars Pathfinder Spacecraft Landed on Spillover Flood Deposits from an Early Mars Inland Sea
2019
- Interpreting historical, botanical, and geological evidence to aid preparations for future floods
2018
- A possible anorthositic continent of early Mars and the role of planetary size for the inception of Earth-like life
2018
- Hydraulic modeling of megaflooding using terrestrial and Martian DEMs
2018
- Tip- or Rollover protection mechanisms for planetary rovers enabling exploration of high-risk sites
2018
- Debates - Hypothesis Testing in Hydrology: Pursuing Certainty Versus Pursuing Uberty
2017
- 10Be dating of late-Pleistocene Megafloods and Cordilleran Ice Sheet Retreat in the Northwestern U.S
2017
- Damming the rivers of the Amazon Basin
2017
- Planetary protection and special regions on Mars—A suggestion for and updated definition
2016
- Groundwater flow induced collapse and flooding in Noctis Labyrinthus, Mars.
2016
- The Argyre region as a prime target for in situ astrobiological exploration of Mars.
2016
- Pleistocene megaflood landscapes of the Channeled Scabland
2016
- Tsunami waves extensively resurfaced the shorelines of a receding, early Martian ocean
2016
- Autonomous exploration of planetary lava tubes using a multi-rover framework
2015
- Rover Traverse-‐Optimizing Planner For Multi-‐Objective Deployment Scenarios
2015
- Fluvial geomorphology of earth-like planetary surfaces: A review
2015
- Geomorphic impacts of repeated tsunami waves in a coastal valley in northeastern Japan
2015
- New Insights into the Late Amazonian zonal shrinkage of the Martian south polar plateau
2015
- Planetary geomorphology: Some historical/analytical perspectives
2015
- Did the Martian outflow channels mostly form during the Amazonian Period?
2015
- Martian outflow channels: How did their source aquifers form, and why did they drain so rapidly?
2015
- A 2000-year natural record of magnitudes and frequencies for the largest upper Colorado River floods near Moab, Utah
2014
- Uniformitarianism, earth system science, and geology
2014
- A cold hydrological system in Gale crater, Mars
2014
- Evidence for Middle Amazonian catastrophic flooding and glaciation on Mar
2014
- Fluvial features on Titan: Insights from morphology and modeling
2013
- Mars evolution
2013
- Rethinking the fabric of geology: An introduction
2013
- Effects of obliquity and water vapor/trace gas greenhouses in the early martian climate
2013
- Sinuous rivers
2013
- Terrestrial analogs, planetary geology, and the nature of geological reasoning
2012
- Infiltration of Martian outflow channel floodwaters into lowland cavernous systems
2012
- Meteorites at Meridiani Planum provide evidence for significant amounts of surface and near-surface water on early Mars
2011
- Global planetary change and catastrophic earth-surface evolution: Implications for modern geomorphological research
2011
- Roles of methane and carbon dioxide in geological processes on Mars
2011
- A geomorphic analysis of Hale crater, Mars: The effects of impact into ice-rich crust
2011
- The role of weathering in the formation of bedrock valleys on Earth and Mars: A numerical modeling investigation
2011
- Holocene flood histories in south-western USA
2010
- Paleohydraulic reconstruction of the largest Glacial Lake Missoula draining(s)
2010
- Isotopically-depleted late Pleistocene groundwater in Columbia River Basalt aquifers: Evidence for recharge of glacial Lake Missoula floodwaters?
2010
- Foreword
2010
- Channeled scablands: A megaflood landscape
2010
- An analysis of sinuous ridges in the southern Argyre Planitia, Mars using HiRISE and CTX images and MOLA data
2009
- The channeled scabland: A retrospective
2009
- Claritas rise, Mars: Pre-Tharsis magmatism?
2009
- Megafloods and global paleoenvironmental change on Mars and Earth
2009
- Onboard classification of hyperspectral data on the Earth Observing One mission
2009
- Quaternary paleolake formation and cataclysmic flooding along the upper Yenisei River
2009
- New evidence for a magmatic influence on the origin of Valles Marineris, Mars
2009
- Charles S. Peirce and the Light of Nature
2009
- Planetary landscape systems: A limitless frontier
2008
- The Spokane Flood debates: Historical background and philosophical perspective
2008
- Greatest Floods and Largest Rivers
2008
- High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) observations of glacial and periglacial morphologies in the circum-Argyre Planitia highlands, Mars
2008
- Paleoflood hydrology: Origin, progress, prospects
2008
- Recent geological and hydrological activity on Mars: The Tharsis/Elysium corridor
2008
- Planetary science: Water cycling on Mars
2007
- Introduction
2007
- Tharsis superplume and the geological evolution of early Mars
2007
- Equatorial and midlatitude distribution of chlorine measured by Mars Odyssey GRS
2007
- Flood hazard science, policy, and values: A pragmatist stance
2007
- Cataclysmic Scabland flooding: Insights from a simple depth-averaged numerical model
2007
- Rock glaciers on Mars: Earth-based clues to Mars' recent paleoclimatic history
2007
- Bulk composition and early differentiation of Mars
2007
- Variations in K/Th on Mars
2007
- Evidence that floodwaters filled and overflowed Capri Chasma, Mars
2007
- Traits and evolution of the tharsis superplume, Mars
2007
- Geomorphological evidence for water on Mars
2006
- Autonomous detection of cryospheric change with hyperion on-board Earth Observing-1
2006
- An extraordinary period of low-magnitude floods coinciding with the Little Ice Age: Palaeoflood evidence from central and western India
2006
- Numerical simulations of large-scale cataclysmic floodwater: A simple depth-averaged model and an illustrative application
2006
- Monitoring active volcanism with the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment on EO-1
2006
- Palaeoflood hydrology in a global context
2006
- Water and the evolutionary geological history of Mars
2006
- Flood detection and monitoring with the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment onboard EO-1
2006
- Headward growth of chasmata by volatile outbursts, collapse, and drainage: Evidence from ganges chaos, Mars
2006
- Autonomous flood Sensorweb: Multi-sensor rapid response and early flood detection
2006
- An autonomous earth observing sensorweb
2005
- Planetary science: Picturing a recently active Mars
2005
- The role of arcuate ridges and gullies in the degradation of craters in the Newton Basin region of Mars
2005
- Prime candidate sites for astrobiological exploration through the hydrogeological history of Mars
2005
- Control of impact crater fracture systems on subsurface hydrology, ground subsidence, and collapse, Mars
2005
- Autonomous response in an autonomous earth observing sensorweb
2005
- The northwestern slope valleys (NSVs) region, Mars: A prime candidate site for the future exploration of Mars
2004
- Fluid dynamical implications of anastomosing slope streaks on Mars
2004
- Dynamics of unusual debris flows on Martian sand dunes
2004
- Tectonic histories between Alba Patera and Syria Planum, Mars
2004
- The EO-1 Autonomous Science Agent
2004
- Inhibition of carbonate synthesis in acidic oceans on early Mars
2004
- Ancient wet aeolian environments on Earth: Clues to presence of fossil/live microorganisms on Mars
2004
- Onboard autonomy on the Earth Observing One mission
2004
- Prime candidate sites for the astrobiological exploration of Mars according to its hydrogeological history
2004
- Palaeofloods and global change
2004
- Icy martian mysteries
2003
- Episodic flood inundations of the northern plains of Mars
2003
- Plan for living on a restless planet sets NASA's solid earth agenda
2003
- Sedimentary records of palaeofloods in the bedrock gorges of the Tapi and Narmada rivers, central India
2003
- High-energy megafloods: Planetary settings and sedimentary dynamics
2002
- Earth sciences. The study of superfloods
2002
- Coastal response to changes in sea level since the last 4500 BP on the east coast of Tamil Nadu, India
2002
- Influence of planetary dynamos in a possible early earth and mars parallel biogeological evolution
2002
- Tharsis-triggered flood inundations of the northern plains of Mars
2002
- Dark slope streaks on Mars: Are aqueous processes involved?
2002
- The study of superfloods
2002
- Ancient drainage basin of the Tharsis region, Mars: Potential source for outflow channel systems and putative oceans or paleolakes
2001
- Morphogenesis of antarctic paleosols: Martian analogue
2001
- Latent outflow activity for western Tharsis, Mars: Significant flood record exposed
2001
- Paleohydrology of flash floods in small desert watersheds in western Arizona
2001
- Thermokarst landforms and processes in Ares Vallis, Mars
2001
- Water and the martian landscape
2001
- Valley networks on Venus
2001
- Paleoshoreline geomorphology of Böön Tsagaan Nuur, Tsagaan Nuur and Orog Nuur: The Valley of Lakes, Mongolia
2001
- Re-examination of Bagnold's empirical bedload formulae
2000
- System of gigantic valleys northwest of Tharsis, Mars: Latent catastrophic flooding, northwest watershed, and implications for northern plains ocean
2000
- South American Paleohydrology: Future prospects and global perspective
2000
- 'Saving the appearances' of beach behavior
2000
- High-resolution holocene environmental changes in the Thar Desert, northwestern India
1999
- Presidential address: Geosemiosis
1999
- Flood estimation by combining gauged and paleo data
1998
- Catastrophism and uniformitarianism: logical roots and current relevance in geology
1998
- Hydrological understanding and societal action
1998
- Variable resolution topographic mapping of ancient fluvial landscapes in Australia
1998
- A high magnitude storm and flood in a hyperarid catchment, Nahal Zin, Negev Desert, Israel
1998
- Paleohydrology and flood geomorphology of Ares Vallis
1997
- Flood Hydrology and Geomorphology of Monsoon-dominated Rivers: The Indian Peninsula
1997
- A 2000-year palaeoflood record from Sakarghat on Narmada, central India
1997
- Palaeo and historical flood hydrology, Indian Peninsula
1996
- Evolutionary megageomorphology of the terrestrial planets
1996
- Discovering Earth's future in its past: Palaeohydrology and global environmental change
1996
- Changes in the magnitude and frequency of late Holocene monsoon floods on the Narmada River, central India
1996
- The pragmatic roots of American Quaternary geology and geomorphology
1996
- Multi-channel patterns of bedrock rivers: An example from the central Narmada basin, India
1996
- Magnitude and frequency of Holocene palaeofloods in the southwestern United States: a review and discussion of implications
1996
- Channels in the solar system
1996
- Global paleohydrological change
1995
- Large-scale spatial patterns in topography at Alpha Regio, Venus
1995
- Global continental palaeohydrology
1995
- Understanding India's Rivers: late Quaternary palaeofloods, hazard assessment and global change
1995
- Sedimentary records of late Holocene floods along the Fitzroy and Margaret Rivers, Western Australia
1994
- Soviet and post-soviet science [1]
1994
- Plains Tectonism on Venus: Inferences from Canali Longitudinal Profiles
1994
- Geomorphic and hydrologic aspects of monsoon floods on the Narmada and Tapi Rivers in central India
1994
- Geomorphological understanding of floods
1994
- Spatial variability of small-basin paleoflood magnitudes for a southeastern Arizona mountain range
1994
- Surface Property Variations in Venusian Fluidized Ejecta Blanket Craters
1994
- Meander properties of Venusian channels
1994
- Controls on bedrock channel incision along Nahal Paran, Israel
1994
- Sedimentary effects of cataclysmic late Pleistocene glacial outburst flooding, Altay Mountains, Siberia
1993
- Paleohydrology of late pleistocene superflooding, Altay Mountains, Siberia
1993
- Learning from the past
1993
- Venusian Channels and Valleys: Distribution and Volcanological Implications
1993
- Extraterrestrial geomorphology: science and philosophy of Earthlike planetary landscapes
1993
- Paleoflood evidence for a natural upper bound to flood magnitudes in the Colorado River basin
1993
- The Volcanology of Venera and VEGA Landing Sites and the Geochemistry of Venus
1993
- A 5000-year record of extreme floods and climate change in the Southwestern United States
1993
- Channels and valley networks
1992
- Channels and valleys on Venus: preliminary analysis of Magellan data
1992
- Canali-type channels on venus: Some genetic constraints
1992
- Magnitudes and implications of peak discharges from glacial Lake Missoula
1992
- Erratum: Ancient oceans, ice sheets and the hydrological cycle on Mars (Nature (1991) 352 (589-594))
1991
- The reenchantment of geomorphology
1991
- A bright future for old flows
1991
- Ancient oceans, ice sheets and the hydrological cycle on Mars
1991
- Magellan: Initial analysis of Venus surface modification
1991
- Paleoflood hydrology and design decision for high-risk projects
1990
- Large floods and climate change in the southwestern United States
1990
- Application of geological information to Arizona flood hazard assessment
1990
- Origin and evolution of valleys on Martian volcanoes
1990
- Spring sapping and valley network development
1990
- Fluvial valleys and martian palaeoclimates
1989
- Paleohydrologic reconstruction of flood frequency on the Escalante River, south-central Utah
1988
- History, palaeochannels and palaeofloods of the Finke River, central Australia
1988
- Flood geomorphology and palaeohydrology of bedrock rivers
1988
- Geological fluvial geomorphology
1988
- Flood geomorphology
1988
- Flood erosion
1988
- Cataclysmic processes in geomorphological systems
1988
- Paleoflood analysis using slackwater deposits
1988
- Flood sedimentation in bedrock fluvial systems
1988
- Surface water hydrology: historical and paleoflood information flood frequency analyses.
1987
- Columbia and Snake River Plains
1987
- Paleoflood hydrologic analysis at ungaged sites, central and northern Australia.
1987
- Paleoflood hydrology and design applications.
1987
- Paleoflood hydrology and extraordinary flood events
1987
- Flood power
1987
- Flood geomorphology of the Katherine Gorge, Northern Territory, Australia.
1987
- PALAEOFLOOD HYDROLOGY OF THE SALT RIVER, ARIZONA.
1987
- Paleohydrology of pool-and-riffle pattern development: Boulder Creek, Utah.
1986
- Relief form on planets.
1985
- Ancient hot springs on Mars: Origins and paleoenvironmental significance of small Martian valleys
1985
- Global megageomorphology: workshop summary, conclusions and recommendations.
1985
- Cataclysmic Late pleistocene flooding from glacial Lake Missoula: A review
1985
- Field trip: geomorphic surfaces in the Tucson Basin, Arizona.
1985
- Models of fluvial activity on Mars.
1985
- Radiocarbon dating of flood events, Katherine Gorge, Northern Territory, Australia.
1985
- Reconstructing paleoflood hydrology with slackwater deposits: Verde River, Arizona.
1985
- Planetary geomorphology.
1984
- Desert palaeofloods in central Australia
1983
- Late-Pleistocene fluvial systems.
1983
- Channels and valleys on Mars
1983
- PALEOFLOOD HYDROLOGIC TECHNIQUES FOR THE EXTENSION OF STREAMFLOW RECORDS.
1983
- Paleoflood hydrologic analysis from slack-water deposits.
1983
- Palaeohydrologic analysis of Holocene flood slack-water sediments.
1983
- Paleoflood hydrology
1982
- Slack-water deposits: a geomorphic technique for the interpretation of fluvial paleohydrology.
1982
- PALEOHYDROLOGY OF SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.
1982
- The geomorphology of Mars.
1981
- A preliminary assessment of the fluid erosional processes that shaped the Martian outflow channels.
1980
- Morphological mapping of Martian outflow channels.
1980
- Morphometry of streamlined forms in terrestrial and Martian channels.
1980
- Long-term flood frequency analysis using geological data ( Pecos River Texas).
1979
- South American river morphology and hydrology.
1979
- New evidence for pre-Wisconsin flooding in the channeled scabland of eastern Washington
1978
- The spokane flood controversy and the martian outflow channels
1978
- Geomorphic response of central Texas stream channels to catastrophic rainfall and runoff.
1977
- Stream-channel response to floods, with examples from central Texas
1977
- Hydrogeomorphic methods for the regional evaluation of flood hazards
1976
- MORPHOMETRY AND FLOODS IN SMALL DRAINAGE BASINS SUBJECT TO DIVERSE HYDROGEOMORPHIC CONTROLS.
1976
- Competence of rivers to transport coarse bedload material
1975
- Urban geology of boulder, colorado: A progress report
1975
- HYDROGEOMORPHIC APPROACH TO EVALUATING FLOOD POTENTIAL IN CENTRAL TEXAS FROM ORBITAL AND SUBORBITAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY.
1974
- Paleohydraulic interpretation of Quaternary alluvium near Golden, Colorado
1974
- Erosion by catastrophic floods on Mars and Earth
1974