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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.

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Courses
  • GH
    Geologic Hazards

  • GQG
    Glacial and Quaternary Geology

  • EOWH
    Earth: Our Watery Home

Grants
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    Characterization of Tsunami Features and Environments throughout The Martian Northern Plains

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $61.0K
    Active
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    Paleoflood Hydrology of the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2019

    $57.6K
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    Paleoflood Hydrology of the Colorado River System

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2016

    $76.6K
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    Geomorphic Investigations of Martian Outflow Channels

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2013

    $36.6K
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    Obliquity-Controlled Water Vapor/Trace Gas Feedback in the Martian Greenhouse Cycle

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2011

    $74.8K
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    RAPID:Flow Dynamics/Morphological Impacts of March 11 Tohoku Tsunami, Japan

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2011

    $28.7K
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    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

  • 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

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