The Summer of Tsunami by S. Campbell Williams

Among his honors are Foreign Membership in the Polish Academy of Sciences (1994) Honorary Fellowship in the European Union of Geosciences (1999) the David Linton Award of the British Society for Geomorphology (1995) the Distinguished Scientist Award (2002) and Distinguished Career Award (2010), both from The Geological Society of America Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division the Inaugural International Lectureship of the Geological Society of America (2012-2013), a Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Fellowship (1979-1880) an Indo-American Fellowship (1987-1988) and professional society Fellowships respectively in the American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Geological Society of America, and the British Society for Geomorphology. Professor Baker has been President of the Geological Society of America (1998), Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Section on Geology and Geography (1992-2009), and President of the International Union for Quaternary Research Commission on Global Continental Paleohydrology (1995-99). and central Asia history/philosophy of Earth and planetary sciences and the interface of environmental science with public policy. His research has concerned paleoflood hydrology (a field of study that he defined in the 1970s and 1980s) flood geomorphology channels, valleys, and geomorphic features on Mars and Venus catastrophic Pleistocene megaflooding in the northwestern U.S.

From 1996-2004 he was the Department Head of the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona.īaker has authored or co-authored more than 1000 scientific contributions, including 18 books, 400 research articles and chapters, more than 485 abstracts and short research reports (nearly all of them associated with papers that were presented at professional meetings, conferences, and workshops), 34 extended technical reports 42 encyclopedia articles 39 published book reviews plus guidebook contributions and various other writings, including popular works in science.

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. 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. After working as a hydrologist and geophysicist for the U.S. in Geology from the University of Colorado in 1971. in Geology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1967 and a Ph.D. Baker is Regents’ Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources, Geosciences, and Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona.

The Summer of Tsunami by S. Campbell Williams