Professor Andy Baker
1990-1993 Bristol University, UK. PhD, entitled "Speleothem Growth Rate and Palaeoclimate"
1987-1990 Bristol University, UK. BSc (Hons) degree in Geographical Science.
2010- Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Australia
2003-2010 Reader, then Professor of Water Science, University of Birmingham, UK
1998-2003 Senior Lecturer, Physical Geography, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
1993-1998 Lecturer, Physical Geography, University of Exeter, UK
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- Teaching and Supervision
Since 2020::
Baker, A. Caves and their stalagmites: linking climate to groundwater recharge. ARC Laureate Fellowship 2024
Baker, A., Shanafield, M., Timms, W., Melo Zurita, M. and Andersen, M.S., 2022. National Groundwater Observation System (NGROS). ARC LIEF 2022
Baker, Treble P. and McDonough, L. Reconstructing Australia's fire history from cave stalagmites. Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2020.
2024 Fellow, Royal Society of New South Wales
2023 Clarke Medal for Geology, Royal Society of New South Wales
2021 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
2021 Fellow, Australasian Cave and Karst Management Association
2019 Outstanding Associate Editor, Water Research.
2015 Fred L. and Frances J. Oliver Lectureship in Texas Hydrology and Water Resources.
2009 Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Studies, Durham University
2003 Philip Leverhulme Prize, Leverhulme Trust
1999 Millennium Awards Fellow, UK Millennium Commission
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My current media work includes ABC radio and ABC television news; specialist and popular national and regional print media, and regional radio including ABC local radio. I write for The Conversation. My The Conversation article ‘The world’s biggest source of freshwater is beneath your feet’ (published 1st March 2016) was selected in the 2016 The Conversation Yearbook for the top articles of the year. I write for popular science journals, trade journals and caving society journals and in 2025-206 I am an American Geophysical Union Distinguished Lecturer. I have a personal website at https://andy-baker.org/. My previous media and outreach includes BBC documentaries, TV news, radio and print and an interactive exhibit at a tourist cave (Stump Cross Caverns, UK) that resulted in a Millennium Awards Fellowship for the ‘project which contributed to [awardees] personal skills and development and made a real and lasting difference to the lives in their community’.
My Research Supervision
Akhilesh Kumar (with Adrian Fisher, Wendy Timms)
Danyang Sun (with Martin Andersen, Liza McDonough)
Jocelyn McGrade (with Pauline Treble, Martin Andersen)
Sarata Darboe (with Andreas Hartmann, Fiona Johnson)
Hyunsoo Seo (with Ellen Corrick, Martin Andersen)
Carl Wang (with Kashif Mahmud, Ellen Corrick, Craig Roberts)
Muqing Dong (Martin Andersen lead supervisor)