Professor
Joel
Baker
holds
the
Port
of
Tacoma
Chair
in
Environmental
Science
at
the
University
of
Washington
Tacoma,
is
the
Science
Director
of
the
Center
for
Urban
Waters
in
Tacoma,
and
is
the
Director
of
the
Puget
Sound
Institute.
He
earned
a
B.S.
degree
in
Environmental
Chemistry
from
SUNY
Syracuse
and
M.S.
and
Ph.D.
degrees
in
Civil
and
Environmental
Engineering
from
the
University
of
Minnesota.
Dr.
Baker's
research
interests
center
about
the
transport
of
organic
contaminants
in
the
environment,
specifically
atmospheric
transport
and
deposition,
aerosol
chemistry,
the
dynamics
of
contaminant
transport
in
estuaries,
and
modeling
the
exposure
and
transfer
of
chemicals
in
aquatic
food
webs.
He
has
co—authored
over
ninety
papers
on
contaminant
cycling
in
the
Great
Lakes,
the
Chesapeake
Bay
and
coastal
waters,
and
edited
Atmospheric
Deposition
of
Contaminants
to
the
Great
Lakes
and
Coastal
Waters
(SETAC
Press,
1997).
He
was
the
lead
author
on
a
scientific
review
of
PCBs
in
the
Hudson
River,
a
contributing
author
to
the
Pew
Oceans
Commission
report
Marine
Pollution
in
the
United
States,
and
a
member
of
the
NRC's
Committee
on
Oil
in
the
Sea,
chaired
the
New
York
Harbor
Model
Evaluation
Group,
advised
the
European
Commission
on
water
quality
modeling,
and
served
on
the
Board
of
Directors
of
the
Society
of
Environmental
Toxicology
and
Chemistry.
Dr.
Baker
is
an
ex
officio
member
of
the
Puget
Sound
Partnership
Science
Panel,
which
he
chaired
from
2007—2009.
In
2010,
he
was
awarded
the
Conservation
Research
Award
by
the
Seattle
Aquarium
Society.