Dr. Robert J. Baker

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  Just before the Christmas break of my senior year I happened to be talking to a new faculty member at Texas Tech University (Robert Baker) who asked what I was going to do when I graduated.I planned to move to Miami and be an airplane mechanic - Bob suggested I try graduate school and I completed an M.S. with him after two years of extensive field work.

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  Robert J. Baker

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  Late Thursday afternoon, Robert Baker, Faculty Athletics Representative for Texas Tech University issued this statement:

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  Robert BakerAmerican Scientist Online
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  Robert J. Baker is Horn Professor of Biological Sciences and director of the Natural Sciences Research Laboratory at Texas Tech.His research program evalulates molecular variations in organisms exposed to Chernobyl radiation.He is one of the world's leading authorities on the genetic variation and phylogenetics of bat species.Address: Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409,3131.Internet: robert.baker@ttu.edu

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  - Robert Baker, Horn Professor in biological sciences and director of the Natural Science Research Laboratory at the Museum of Texas Tech University.

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  ROBERT BAKER1996 Outstanding Fisheries Biologist
  
  Robert Baker was honored as the Arkansas Chapter AFS Outstanding Fisheries Biologist for 1996.
  
  Bob was a District Fisheries Biologist for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission for 34 years.During his career , he played a key role in developing many aspects of fisheries management techniques and tactics , fish culture facilities , fisheries research , fishing regulations , and boating access as we know them in Arkansas today.Following is a partial list of Bob's accomplishments : He participated in the first extensive ( qualitative ) statewide survey of fish populations in streams.He was instrumental in the establishment of the internationally recognized trout fishery in Bull Shoals / Norfork Tailwaters.He constructed the first nursery pond in Arkansas on Norfork Lake.He helped establish the first striped bass fisheries in Arkansas.He pioneered net pen fish culture in this state.With others , he conducted the first intensive creel survey of the Bull Shoals / Norfork Tailwaters trout fisheries.Many of Bob's accomplishments will remain as permanent tributes to a dedicated and practical biologist , and will continue to benefit anglers and Arkansas' fisheries resources far into the future.

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  Published on: 6/7/2007    Last Visited: 6/7/2007  

  Biologist Robert J. Baker of Texas Tech University was one of the first Western scientists to report that Chernobyl had become a wildlife haven.He says the mice and other rodents he has studied at Chernobyl since the early 1990s have shown remarkable tolerance for elevated radiation levels.
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  In the Journal of Mammology in 1996, Baker and his colleagues reported that the disaster had not reduced either the diversity or abundance of a dozen species of rodents including mice, shrews, rats and weasels near the Chernobyl plant.
  
  "Our studies show that a dynamic ecosystem is present in even the most radioactive habitats," they wrote.
  
  Baker's group reported sighting red fox, gray wolf, moose, river otter, roe deer, Russian wild boar and brown hare within a six-mile radius of the plant the most heavily contaminated area.
  
  Genetic tests showed Chernobyl's animals suffered some damage to their DNA, Baker and his colleagues reported.
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  Biologist Robert J. Baker of Texas Tech University was one of the first Western scientists to report that Chernobyl had become a wildlife haven.He says the mice and other rodents he has studied at Chernobyl since the early 1990s have shown remarkable tolerance for elevated radiation levels.
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  In the Journal of Mammology in 1996, Baker and his colleagues reported that the disaster had not reduced either the diversity or abundance of a dozen species of rodents including mice, shrews, rats and weasels near the Chernobyl plant.
  
  "Our studies show that a dynamic ecosystem is present in even the most radioactive habitats," they wrote.
  
  Baker's group reported sighting red fox, gray wolf, moose, river otter, roe deer, Russian wild boar and brown hare within a six-mile radius of the plant the most heavily contaminated area.
  
  Genetic tests showed Chernobyl's animals suffered some damage to their DNA, Baker and his colleagues reported.But they said overall it didn't seem to hurt wildlife populations.
  
  "The resulting environment created by the Chernobyl disaster is better for animals," Baker told the Associated Press in a phone interview.
  
  Critics point out that Baker's work has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, which some view as pro-nuclear.Baker defended the government connection, saying, "We have never been asked to come up with any specific conclusions, just do honest work."He also said his work has been peer-reviewed.

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  Thank you to Dr. Robert Baker of Texas Tech University for sharing these with us.

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  "The benefit of excluding humans from this highly contaminated ecosystem appears to outweigh significantly any negative cost associated with Chernobyl radiation," said Robert Baker, a biologist at Texas Tech University, who has made more than a dozen scientific excursions into the zone.Baker believes that the diversity of animals and plants within the zone is what could be reasonably expected to be seen in a nature park dedicated to conservation.

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  Robert Baker of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and a member of Chesser's group, is presenting startling evidence that Chernobyl field mice are undergoing an extremely rapid rate of evolution.Indeed, he says the amount of evolutionary change in some animal species since the accident is greater than would normally occur in 10 million years.
  
  Life altering.

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