Policy-Related Science Assessment Reports:

1.      Citizens League Water Policy Committee.  2009. To the Source: Moving Minnesota’s Water Management Upstream.  Citizens League of Minnesota, St. Paul.  Report at: http://www.citizensleague.org/publications/reports/482.RPT.To%20the%20Source.pdf

2.     ACERP 1995 (Committee chair).  Human Health: Part 4 of the Final Report of the Arizona Comparative Environmental Risk Project.  Human Health Committee of the Arizona Comparative Risk Project (Governor’s appointees), Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.  215 pp.

3.     NAPAP. 1991. 1990 Integrated Assessment: Report to Congress.  (Primary Technical Contributor” to the Aquatic Assessment chapter). Prepared by NAPAP Integrated Task Group for the U.S. Congress.  NAPAP, 722 Jackson Place, Washington, D.C.

4.     Baker, L.A., P.R. Kaufmann, A.T. Herlihy, and J.M. Eilers.  1990.  Current Acid-Base Status of Surface Waters. State-of-Science Report #9, National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, 722 Jackson Place, Washington, DC. 367 pp.

 
Journal Articles and Book Chapters (select examples from 2000 to present)
1.        Baker, L. 2009. New directions in management of urban pollution.  In: Baker, L. (ed), The Water Environment of Cities, Springer Science, Lowell, MA.
2.        Baker, L., B. Wilson, D. Fulton and B. Horgan.  2008.  Disproportionality as a framework to target nutrient reduction from urban landscapes (invited paper).  Cities and the Environment 1(2): Article 7.
3.     Baker, L.A. 2007. Symposium: Effect of human choice on characteristics of urban ecosystems. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 88(4): 404-409.
5.     Hartzheim, P., L. Baker, K. Nelson, S. Hobbie, J. King. In prep.  C, N and P fluxes through 35 households in Falcon Heights, Minneosota.
6.     Baker, L.A., J. Schussler, and S. Snyder. 2008. Drivers of changes in lake clarity.  J. Lake and Reservoir Management 24: 30-40. 
7.     Baker, L. A. and P.L. Brezonik. 2007. Using whole-system mass balances to craft novel approaches for pollution reduction: examples at scales from households to urban regions. In: Cities of the Future: Towards Integrated Sustainable Water and Landscape Management, edited by V. Novotny and P. Brown, IWA Publishing, London.
8.     Schussler, J., L. Baker and H. Chester-Jones. 2007. Whole-system phosphorus model for analysis of P management in watersheds. Ecological Engineering 29:294-304.
9.     Savanick, S., L.A. Baker, J. Perry. 2007. Nitrogen budget of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus.  Urban Ecosystems 10: 119-137.
10.  Xu, Y., L. Baker, and P. Johnson. 2007. Effect of land use changes on temporal trends in groundwater nitrate concentrations in and around Phoenix, Arizona, Ground Water 27(2): 49-56.
11. Baker, L.A., P. Hartzheim, S. Hobbie, K. Nelson, J. King. 2007.  Influence of consumption choices on C, N and P fluxes through households. Urban Ecosystems 10:97-117.
12. Kaye, J., P. Groffman, N. Grimm, L. Baker, and R. Pouyat. 2006.  A distinct urban biogeochemistry?  Trends in Research in Ecology and Evolution 4: 192-199.
13. Baker, L. Perils and pleasures of multidisciplinary research. 2006. Urban Ecosystems 9: 45-47.
14. Baker, L.A., P. Westerhoff, M. Sommerfeld. 2006 An adaptive management strategy using multiple barriers to control tastes and odors.  J. American Water Works Association 98 (6): 113-126.
15. Westerhoff, P., L. Baker, M. Sommerfeld. 2005. Degradation of algal metabolites (2-methylisoborneol and geosmin) in semi-arid region reservoirs.  Water Research 39:4899-4912.
18. Baker, L.A., T. Brazel, and P. Westerhoff.  2004. Environmental consequences of rapid urbanization in warm, arid lands: case study of Phoenix, Arizona (USA). In: The Sustainable City III, edited by N. Marchettini, C. Brebbia, E. Tiezzi, and L.C. Wadhwa, Advances in Architecture Series, WIT Press, Boston.
20. Hu, Q., M. Sommerfeld, L.A. Baker, and P. Westerhoff.  2003. Canal wall brushing - a control measure for taste and odor problems in drinking water supplies in arid environments. J. Water Supply: Research and Technology – Aqua 52:8: 545-554.
21. Baker, L.A., T. Brazel, N. Selovar, C. Martin, F. Steiner, N. McIntyre, A. Nelson, L. Musacchio. 2002. Urbanization and warming of Phoenix (Arizona, USA): Impacts, Feedbacks, and Mitigation. Urban Ecosystems 6: 183-203.
22. Nyguen, My Lin, L. Baker, and P. Westerhoff.  2002. Sources of DOC and DBP precursors in western U.S. watersheds and reservoirs.  J. Am. Water Works Assoc. 94(5): 98-112.
23. Baker, L.A., D. Hope, Y. Xu, Lisa Lauver,  J. Edmonds. 2001a.  Nitrogen mass balance for the Central Arizona-Phoenix ecosystem. Ecosystems 4(6): 582-602.
25. Grimm, N.B., L.A. Baker, and D. Hope. 2001. An ecosystem approach to understanding cities: familiar foundations and uncharted frontiers. In Understanding Urban Ecosystems: A New Frontier for Science and Education, edited by A.R. Berkowitz, C.H. Nilon, and K.S. Hollweg, Springer-Verlag, pp. 94-114.
26. Gerke, S., L. Baker, Y. Xu.  2001. Sequential model of nitrogen transformations in a treatment wetland receiving lagoon effluent.  Water Research 35 (16): 3857-3866.
27. Urban, N.R., C.J. Sampson, P.L. Brezonik, and L.A. Baker. 2001. Sulfur cycling in the water column of Little Rock Lake, Wisconsin. Biogeochem. 52: 41-77.
28. Baker, L.A., and P. Westerhoff . 2000. Chapter 6: Low-tech system to treat and reuse wastewater on the U.S.-Mexican border. In: Westerhoff, P. (ed.). Water Issues on the U.S.-Mexico Border, San Diego: San Diego State University Press.
29. Whitmer, S., and L. Baker.  2000. Loss of bromide in a wetland tracer experiment.  J. Environmental Quality 29: 2042-2045.
30. Lauver, L., and L. Baker.  2000. Mass balance for wastewater nitrogen in the Central Arizona-Phoenix ecosystem.  Water Research  34: 2754-2760
31. Pinney, M., P. Westerhoff, L. Baker. 2000. Transformations of dissolved organic carbon through constructed wetlands.  Water Research 34: 1897-1911.
32. Farnsworth-Lee, L., and L.A. Baker.  2000. Conceptual model of aquatic plant decay and ammonia toxicity for shallow lakes.  J. Env. Eng. (ASCE), 126(3): 199-207.