Michelle Baker

Publications | Abstracts

• Van Miegroet, H., Boettinger, J.L, Baker, M.A, (2006). Soil organic carbon quality in wildland soils: What is it and why is it important?. 2006 Agronomy Abstracts (CD)
• Van Miegroet, H., Boettinger, J.L, Baker, M.A, (2004). Potential sensitivity of soil carbon in semi-arid forest-rangeland soils to climate change. 2004 Agronomy Abstracts (CD)
• Van Miegroet, H., Boettinger, J.L, Baker, M.A, (2003). Differences in stability of soil organic carbon in semi-arid rangeland-forest mosaics in Northern Utah, USA.
• Van Miegroet, H., Boettinger, J.L, Baker, M.A, Nielsen, J., (2003). Soil carbon distribution and quality in seasonally dry rangeland -forest mosaics in the Intermountain West.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Book Chapters

• Baker, M.A, Webster, J.R, (2017). Chapter 30: Conservative and Reactive Solute Dynamics: Methods in Stream Ecology. Academic Press
• Baker, M.A, Arp, C.D, Goodman, K.J, Marcarelli, A.M, Wurtsbaugh, W.A, (2016). Stream-lake interactions: influence on stream ecosystem functioning: Streams in a Changing Environment. Elsevier
• Baker, M.A, Dahm, C.N, Valett, H.M, (2000). Anoxia, anaerobic metabolism biogeochemistry of the stream water- ground water interface: Streams and Ground Waters. Academic Press
• Kinkead, J., Baker, M.A, (1994). Using Microteaching to Evaluate Teaching Assistants: Evaluating Teachers of Writing. Urbana: NCTE

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

• Wood, R.L, Stark, J.M, Aanderud, Z.T, Baker, M.A, Evaluation of nutrient assimilative capacity in waterfowl impoundments: the role of environmental stressors. Journal of Environmental Quality
• Wood, R.L, Baker, M.A, (2023). Assessing nutrient assimilation by wetland impoundments across environmental gradients. Wetlands, 43, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-023-01711-5
• E, K.J, Baker, M.A, (2022). Organic matter sources and composition in four watersheds with mixed land cover. Hydrobiologia, 849, 2663-2682. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-022-04884-y
• Spackman Jones, A., Aanderud, Z.T, Horsburgh, J.S, Eiriksson, D., Dastrup, D., Cox, C., Jones, S.B, Bowling, D.R, Carlisle, J., Carling, G.T, Baker, M.A, (2017). Designing and Implementing a Network for Sensing Water Quality and Hydrology Across Mountain to Urban Transitions. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), doi: 10.1111/1752-1688.12557
• Hall, S.J, Ogata, E.M, Baker, M.A, Ehleringer, J.R, Weintraub, S.R, Czimczik, C., Bowling, D.R, (2016). Convergence in nitrogen deposition and cryptic isotopic variation across urban and agricultural valleys in northern Utah. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 121:9, 2340-2355. doi: 10.1002/2016JG003354
• Brunson, M.W, Baker, M.A, (2016). Translational training for tomorrow's environmental scientists. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 6:2, 295-299. doi: DOI 10.1007/s13412-015-0333-x
• Hall, S.J, Baker, M.A, Jones, S.B, Stark, J.M, Bowling, D.R, (2016). Contrasting soil nitrogen dynamics across a montane meadow and urban lawn in a semi-arid watershed. Urban Ecosystems, doi: 10.1007/s11252-016-0538-0
• Hall, S.J, Weintraub, S.R, Eiriksson, D., Brooks, P.D, Baker, M.A, Bowen, G.J, Bowling, D.R, (2016). Stream nitrogen inputs reflect groundwater across a snowmelt-dominated montane to urban watershed. Environmental Science and Technology, 50, 1137-1146.
• Kelso, J.E, Baker, M.A, (2015). Filtering with a drill pump: an efficient and cost effective method to collect suspended sediment and filtrate. Journal of the American Water Resources Association
• Hall, S.J, Hale, R.L, Baker, M.A, Bowling, D.R, Ehleringer, J.R, (2015). Riparian plant isotopes reflect anthropogenic nitrogen perturbations: robust patterns across land use gradients. Ecosphere
• Hall, R.O, Tank, J.L, Baker, M.A, Rosi-Marshall, E.J, Hotchkiss, E.R, (2015). Metabolism, gas exchange, and carbon spiraling in rivers. Ecosystems
• Reisinger, A.J, Tank, J.L, Rosi-Marshall, E.J, Hall, R.O, Baker, M.A, (2015). The varying role of water column nutrient removal along river continua in contrasting landscapes. Biogeochemistry, 125, 115-131.
• Hale, R.L, Armstrong, A., Baker, M.A, Bedingfield, S., Betts, D., Buahin, C., Buchert, M., Crowl, T.A, Dupont, R.R, Ehleringer, J., Endter-Wada, J.L, Flint, C., Grant, J., Hinners, S., Horsburgh, J.S, Jackson-Smith, D., Jones, A.S, Licon, C., Null, S., Odame, A., Pataki, D.E, Rosenberg, D.E, Runburg, M., Stoker, P., Strong, C., (2015). iSAW: Integrating Structure, Actors, and Water to Study Socio-Hydro-Ecological Systems. Earth's Future/AGU , doi: 10.1002/2014EF000295
• Hotchkiss, E.R, Hall, R.O, Baker, M.A, Rosi-Marshall, E.J, Tank, J.L, (2014). Modeling priming effects on microbial consumption of dissolved organic carbon in rivers. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 119, doi: doi:10.1002/2013JG002599
• Hall, R.O, Baker, M.A, Rosi-Marshall, E.J, Tank, J.L, Newbold, J., (2013). Solute specific scaling of inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus uptake in streams. . Biogeosciences, doi: doi:10.5194/bg-10-1-2013
• Hall, R.O, Baker, M.A, Rosi-Marshall, E.J, Tank, J.L, (2013). Solute specific scaling of inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus uptake in stream. Biogeosciences Discussions, 10, 6671-6693. doi: doi:10.5194/bgd-10-6671-2013
• Epstein, D.M, Wurtsbaugh, W.A, Baker, M.A, (2012). Nitrogen partitioning and transport through a subalpine lake measured with an isotope tracer. Limnology and Oceanography, 57, 1503-1516.
• Washbourne, I.J, Crenshaw, C.L, Baker, M.A, (2011). Dissimilatory nitrate reduction pathways in an oligotrophic aquatic ecosystem: spatial and temporal trends. Aquatic Microbial Ecology , 65, 55-64. doi: doi:10/3354/ame01538
• Zarnetske, J.P, Haggerty, R., Wondzell, S.M, Baker, M.A, (2011). Dynamics of nitrate production and removal as a function of residence time in the hyporheic zone: a 15N tracer study. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, doi: doi:10.1029/2010JG001356
• Zarnetske, J.P, Haggerty, R.D, Wondzell, S.M, Baker, M.A, (2011). Labile dissolved organic carbon supply limits hyporheic denitrification.. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, doi: doi:10.1029/2011JG001730
• Goodman, K.J, Baker, M.A, Wurtsbaugh, W.A, (2011). Lakes as buffers of stream dissolved organic matter (DOM) variability: Temporal patterns of DOM characteristics in mountain stream-lake systems. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences
• Goodman, K.J, Baker, M.A, Wurtsbaugh, W.A, (2010). Mountain lakes increase stream cellulose decomposition potential. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 29, 521-529.
• Covino, T., McGlynn, B., Baker, M.A, (2010). Separating physical and biological nutrient retention and quantifying uptake kinetics from ambient to saturation in successive mountain stream reaches. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 115, G04010. doi: doi:10.1029/2009JG001263
• Baker, M.A, deGuzman, J., Ostermiller, J.D, (2009). Differences in nitrate uptake among benthic algal assemblages in a mountain stream. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 28, 24-33.
• Hall, R.O, Baker, M.A, Arp, C.D, Koch, B.J, (2009). Hydrologic control of nitrogen removal, storage and export in a mountain stream. Limnology and Oceanography, 54, 2128-2142.
• Biggs, M.A, Gooseff, M.N, Arp, C.D, Baker, M.A, (2009). Informing a stream transient storage model with two-storage zones to discriminate in-channel dead zones and hyporheic exchange. Water Resources Research, 45
• Goodman, K., Baker, M.A, Wurtsbaugh, W.A, (2009). Mountain lakes increase organic matter decomposition rates in streams. N. Am. Benthological Soc., 29, 521-529.
• Tank, J.L, Rosi-Marshall, E.J, Baker, M.A, Hall, R.O, (2008). Are rivers just big streams? Using a pulse method to measure nitrogen demand in a large river.. Ecology, 89, 2935-2945.
• Roethlisberger, J.D, Baker, M.A, Frost, P.C, (2008). Effects of periphyton stoichiometry on mayfly excretion rates and nutrient ratios. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 27, 497-508.
• Marcarelli, A.M, Baker, M.A, Wurtsbaugh, W.A, (2008). Is in-stream nitrogen fixation an important nitrogen source for benthic communities and steam ecosystems?. J. N. Am. Benthological Soc., 27, 186-211. doi: 10.1899/07-027.1
• Marcarelli, A.M, Baker, M.A, Wurtsbaugh, W.A, (2008). Is in-stream nitrogen fixation an important nitrogen source for benthic communities and stream ecosystems? . Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 27, 186-211.
• Vinson, M.R, Baker, M.A, (2008). Poor growth of rainbow trout (Oncorhynus mykiss) fed New Zealand mud snails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum). North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 28, 701-709.
• Arp, C.D, Baker, M.A, (2007). Discontinuities in stream nutrient uptake below lakes in mountain drainage networks. Limnology and Oceanography, 52, 1978-1990.
• Myers, w.K, Marcarelli, A.M, Arp, C.D, Baker, M.A, Wurtsbaugh, W.A, (2007). Disruptions of stream sediment size and stability by lakes affects periphyton biomass in mountain watersheds. J. N. Am. Benthological Soc., 26, 390-400.
• Myers, A.K, Marcarelli, A.M, Arp, C.D, Baker, M.A, Wurtsbaugh, W., (2007). Disruptions of stream sediment size and stability by lakes in mountain watersheds: potential effects on periphyton biomass. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 26, 234-245.
• Arp, C.D, Schmidt, J.C, Baker, M.A, Myers, A.K, (2007). Stream geomorphology in a mountain lake district: Sediment links, lake-modified hydraulics, and downstream lake effects. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 32, 525-543.
• Arp, C.D, Schmidt, J.C, Baker, M.A, Myers, A.K, (2007). Stream geomorphology in a mountain lake district: hydraulic geometry, sediment sources and sinks, and downstream lake effects.. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms , 32:4, 525-543 . doi: doi:10.1002/esp.1421
• Arp, C.D, Gooseff, M.N, Baker, M.A, Wurtsbaugh, W., (2006). Surface-water hydrodynamics and regimes of a small mountain stream-lake ecosystem. Journal of Hydrology, 329, 500-513.
• Arp, C.D, Gooseff, M.A, Baker, M.A, Wurtsbaugh, W.A, (2006). Surface-water hydrodynamics and regimes of a small mountain stream-lake ecosystem. Limnol. Oceanogr., 53, 2715-2718.
• Mendelson III, J.R, Brodie, Jr., E.D, Malone, J.M, Acevedo, M.E, Baker, M.A, Smatresk, N.J, Campbell, J.A, (2005). Amphibian chytridomycosis in Guatemala: Decline of a cloud-forest frog fauna. Revista en Biologia Tropical- Journal of Tropical Biology , 54, 991-1000.
• Wurtsbaugh, W.A, Baker, M.A, Gross, H.P, Brown, P.D, (2005). Lakes at nutrient "sources" for watersheds: A landscape analysis of the temporal flux of nitrogen through sub-alpine lakes and streams. Verh. Int. Ver. Limnol., 29:2, 645-649.
• van Miegroet, H., Boettinger, J.L, Baker, M.A, Nielsen, J., Evans, D., Stum, A., (2005). Soil carbon distribution and quality in a montane rangeland-forest mosaic in northern Utah. Forest Ecology and Management, 220, 284-299.
• Valett, H.M, Baker, M.A, Morrice, J.A, Crawford, C.S, Molles, M.C, Dahm, C.N, Moyer, D.L, Thibault, J.R, (2005). The flood pulse in a semi-arid riparian forest: metabolic and biogeochemical responses to inter-flood interval. Ecology, 86, 220-234.
• Van Miegroet, H., Boettinger, J.L, Baker, M.A, Nielsen, J., Evans, D., Stum, A., (2005). Soil carbon distribution and quality in a montane rangeland-forest mosaic in Northern Utah.. Forest Ecology and Management, 220, 284-299.
• Baker, M.A, Vervier, P., (2004). Hydrologic variability, organic matter supply, and denitrification in the Garonne River ecosystem. Freshwater Biology, 49, 181-190.
• Dahm, C.N, Baker, M.A, Moore, D.I, Thibault, J.R, (2003). Biogeochemistry of surface waters and alluvial ground waters in streams and rivers during drought. Freshwater Biology, 48, 1219-1231.
• Baker, M.A, (2003). Improving quantitative understanding using spreadsheet models. Ecology, 83, 3524-3525. *
• Vervier, P., Roques, L., Baker, M.A, Garabetian, F., Auriol, P., (2002). Biodegredation of dissolved free simple carbohydrates in surface, hyporheic and riparian waters of a large river. Archiv für Hydrobiologie , 153, 595-604.
• Baker, M.A, (2001). Ecology readings from the University of Wisconsin. Ecology, 82:1, 262. *
• Baker, M.A, Valett, H.M, Dahm, C.N, (2000). Organic carbon supply and metabolism in a near-stream groundwater ecosystem. Ecology, 81, 3133-3148.

In-House Journal

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Technical Reports

Research Reports

• Baker, M.A, Hochhalter, S.J, Lytle, E.J, (2009). Final Report: research to inform nutrient endpoints in Spring Creek, Utah.. Report to the Utah Division of Water Quality
• Baker, M.A, Hochhalter, S.J, Lytle, E.J, (2008). Research to inform nutrient endpoints in East Canyon Creek, Utah.. Report to the Utah Division of Water Quality
• Covich, A.P, Baker, M.A, Behneke, R., Blinn, D.W, Carter, L.M, Chambers, J., Crowl, T.A, Dobrowolski, J.P, Hawkins, C.P, Luecke, C., Miller, J., Poff, L.N, Rahel, F.J, Schmidt, J.C, Selby, S., Sheldon, A.L, Vinson, M., Wagner, F.H, (2003). Natural Ecosystems II- Aquatic Ecosystems: Rocky Mountain/Great Basin Regional Climate Change Assessment. Report for the U.S. Global Change Research Program

Other Reports

• Baker, M.A, Hochhalter, S.J, Lytle, E.J, (2008). Research to inform nutrient endpoints in East Canyon Creek, Utah. Report to the Utah Division of Water Quality

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

Bulletins

• Baker, M.A, (2000). Perspectives on graduate education: Experience in aquatic science. Bulletin of the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.