Scott Baker (marine biologist)
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C. Scott Baker | |
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| Born | August 10, 1954 |
| Education | BA 1977; PhD 1985 |
| Alma mater | New College of Florida, University of Hawaii at Manoa |
| Occupation(s) | conservation geneticist, molecular ecologist |
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Scott Baker (C. Scott Baker) is Associate Director of the Marine Mammal Institute,[2] Oregon State University, in Newport, Oregon, and Adjunct Professor of Molecular Ecology and Evolution in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Baker has been involved in the study of whales or dolphins since he was an undergraduate at New College of Florida (graduated 1977), continuing with his PhD research on humpback whales at the University of Hawaii (completed 1985) and his postdoctoral training in molecular genetics at the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute (1987-88). He has acted as a delegate to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission for New Zealand or the USA since 1994 and is a member of the Cetacean Specialist Group of the IUCN. Baker's research includes both molecular and demographic approaches to the basic and applied investigation of evolutionary pattern and process in whales and dolphins, particularly their abundance, population structure, genetic diversity and systematic relationships.
In 1993, Baker conducted the first molecular genetic surveys of whale products sold in Japanese markets and expanded these surveys to markets in South Korea in 1994[3][4]. The methods for molecular identification of whales, dolphins and porpoises used in these surveys have been implemented in the web-based program ''DNA-Surveillance'' [5][6]. In 2001, Baker was awarded the Bronze Medal in Science and Technology from the Royal Society of New Zealand for his work in applied conservation genetics[7].
In 2007, Baker was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Heredity.[8], the journal of the American Genetic Association.
Recent Works
- scientific advisor and role in award winning, feature-length documentary, "The Cove (film)"[9]
- scientific advisor and role in National Geographic Channel documentary, "Kingdom of the Blue Whale" [10]
References
- ^ http://mmi.oregonstate.edu/c-scott-baker
- ^ http://mmi.oregonstate.edu/home
- ^ Baker, C. S. and Palumbi, S. R. (1994). Which whales are hunted? A molecular genetic approach to monitoring whaling. Science 265: 1538-1539.
- ^ Baker, C. S., Cipriano, F. and Palumbi, S. R. (1996). Molecular genetic identification of whale and dolphin products from commercial markets in Korea and Japan. Molecular Ecology 5: 671-685.
- ^ http://www.dna-surveillance.auckland.ac.nz/
- ^ Ross, H. A., Lento, G. M., Dalebout, M. L., Goode, M., McLaren, P., Rodrigo, A. G., Lavery, S. and Baker, C. S. (2003). DNA surveillance: web-based molecular identification of whales, dolphins and porpoises. Journal of Heredity 94(2): 111-114.
- ^ http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/Site/about/governance/yearbooks/2001/awards.aspx
- ^ http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/
- ^ http://www.thecovemovie.com/the_team/the-team.htm
- ^ http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/kingdom-of-the-blue-whale-3302/