How Investigating the Ice Age Floods Helped Advance Geological Understanding of Ancient Mars
A few billion years ago the planet Mars was somewhat similar in its surface environmental conditions to the Ice Age Earth. At that time Mars had lakes, flowing rivers, glaciers, and even a kind of planetary ocean, the Ocean Borealis. This relatively recent understanding of Ancient Mars was partly achieved because of geological studies of the ice age floods that created the Channeled Scablands landscape of eastern Washington. This talk will focus Dr Baker’s personal experience with the relevant geological investigations and discoveries of the past 55 years
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Victor R. Baker is Regents Professor of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Geosciences and Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona.
He received a B.S. in Geology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1967 and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Colorado in 1971. He was on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin from 1971-1981, advancing to the rank of Full Professor. In 1981 he moved to the Departments of Geosciences & Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona. From 1996-2004 he was the Department Head of the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, which is now the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, where he is currently appointed.