Central Plains Center for Bioassessment

Debbie Baker

CPCB Assistant Director & Informatics Specialist

Central Plains Center for BioAssessment

Contact Information

CPCB

Phone	785-864-1551
Fax	785-864-1534
Email
Office	41B Higuchi

Unit Affiliations

CPCB

Personal Website

http://www.cpcb.ku.edu/

Curriculum Vitae

Debbie Baker - CV (pdf)

Detail

Specialty

Informatics and aquatic ecology

Background

Debbie Baker earned an M.S. in wildlife biology from the University of Nebraska and a Master of Historical Administration and Museum Studies from the University of Kansas. She is responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of the CPCB, coordinating field activities, and developing databases of lake, stream, and wetland nutrient parameters and biocriteria for EPA Region 7.

Research Interests

Collection management of aquatic specimens, nutrient levels and bioassessment of waterbodies of the Central Plains.

Research

Impact assessment of the proposed Lawrence waste water treatment plant on the Wakarusa River: a long-term monitoring/assessment strategy.	Nov. 2013 - Oct. 2014	Wakarusa River
Post-Bank Stabilization Fish Monitoring on Cottonwood River	Oct. 2013 - Oct. 2014	Cottonwood River
Post-bank stabilization monitoring on the Neosho River – a fish survey.	March 2013 - June 2014	Neosho River
2013-2013 National River and Streams Assessment	Feb. 2013 - Dec. 2013	Missouri and Kansas Rivers
Asian Carp Distribution Study Using Environmental DNA (eDNA)	Oct. 2012 - Oct. 2013	Kansas and Missouri
eDNA sampling as a non-invasive monitoring tool for threatened and endangered species: Experimental studies using Topeka Shiners (Notropis topeka)	Sept. 2012 - Sept. 2013	NESA
National Lake Survey (2012)	Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2012	Kansas
Biological impairment in Kansas reservoirs and lotic ecosystems due to erosion and sediment	Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2012	Banner Creek, Centralia, and Atchison Lakes
Assessment of Sunflower Electric Power Corporation’s Great Bend Station selenium discharge on a tributary of Dry Walnut Creek	Jan. 2011 - Dec. 2011	Great Bend, KS
Jeffreys Energy Center Biomonitoring	Jan. 2008 - Dec. 2010	Lost Creek in Pottawatomie County Kansas
Assessing the Condition of USEPA Region 7's Large Tributaries of the Missouri River: A Probabilistic Design Approach	Jan. 2007 - Dec. 2010	Non-wadeable tributaries of the Missouri River
Monitoring Two Urban Streams in Johnson County, Kansas	Jan. 2008 - Dec. 2010	Johnson County
Identification of Macroinvertebrates for Fort Riley Military Base	April 2010 - June 2010	Northeastern Kansas
Assessment of Floodplain Wetlands of the Lower Missouri River Using an EMAP Study Approach, Phase II: Verification of Rapid Assessment Tools	Jan. 2008 - Dec. 2009	Lower Missouri River Floodplain from Sioux City, IA to St. Louis, MO
National Rivers and Streams Assessment	Jan. 2008 - Dec. 2009	Rivers in Missouri
Determining the Utility and Adaptability of Remote Sensing in Monitoring and Assessing Reservoir Eutrophication and Turbidity for TMDL Assessments	Jan. 2008 - Dec. 2009	Clinton, Hilsdale, Centralia, and Louisburg-Middle Creek Lakes in eastern Kansas
Assessment of Selenium Levels in the Solomon River in Southwestern Kansas (Kansas Department of Health and Environment)	Jan. 2007 - Jan. 2009	Solomon River
Developing Regional Nutrient Benchmarks for Streams and Wetlands of the Central Plains	Jan. 2008 - Dec. 2008	Central Plains
Database Development for Definition and Assessment of Nutrient Levels and their Biological Effects in the Missouri River	Jan. 2007 - Dec. 2008	Missouri River
EMAP-Great Rivers Reference Condition Research on the Missouri River in Kansas	Jan. 2006 - Dec. 2008	Missouri River along the Kansas border
EMAP Lake Survey (2007)	Jan. 2007 - Dec. 2007	Nebraska and Kansas
Continuation of Nutrient Criteria Efforts in USEPA Region 7: Documenting Lake and Stream Analyses and Assembling a Wetland Database	Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2007	Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri
Developing Regional Nutrient Criteria for Wetlands of the Central Plains Region	Oct. 2005 - Sept. 2007	Central Plains
Identification and Characterization of Reference Conditions of Wadeable Streams within USEPA Region 7 Using Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) methodology	Jan. 2005 - Dec. 2006	Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska
Defining Relationships among Indicators of Sediment, Erosion and Ecosystem Health in Low Gradient Streams	Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2006	Central Plains
Determination of Regional Reference Conditions, Tiered Aquatic Life Applications and Inter-Regional Calibration of Community Assessment Methods	Jan. 2003 - Dec. 2006	Central Plains

Maps

CPCB Sampling Sites

April 6, 2010

Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri

Published Works

Baker, D., R. Everhart, D. Huggins, L. Bennett, A. Blackwood. 2014. Biological impairment in three Kansas reservoirs and associated lotic ecosystems due to sediment and nutrients. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS 178:39.

Martinko, E. A., J. deNoyelles, K. Bosnak, M. Jakubauskas, D. Huggins, J. Kastens, Apollonia Shreders, D. Baker, A. Blackwood, S. Campbell, Chrisopher Rogers. 2014. Atlas of Kansas Lakes: A resource for communities, policy makers and planners. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS 242.

Huggins, D., S. Tammareddi, D. Baker. 2012. Assessment of the Great Bend Station (Sunflower Electric Power Corporation) Selenium Discharge on a Tributary of Dry Walnut Creek (Barton Co., KS). Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS Report No. 172:44 pp.

Estimating historic biological integrity in wadeable streams of the Central Plains – a disturbance gradient approach. Baker and Huggins. 2010 Kansas Natural Resources Conference. Wichita, KS.

Koontz, J., D. Huggins, C. C. Freeman, D. Baker. 2010. Assessment of floodplain wetlands of the lower Missouri River using an EMAP study approach, Phase II: Verification of rapid assessment tools. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS Report No. 165:82 pp.

Baker, D., D. Huggins. 2010. Comparison of snag and shoreline macroinvertebrate samples--a bioassessment of the Missouri River. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS Report No. 161:16 pp.

Huggins, D., M. Jakubauskas, D. Baker, T. Hammer. 2010. Determining the Utility and Adaptability of Remote Sensing in Monitoring and Assessing Reservoir Eutrophication and Turbidity for TMDL Assessments. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS Report No. 171:58 pp. http://www.cpcb.ku.edu/datalibrary/...

Baker, D., D. Huggins, R. Everhart. 2009. Identification and characterization of reference conditions within USEPA Region 7 using EMAP methodology. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS Report No. 156:77 pp.

Hayford, B.L., D. Baker, D. Huggins, M. Johnson. 2009. Congruence between nutrient water quality parameters and Chironomidae (Diptera) in delineating ecological classifications of Missouri streams at different environmental scales. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS Report No. 159:19 pp.

Evans-White, M.A., W.K. Dodds, D. Huggins, D. Baker. 2009. Threshold patterns in aquatic biodiversity across water quality gradients in Central Plains streams and rivers. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28(4):855-868. http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.18...

Dzialowski, A., V.H. Smith, D. Huggins, J. deNoyelles, N. Lim, D. Baker, J. Beury. 2009. Development of predictive models for geosmin-related taste and odor in Kansas, USA, drinking water reservoirs. Water Research 43:2829-2840. http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...

Beury, J., D. Baker, D. Huggins. 2008. Wetlands in three ecoregions of the Central Plains. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS Open-file Report No. 147:15 pp.

Huggins, D., R. Everhart, A. Dzialowski, J. Kriz, D. Baker. 2007. Impact of Sedimentation on Biological Resources: A Sediment Issue White Paper Report prepared for the State of Kansas. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS Report No. 146:23 pp.

Smith, E.F., D. Huggins, D. Baker. 2006. Wadeable streams in Kansas, 2000-2001: Chemistry, physical habitat, and fish communities. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS Report No. 138:197 pp.

Dzialowski, A., D. Baker, D. Huggins. 2006. Characterization of reference conditions in wadeable streams of the Central Plains. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS 28 pp.

Wang, S.H., D. Huggins, L. Frees, C.G. Volkman, N. Lim, D. Baker, V.H. Smith, J. deNoyelles. 2005. An integrated modeling approach to watershed management: Water and watershed assessment of Cheney Reservoir, Kansas, USA. Journal of Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 164:1-19. http://www.springerlink.com/content...

Baker, D., D. Huggins. 2005. Sub-sampling techniques for macroinvertebrates, fish, and benthic algae sampled in biological monitoring of streams and rivers. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS Open-File Report No. 132:26 pp.

Wang, S.H., D. Huggins, N. Lim, D. Baker, W.W. Spotts, C.A. Goodrich, J. deNoyelles, S. Campbell, L. Frees, C. Volkman. 2003. Cheney Reservoir water quality and its watershed assessment. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS Report No. 112:37 pp.

Huggins, D., W.W. Spotts, S.H. Wang, N. Lim, D. Baker. 2003. Validation of best management practices on eight Kansas farms. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS Report No. 105:88 pp.

Baker, D., C. Morse. 2001. Disaster recovery in the herbarium. Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections 15:26-35.

Converse, S.S., D. Baker. 2000. Geographic distribution, Lampropeltis triangulum multistrata. Herpetological Review 31:186.