Andrew Baker, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Marine Biology and Ecology
Kyle Family Chair in Marine Conservation
Director, Coral Reef Futures Lab
Contact: abaker@earth.miami.edu
Andrew Baker is a professor in the Department of Marine Biology and Ecology, and director of the Coral Reef Futures Lab, which focuses on the development, testing, and scaling of methods to increase coral resilience to a warming climate. A Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, Baker is a former Associate Conservation Zoologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, Fulbright Scholar from the United Kingdom, adjunct faculty at Columbia University, Fellow of the Explorers Club, and Inventor-in-Residence at the Frost Museum of Science. Prof. Baker graduated at the top of his class with a bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences (Zoology) from Cambridge University (1993) and has a Ph.D. in Marine Biology and Fisheries from the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School (1999).
Prof. Baker has authored over 140 peer-reviewed articles and is the lead investigator on a $16M NOAA-funded collaborative effort to expand next-generation interventions and approaches to enhance the climate resilience of Florida’s reefs. He was also the lead of X-REEFS, a $10.6M DARPA-funded multidisciplinary team to design and test climate-resilient hybrid reefs in SE Florida as cost-effective solutions to protecting vulnerable coastlines. He served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Interventions to Increase the Persistence and Resilience of Coral Reefs, and is a member of the Independent Risk Review Group for the Australian government’s Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program, focused on the Great Barrier Reef.
To date, Baker has served as chair or co-chair for 23 PhD students, 20 M.S. students, and 35 M.P.S. students. He also keeps bees.
