Stephen Baker is a chemist at the Fire Lab, where he performs and oversees gas chromatography (GC/MS, GC/FID) analysis of fire emissions. Other research interests are real time measurements of fire emissions, equipment design and methodology for field sampling of fire emissions in canisters, boreal forest fire emissions, and soil respiration. He has a B.S. in Chemistry from Northern Arizona University and M.S. in Forestry from the University of Montana.

Recent Research Projects

1)  Residual smoldering emissions study in southeast, western U.S., Alaska. 2004.
2)  Carbon credits emissions study in Chile. Utilization of mill waste chips for power plants fuel vs. smoldering pile fires commonly employed. 2006.
3)  Field project conducting fires and sampling fire emissions from major vegetation types in Mexico, to produce a comprehensive set of emission factors. 2005-2007.
4)  FIREBEAR- an international fire study in central Siberia that consists of a team of U.S. Canadian, and Russian fire scientists. Participates in fire emissions sampling, from ground and by helicopter, of experimental fires in Siberia Scotch pine and larch forests. 2001 to present. 
5)  Field study of soil respiration on post-fire FIREBEAR plots. Soil respiration rates are measured annually on the burn plots and controls, and related to fire intensity and burn age of the plots.  2002 to present.
6)  Sampling and analysis of sage fire emissions in western Montana. 2008.

Publications