John Baker

Adjunct Professor
Research Leader, USDA-ARS
[email protected]
612-625-4249
454 Borlaug Hall
John's USDA site
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Education
  • BS, Ohio State University, 1983
  • MS, Texas A&M University, 1985
  • PhD, Texas A&M University, 1987

Areas of Interest

Biometeorology, Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Crops

Research

Much of my research is currently focused on the carbon balance, water use, water quality, and greenhouse gas balance of agricultural systems, and how they can be modified to provide both food and energy without detrimental impacts on soil or water resources.  We are investigating management practices like cover cropping and companion cropping, using field-scale micrometeorological and hydrological techniques to measure exchange processes on a year-round basis.

Select Publications

  • Baker, J.M., Feyereisen, G.W., Gamble, J.D., and Albrecht, K.A. A perennial living mulch substantially increase infiltration in row crop systems. J. Soil Water Cons. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.2022.00080
  • Rotz, C.A. Stout, R., Leytem, A., Feyereisen, G.W., Waldrip, H., Thoma, G., Holly, M., Bjorneberg, D., Baker, J.M., Vadas, P., and Kleinman, P. Environmental assessment of United States dairy farms.  J. Cleaner Prod. 2021;315:128153.
  • Hu, C., Griffis, T.J., Frie, A., Baker J.M., Wood, J.D., Millet, D.B., Yu, Z.J., and Czarnetzki, A.C. A multiyear constraint on ammonia emissions and deposition within the U.S. Corn Belt. Geophys. Res. Letters. 2021;48(6). 
  • Deventer, M.J., Roman, T., Bogaev, I., Kolka, R.B., Erickson, M.D., Lee, X., Baker J.M, Millet, D.B. and Griffis, T.J. Biases in open-path carbon dioxide flux measurements: roles of instrument surface heat exchange and analyzer temperature sensitivity. Agric. For. Meteorol. 2021;296:108216.
  • Yu, Z., Griffis, T.J., Baker, J.M. Negative warming impact on summer carbon uptake in the U.S. Corn Belt. Communications, Earth, and Environ. 2021;2:53. 
  • Gamble, J, Feyereisen, G.W., Griffis, T.J., Wente, C.D., and Baker, J.M. Long-term ecosystem carbon losses from silage maize-based forage cropping systems. Agric. For. Meteorol. 2021;306:108438.
  • Spiegal, S.A., Kleinman, P.J., Endale, D.M., Bryant, R.B., Dell, C.J., Goslee, S.C., Meinen, R.J., Flynn, K.C., Baker, J.M., Browning, D.M., McCarty, G.W., Bittman, S., Carter, J.D., Cavigelli, M.A., Duncan, E.W., Gowda, P.H., Li, X., Ponce, G., Raj, C., Silveira, M., Smith, D.R., Arthur, D.K., Yang, Q. Manuresheds: Advancing nutrient recycling in U.S. agriculture. Agricultural Systems. 2020;182:102813. 
  • Baffaut, Claire, John M. Baker, Joel A. Biederman, David D. Bosch, Erin S. Brooks, Anthony R. Buda, Eleonora M. Demaria et al. "Comparative analysis of water budgets across the US Long-Term Agroecosystem Research network." Journal of Hydrology (2020): 125021.
  • Fisher, Joshua B., Brian Lee, Adam J. Purdy, Gregory H. Halverson, Matthew B. Dohlen, Kerry Cawse‐Nicholson, Audrey Wang et al. "ECOSTRESS: NASA's next generation mission to measure evapotranspiration from the International Space Station." Water Resources Research 56, no. 4 (2020): e2019WR026058.
  • Ginakes, Peyton, Julie M. Grossman, John M. Baker, and Thanwalee Sooksa-nguan. "Living mulch management spatially localizes nutrient cycling in organic corn production." Agriculture 10, no. 6 (2020): 243.
  • Griffis, Timothy J., and John M. Baker. "Nitrogen management and air quality in China." Nature Food 1, no. 10 (2020): 597-598.
  • Griffis, Tim J., D. T. Roman, J. D. Wood, J. Deventer, L. Fachin, J. Rengifo, D. Del Castillo et al. "Hydrometeorological sensitivities of net ecosystem carbon dioxide and methane exchange of an Amazonian palm swamp peatland." Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 295 (2020): 108167.
  • Spiegal, Sheri, Peter JA Kleinman, Dinku M. Endale, Ray B. Bryant, Curtis Dell, Sarah Goslee, Robert J. Meinen et al. "Manuresheds: Advancing nutrient recycling in US agriculture." Agricultural Systems 182 (2020): 102813.
  • Alexander, Jonathan R., John M. Baker, Rodney T. Venterea, and Jeffrey A. Coulter. "Kura clover living mulch reduces fertilizer N requirements and increases profitability of maize." Agronomy 9, no. 8 (2019): 432.
  • Alexander, Jonathan R., Rodney T. Venterea, John M. Baker, and Jeffrey A. Coulter. "Kura Clover living mulch: spring management effects on nitrogen." Agronomy 9, no. 2 (2019): 69.
  • Deventer, M. Julian, Timothy J. Griffis, D. Tyler Roman, Randall K. Kolka, Jeffrey D. Wood, Matt Erickson, John M. Baker, and Dylan B. Millet. "Error characterization of methane fluxes and budgets derived from a long-term comparison of open-and closed-path eddy covariance systems." Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 278 (2019): 107638.
  • Dobbratz, Michelle, John M. Baker, Julie Grossman, M. Scott Wells, and Peyton Ginakes. "Rotary zone tillage improves corn establishment in a kura clover living mulch." Soil and Tillage Research 189 (2019): 229-235.
  • Ginakes, Peyton, Julie Grossman, John Baker, and Thanwalee Sooksa-nguan. "Tillage intensity influences nitrogen cycling in organic kura clover living mulch." Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 116, no. 1 (2020): 71-82.
  • Griffis, Timothy J., Cheng Hu, John M. Baker, Jeffrey D. Wood, Dylan B. Millet, Mathew Erickson, Zhongjie Yu, M. Julian Deventer, Cody Winker, and Zichong Chen. "Tall tower ammonia observations and emission estimates in the US Midwest." Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 124, no. 11 (2019): 3432-3447.
  • Hu, C., Griffis, T.J., Baker, J.M., Wood, J.D., Millet, D.B., Yu, Z., Lee, X. 2019. Modeling the sources and transport processes during extreme ammonia episodes in the U.S. Corn Belt. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031207.
  • Yu, X., Millet, D. B., Wells, K. C., Griffis, T. J., Chen, X., Baker, J. M., Conley, S.A., Smith, M.L.,Gyakharia, A., Kort, E.A., Glant, G., and Wood, J.D. 2019. Top‐down constraints on methane point source emissions from animal agriculture and waste based on new airborne measurements in the U.S. upper Midwest. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125, e2019JG005429. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005429
  • Ginakes, P., Grossman, J., Sooksa-nguan, T., Dobbratz, M., Baker, J.M. 2018 Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics under zone tillage of varying intensities in a kura clover living mulch system. Soil & Tillage Research. 184(12):310-316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2018.07.017.
  • Gamble, J.D., Feyereisen, G.W., Papiernik, S.K., Wente, C.D., Baker, J.M. 2018. Summer fertigation of dairy slurry reduces soil nitrate concentration and subsurface drainage nitrate losses compared to fall injection. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 2:15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2018.00015. 
  • Fu, C., Lee, X., Griffis, T., Baker, J.M., Turner, P. 2018. A modeling study of direct and indirect N2O emissions from a representative catchment in the U.S. Corn Belt. Water Resources Research. 54(5):3632-3653. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017WR022108. 
  • Chen, Z., Griffis, T.J., Baker, J.M., Millet, D.B., Wood, J.D., Dlugokencky, E.J., Andrews, A.E., Hu, C., Kolka, R.K. 2018. Source partitioning of methane emissions and its seasonality in the U.S. Midwest. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 123:646-659. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JG004356. 
  • Holly, M., Kleinman, P., Bryant, R., Bjorneberg, D., Rotz, C., Baker, J.M., Boggess, M., Brauer, D., Chintala, R., Feyereisen, G.W., Gamble, J., Leytem, A., Reed, K., Vadas, P., Waldrip, H. 2018. Short Communication: Identifying challenges and opportunities for improved nutrient management through USDA's Dairy Agroecosystem Working Group. Journal of Dairy Science. 101(7):6632-6641. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2017-13819. 
  • Chen, M., Griffis, T.J., Baker, J.M., Wood, J.D., Meyers, T.P., Suyker, A. 2018. Comparing crop growth and carbon budgets simulated across AmeriFlux agricultural sites using the Community Land Model (CLM). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 256-257:315-333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.03.012.
  • Xiao, K., Griffis, T.J., Baker, J.M., Bolstad, P.V., Erickson, M.D., Lee, X., Wood, J.D., Hu, C., Nieber, J. 2018. Evaporation from a temperate closed-basin lake and its impact on present, past, and future water level. Journal of Hydrology. 561:59-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.03.059. 
  • Noland, R.L., Wells, M.S., Coulter, J.A., Tiede, T., Baker, J.M., Martinson, K.L., Sheaffer, C.C. 2018. Estimating alfalfa yield and nutritive value using remote sensing and air temperature. Field Crops Research. 222:189-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2018.01.017. 
  • Gamble, J.D., Feyereisen, G.F., Papiernik, S.K., Wente, C., Baker, J. 2018. Regression-kriged soil organic carbon stock changes in manured corn silage-alfalfa production systems. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 81:1557-1566. https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2017.04.0138 
  • Noland, R.L., Wells, M.S., Sheaffer, C.C., Baker, J.M., Martinson, K.L., Coulter, J.A. 2018. Establishment and function of cover crops interseeded into corn. Crop Science. 58:1-11. https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2017.06.0375.
  • Griffis, T.J., Z. Chen, J.M. Baker, J.D. Wood, D.B. Millet, X. Lee, R. T. Venterea, and P.A. Turner. 2017. Nitrous oxide emissions are enhanced in a warmer, wetter world. PNAS 114:12081-12085. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1704552114. 
  • Gamble, J.D., Feyereisen, G.F., Papiernik, S.K., Wente, C., Baker, J. 2018. Regression-kriged soil organic carbon stock changes in manured corn silage-alfalfa production systems. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 81:1557-1566. https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2017.04.0138
  • Baker, J.M. and T.J. Griffis. 2017. Feasibility of Recycling Excess Agricultural Nitrate With Electrodialysis.  J. Env. Qual. 46:`528-1534. doi: 10.2134/jeq2017.05.0215.
  • Ochsner, T.E., Schumacher, T.W., Venterea, R.T., Feyereisen, G.W., Baker, J.M. 2017. Soil water dynamics and nitrate leaching under corn-soybean rotation, continuous corn, and kura clover. Vadose Zone Journal. 17:170028. https://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2017.01.0028.
  • Wood, J.D., T.J. Griffis, J.M. Baker, C. Frankenburg, M. Verma, and K. Yuen. 2017. Multi-scale analyses reveal robust relations between solar induced fluorescence and gross primary production.  Geophy. Res. Letters. 44:533-541.
  • Turner, P.A., T.J. Griffis,  D.J. Mulla, J.M. Baker, R.T. Venterea, and K. Wells. 2016. A geostatistical approach to identify and mitigate agricultural nitrous oxide emission hotspots.  Science of the Total Environ. 572:442-449. Doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.08.094
  • Chen, Z., T.J. Griffis, D.B. Millet, J.D. Wood, X. Lee, J.M. Baker, K. Xiao, P.A. Turner, M. Chen, J. Zobitz, and K. C. Wells. 2016. Partitioning N2O Emissions within the US Corn Belt using an Inverse Modeling Approach.  Global Biogeochem. Cycles.  30:1192-1205. Doi: 10.1002/2015GB005313
  • Turner, P.A., J.M. Baker, T.J. Griffis, and R.T. Venterea. 2016. The impact of a kura clover living mulch on nitrous oxide emissions in a corn/soybean system.  J. Env. Qual. 45:1782-1787. Doi:10.2134/jeq2016.01.0036.
  • Turner, P.A., T.J. Griffis, J.M. Baker, X. Lee, J.T. Crawford, L.C. Loken, and R.T. Venterea. 2016. Regional scale controls ondissolved nitrous oxide in the Upper Mississippi River. Geophys. Res. Letters 43:4400-4407. DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068710
  • Griffis, T.J., J.D. Wood, J.M. Baker, X. Lee, K. Xiao, Z. Chen, L.R. Welp, N. Schultz, G. Gorski, M. Xhen, nd J.L. Nieber. 2016. Investigating the Source, Transport, and Isotope Composition of Water Vapor in the Planetary Boundary Layer.  Atmos. Chem. Phys. 16:5139-5157. DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-5139-2016.
  • Turner, P.A., T.J. Griffis, X. Lee, J.M. Baker, R.T. Venterea, and J.D. Wood. 2015. Indirect nitrous oxide emissions from streams within the US Corn Belt scale with stream order. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 112:9839-9843.
  • Wood, J.D., T.J. Griffis, and J.M. Baker. 2015. Detecting drift bias and exposure errors in solar and photosynthetically active radiation data. Agric. Forest Meteorol. 206:33-44.
  • Chen, M., T.J. Griffis, J.M. Baker, and J.D. Wood, and K. Xiao. 2015. Simulating crop phenology in the Community Land Model and its impact on energy and carbon fluxes. JGR-Biogeosciences. 120:310-325.
  • Zhang, X., X. Lee, T.J. Griffis, A.E. Andrews, J. M. Baker, M.D. Erickson, N. Hu, and X. Wei. 2015. Quantiftying nitrous oxide fluxes on multiple spatial scales in the Upper Midwest , USA. Int. J. Biomet. 59:299-310.
  • Wilson, M.L., D.L. Allan, and J.M. Baker. 2014. Aerially seeding cover crops in the northern U.S. corn belt: limitations, future research needs, and alternative practices. J. Soil Water Cons. 69:67A-72A.
  • Zhang, X., X. Lee, T.J. Griffis, J.M. Baker, M.D. Erickson, N.Hu, and W. Xiao. 2014. The influence of plants on atmospheric methane in an agriculture-dominate landscape. Int. J. Biomet. 58:819-833.
  • Guanter, L., Y.Zhang, M. Jung, J. Joiner, M. Voigt, J.A. Berry, C. Frankenberg, A.R. Huete ,P. Zarco-Tejada, J.E. Lee, M.S. Moran, G. Ponce-Campos, C. Beer, G. Campos-Valls, N. Buchmann, D. Gianelle, K. Klumpp, A. Cescatti, J.M. Baker, and T.J. Griffis. 2014. Global and time-resolved monitoring of crop photosynthesis with chlorophyll fluorescence. PNAS 111:E1327-E1333.
  • Sun, Y., L. Gu, R. E. Dickinson, S. G. Pallardy, J.M. Baker, Y. Cao, F. Murilo DaMatta, X. Dong, D. Ellsworth, D. Van Goethem, A. M. Jensen, B. E. Law, R. Loos, S. C. Vitor Martins, R. J. Norby, D. Weston, K. Winter. 2014. Asymmetrical effects of mesophyll conductance on fundamental photosynthetic parameters and their relationships estimated from leaf gas exchange measurements. Plant Cell Env. 37:978-994.
  • Jin, V.L., J.M. Baker, J.M.F. Johnson, D.L. Karlen, R.M. Lehman, S.L. Osborne, T.J. Sauer, D.E. Stott, G.E. Varvel, R.T. Venterea, M.R. Schmer, and B.J. Wienhold. 2014. Soil greenhouse gas emissions in response to corn stover removal and tillage management across the U.S. Corn Belt. Bioenergy Research 7: 517-527.
  • Karlen, D.L., S.J. Birrell, J.M.J. Johnson, S.L. Osborne, T.E. Schumacher, G.E. Varvel, R.B. Ferguson, J.M. Novak, J.R. Fredrick, J. M. Baker, J.A. Lamb, P.R. Adler, G.W. Roth, and E.D. Nofziger. 2014. Multilocation corn stover harvest effects on crop yields and nutrient removal. Bionergy research 7:528539.
  • Johnson, J.M.F., J.M. Novak, G.E. Varvel, D.E. Stott, S. Osborne, D.L. Karlen, J.A. Lamb, J.M. Baker, and P.R. Adler. 2014. Crop residue mass needed to maintain soil organic carbon levels: Can it be determined? Bioenergy Research 7:481-490.
  • J.M. Baker, J..J. Fassbinder, and J.A. Lamb. 2014. The impact of corn stover removal on N2O emission and soil respiration: an investigation with automated chambers. Bioenergy Research 7: 503-508.
  • Zhang, X., X. Lee, T.J. Griffis, J.M. Baker, and W. Xiao. 2014. Estimating greenhouse gas fluxes from an agriculture-dominated landscape using planetary boundary layer methods. Atmos. Chem & Phys. 19:10705-10719.
  • Gilmanov, T., J.M. Baker, and 26 others. 2013. Productivity and CO2 Exchange of the Leguminous Crops:Estimates from Flux Tower Measurements. Agron. J. 106:545-559.
  • Afieri, J.G., W.P. Kustas, J. Prueger, J.M. Baker, J. L. Hatfield. 2013. The differential response of surface fluxes from agro-ecosystems in response to local environmental conditions. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 19:239-245.
  • Wilson, M.B., J.M. Baker, and D.L. Allan. 2013. Factors Affecting Successful Establishment of Aerially Seeded Winter Rye. Agron. J. 105:1868-1877.
  • Griffis, T.J., X. Lee, J.M. Baker, M.P. Russelle, X. Zhang, R.T. Venterea, and D.B. Millet. 2013. Reconciling the differences between top-down and bottom-up estimates of nitrous oxide emissions for the US Corn Belt. Global Biogeochem. Cycles. 27:746-754.
  • Sun, Y., Gu, L., Dickinson, R., Pallardy, S., Baker, J.M., Cao, Y., Damatta, F., Dong, X., Ellsworth, D., Van Goethem, D., Jensen, A.M., Law, B.E., Loos, R., Martins, S.C., Norby, R.J., Weston, D., Winter, K. 2014. Asymmetrical effects of mesophyll conductance on fundamental photosynthetic parameters and their relationships estimated from leaf gas exchange measurements. Plant Cell and Environment. 37:978-994.
  • Krueger, E.S., J.M. Baker, T.E. Ochsner, C.D. Wente, G.W. Feyereisen, and D.C. Reicosky. 2013. On-farm environmental assessment of corn silage production with a winter rye cover crop and liquid dairy manure.  J. Soil Water Cons. 68:438-449.
  • Ziyumo, C, K.A. Albrecht, J.M. Baker, R. Bernardo. 2013. Corn Performance under Managed Drought Stress and in a Kura Clover Living Mulch Intercropping System.  Agron. J. 105: 3: 579-586.
  • Feyereisen, G.F., G.G. Camargo, R.E. Baxter, J.M. Baker, and T.Richard. 2013. Cellulosic Biofuel Potential of a Winter Rye Double Crop across the U.S. Corn-Soybean Belt. Agron. J. 105: 3: 631-642.
  • Fassbinder, J.J., N. Schultz, J.M. Baker, and T.J. Griffis. 2013. Automated, Low-power Chamber System for Measuring N2O Emissions.  J. Env. Qual. 42: 2:606-614.
  • Fassbinder, J.J., T.J. Griffis, and J.M. Baker. 2012. Evaluation of carbon isotope flux partitioning theory under simplified and controlled environmental conditions. Agric. Forest Meteorol.  153:154-164.
  • Fassbinder, J.J., T.J. Griffis, and J.M. Baker. 2012. Interannual, seasonal, and diel variability in the carbon isotope composition of respiration in a C3/C4 agricultural ecosystem. Agric. Forest Meteorol.  153:144-153.
  • Baker, J.M., T.J. Griffis, and T.E. Ochsner. 2012. Coupling Landscape Water Storage and Supplemental Irrigation to Increase Productivity and Improve Environmental Stewardship in the US Midwest.  Water Resour. Res. 48, W05301, doi:10.1029/2011WR011780. 
  • Krueger, E., T.E. Ochsner, P. Porter, and J.M. Baker. 2012. Rye-corn silage double-cropping reduces corn yield but improves environmental impacts. Agron. J. 104:888-896.
  • Gitelson, A.A., Y. Peng, J. Masek, D.C. Rundquist, S. Verma, A. Suyker, J.M. Baker, J.L. Hatfield, and T. Meyers. 2012. Remote sensing of crop productivity with Landsat data.  Remote Sensing of Environ. 121:404-414.
  • Baker, J.M. 2012. Vegetative propagation of kura clover: a field-scale test. Can. J. Plant Sci. 92(7): 1245-1251.
  • Baker, J.M., and R.F. Follett. 2012. Potential GRACEnet linkages with other greenhouse gas and soil carbon research and monitoring programs, in Managing Agricultural Greenhouse Gases, M. Liebig, A. Franzluebbers, and R.F. Follett (eds). Elsevier Amsterdam.  547 pp.
  • Schultz, N.M., T.J. Griffis, X. Lee, and J.M. Baker. 2011.  Identification and correction of spectral contamination in D/H and 18O/16O measured in leaf, stem, and soil water. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 25:3360-3368.
  • Karlen, D.L., G.E. Varvel, J.M.F. Johnson, J.M. Baker, S.L. Osborne, J.M. Novak, P.R. Adler, G.W. Roth, and S.J. Birrell. 2011. Monitoring soil quality to assess the sustainability of harvesting corn stover. Agron. J. 103:288-295.
  • Griffis, T.J. , X. Lee, J.M. Baker, K. Billmark, N. Schultz, M. Erickson, X. Zhang, J. Fassbinder,W. Xiao, N. Hu. 2011. Oxygen isotope composition of evapotranspiration and its relation to C4 photosynthetic discrimination. J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci. J. Geophys. Res., 116, G01035, doi:10.1029/2010JG001514.
  • Krueger, E., T.E. Ochsner, P. Porter, and J.M. Baker. 2011. Winter rye cover crop management influences on soil water, soil nitrate, and corn development. Agron. J. 103:316-323.
  • Wilhelm, W.W., J. R. Hess, D.L. Karlen, J. M. F. Johnson, D.J. Muth, J. M. Baker, H. T. Gollany, J. M. Novak, D. E. Stott, and G. E. Varvel. 2011. Balancing Limiting Factors and Economic Drivers for Sustainable Midwest Agricultural Residue Feedstock Supplies.  Industrial Biotechnol. 6: 271-287.
  • Wilhelm, W.W., J. M Johnson, D. Lightle, D. L. Karlen, J.M. Novak, N.W. Barbour, D.A. Laird, J.M. Baker, T.E. Ochsner, A.D. Halvorson, D.W. Archer, F. Arriaga. 2011. Vertical Distribution of Corn Stover Dry Mass Grown at Several U.S. Locations.  Bioenergy Research 8:11-21.
  • Baker, J.M., and T.J. Griffis. 2010. A Simple, Accurate, Field-portable Mixing Ratio Generator and Rayleigh Distillation Device.  Agric. Forest Meteorol. 150:1607-1611.
  • Griffis, T.J.,  S.D. Sargent, X. Lee,  J.M. Baker, J. Greene, M. Erickson, X. Zhang, K. Billmark, N. Schultz, W. Xiao, N. Hu. 2010. Determining the Oxygen  Isotope Composition of Evapotranspiration Using Eddy Covariance. Boundary Layer Meteorol. 137: 307-326.
  • Griffis, T.J., J.M. Baker, S.D. Sargent, M. Erickson, J. Corcoran, M. Chen, and K. Billmark. 2010. Influence of C4 vegetation on 13CO2 discrimination and isoforcing in the upper Midwest, United States. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 24, GB4006, doi:10.1029/2009GB003768.
  • Spokas, K.A., J.M. Baker, and D.C. Reicosky. 2010. Ethylene: Potential Key for Biochar Amendment Impacts.  Plant and Soil 333:443-452.
  • Johnson, J.M.,W. W. Wilhelm, D. L Karlen, D. W. Archer, B. Wienhold, D. T. Lightle, D. Laird, J. M. Baker, T. E. Ochsner, J. M. Novak, A. D. Halvorson, F. Arriaga, N. W. Barbour. 2010. Nutrient removal as a function of corn stover cutting height and cob harvest.  BioEnergy Research 7:342-352.
  • Ochsner, T.E., J.M. Baker, K. Albrecht, and T. Schumacher.  2010.  Water balance and nitrate leaching for corn in kura clover living mulch.  Agron. J. 102:1169-1178.
  • Bavin, T.K. , T. J. Griffis, J. M. Baker, R. T. Venterea. 2009. Impact of reduced tillage and cover cropping on the greenhouse gas budget of a maize/soybean rotation agricultural ecosystem.  Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 134:234-242.
  • Spokas, K.A., W.C. Koskinen, J.M. Baker, and R.T. Venterea. 2009. Impacts of Woodchip Biochar Additions on Soil Carbon, Net Methane Oxidation and Sorption/Degradation of Two Herbicides in a Minnesota Soil. Chemosphere 77:574-581.
  • Berryman, E. , R.T. Venterea, J.M. Baker, P.R. Bloom, and B. Elf.  2009. Phosphorus and greenhouse gas dynamics in a drained calcareous wetland in Minnesota. J. Env. Qual. 38:2147-2158.
  • Baker, J.M., and T.J. Griffis. 2009. Evaluating the potential of winter cover crops in corn-soybean systems for sustainable co-production of food and fuel.  Agric. Forest Meteorol. 149:2120-2132.
  • Venterea, R.T., K.A. Spokas and J.M. Baker. 2009. Accuracy and precision analysis of chamber-based nitrous oxide gas flux estimates. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 73:1087-1093.
  • Lee, X., T.J. Griffis, J.M. Baker, K.A. Billmark, K. Kim, L.R. Welp: 2009, 'Canopy-scale kinetic fractionation of atmospheric carbon dioxide and water vapor isotopes', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 23, GB1002, doi:10.1029/2008GB003331.
  • Welp, L.R., X. Lee, K.Kim, T.R. Griffis, K. Billmark, and J.M. Baker. 2008. d18O of water vapor, evapotranspiration, and sites of evaporation in a soybean canopy. Plant, Cell, Environ. 31:1214-1228.
  • Ochsner, T.E., and J.M. Baker. 2008. In situ monitoring of soil heat flux and thermal properties during freezing and thawing.  Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 72:1025-1032.
  • Venterea, R.T, and J.M. Baker. 2008.  Physical non-uniformity effects on errors in chamber-based trace gas flux estimates. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 72: 1410-1417.
  • Griffis, T.J., S.D. Sargent, J.M. Baker, X. Lee, B.D. Tanner, J. Greene, E. Swiatek, K.C. Billmark. 2008. Direct Measurement of Biosphere-Atmosphere Isotopic Exchange Using the Eddy Covariance Technique. JGR-Atmospheres. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D08304.
  • Baker, J.M. 2007. Challenges and Cautions in Measuring Evapotranspiration.  2007. Southwest Hydrol. 7:24-25.
  • Russelle, M.P., R.V. Morey, J.M. Baker, P.M. Porter, H.-J. G. Jung. 2007. Comments on “Carbon-Negative Biofuels from Low-Input High-Diversity Grassland Biomass”. Science 316:1567b.
  • Griffis, T.J., J. Zhang, J.M. Baker, N. Kljun, and K. Bilmark. 2007. Determining carbon isotope signatures from micrometeorological measurements: implications for studying biosphere-atmosphere exchange processes.  Boundary Layer Meteorol. 127:295-316.
  • Baker, J.M.,  T.E. Ochsner, R.T. Venterea, and T.J. Griffis. 2007. Tillage and carbon sequestration- What do we really know? Agric. Ecosyst. Environ.118:1-5. 

Book Chapters 

  • Baker, J.M., Griffis, T.J. 2016. Atmospheric Humidity. In "Agroclimatology: Linking Agriculture to Climate", J.L. Hatfield, J.H. Prueger, M.V.K. Sivakumar (eds.). American Society of Agronomy.
  • Baker, J.M. 2003. Water movement in frozen soil. Encyclopedia of Water Science. p. 314-316.
  • Baker, J.M. 2002. Water Relations of Frozen Soil. In: Lattan, R. Encyclopedia of Soil Science. 2nd Edition. Boca Raton: CRC Press. p. 1390-1392.
  • Baker, J.M., Flerchinger, G.N., Spaans, E.J.A. 2000. Sensible heat exchange during snowmelt. In "Contaminant Hydrology: Cold Regions Modeling", S.A. Grant (ed). CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.