Andy Baker

@andy-baker.bsky.social

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Australian Research Council Laureate Professor at UNSW Sydney, investigating groundwater recharge, climate, geochemistry, and stalagmites. Not all at once, at least not most of the time. Posting more often at @andbaker@aus.social

Graph of the SOI for last 10 years. Red shade is El Nino like conditions blue is La Nina.
Group photo, oversized furniture, urban park setting
View out of a cave
Stalactites dripping water
Cave scene, calcified bucket
Stalagmites in a cave with drip logger
Forest scene with stream. Brown water, fallen log over stream. Black spaniel stands on the log
Country scene with car and field station buildings
Cave scene, looking down, blue groundwater in mid view
Cave chamber with board walk, lidar scanner on tripod in foreground
A cave with drip loggers on floor
A box of field kit, including helmet, cave tackle bag, books, and a duffle bag with bush hat on top.
Sydney cityscape
10 am photo, unpacked but still boxed.
Map of the GreenWay in Inner West Sydney. GreenWay to the left.
A graph showing distance run in km from 2006 to 2026
A cave with stalagmites, laptop in foreground
Cavers with headlamps standing on steps in a cave with stalagmites and stalactites
A duffel bag with hat, cavers tackle bag, field laptop, boots, emergency beacon
Cave chamber with stalactites and stalagmites, caver with headtorch in background
Field equipment being packed, including pluvimate rain gauges, caving helmet and tackle bag, ruggedised laptop, red rucksack, hat
An interview by a river bank
Field gear in a box, duffle bag with hat, pluvimate, provisions in a bag
Researchers working under metal sheeting, extracting a groundwater bore logger from the borehole
A black duffle bag, red and blue cavers bag, ruggedised laptop and walking boots
Six people standing in a room, Sydney cityscape behind them
A professor and indigenous groundwater science leader speaks at a conference podium. Conference logo in background designed by Uncle Anthony Newcastle.
The hyperlinks look okay, but they all point to case studies from one region, and all with the same authors group
Wellington Caves sign in a country landscape
Excerpt from a reviewer comments, with a table of 'publications' that had been invented by ChatGPT
The CitySurf running route in red
A flier for a talk, with abstract and picture of a cave
A bike in a train carriage
White cave surface formed from calcite crystals that had grown the top of the groundwater as 'calcite rafts'. Hole are visible where the calcite has been washed away by drop water. Stalactites in background
A reconstruction of megafauna wombat outside a building
A map with running route in red
AMOS banner
A cave with daylight coming through a hole in the roof
Path leading to cave entrance door. Kit bag in foreground, lidar scanner in front of the door
Weather station in forested country
Pluvimate rain gauges on a wooden deck in pouring rain
Wooden deck, black spaniel, three rain gauges on the deck. Misty skies with trees in background
View inside a train carriage, a round white container on the seat contains a pluvimate. Sydney Central
A cave with stalagmites and stalactites. Metal stand with hydrology logger in centre background. Wombeyan Caves
A box full of field kit: caving helmets, lights, sample bottles, field ruggedized laptop, more lights, first aid kit, more lights, download cables...
A group of people in a cave, looking up at the roof
People standing in a grassy landscape with limestone blocks, a depression is visible in the foreground
Electrical resistivity tomography field equipment in foreground. Grassy field, sunset in background.
A person placing a drip loggers in a cave
A table with field equipment in a box. A black spaniel is checking the contents for any edible
Rainfall radar map, Brisbane is located near the top of the map
A forest floor with leaves, dragon head is top right, body is mostly hidden, striped tail in lower left. Strickland Forest.
A rock headland on the right, water in the background, flat rock platform in foreground. Most of the headland is sandstone, with shale at the base. Kurrawyba, Terrigal, Australia