Christine M. Baker

Christine M Baker completed a PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Washington in March 2023. Baker is currently a Postdoctoral Research in Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. She will join the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Stanford University as an Assistant Professor in summer 2024.

Baker’s research examines processes at the land-ocean interface, a highly dynamic region with fragile ecosystems, progressively vulnerable communities, and coastal hazards further magnified by a changing climate. Her research integrates laboratory experimentation with numerical modeling and remotely-sensed field observations to build our fundamental understanding of hydrodynamics in coastal regions to inform predictions of coastal water quality, shoreline evolution, and other coastal hazards. Her ongoing and planned projects include studying wave transformation in shallow waters, surf-shelf transport driven by eddy and rip current dynamics, wave-driven sediment transport, and coupled hydro- and morphodynamics in the context of extreme events.