Hank Baker

I am an evolutionary ecologist with an affinity for freshwater fish. I am particularly interested in the ecological and evolutionary causes of intraspecific trait variation and how this variation affects the dynamics of populations, communities, and food webs. I enjoy advancing our basic understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes but also work to inform restoration and recovery actions for biodiversity conservation, especially of imperiled fishes. As a postdoc in the Berkeley freshwater group, I am researching the causes and consequences of life history diversity in the endangered Central California Coast Evolutionarily Significant Unit of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in the context of ongoing restoration efforts in the Russian River watershed.

I completed my PhD at the University of California, San Diego studying freshwater fishes of California’s eastern Sierra Nevada and did my undergrad at Brown University where I worked on the ecology of striped bass in saltmarshes. I have worked throughout California as an environmental consultant on fish ecology- and limnology-related projects.