Fred Baes

P.O. Box 2008, 1060 Commerce Park, MS-6480
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6480
Phone: 865-576-2137
Fax: 865-241-3784
Email: bae@ornl.gov

Position:

Senior research staff member, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Education:

M.S., Biology, Emory University, 1977; B.S., Zoology, University of Tennessee, 1972

Expertise:

Environmental laws and regulations; food-chain transport of radionuclides and trace metals; tree-ring chemistry; World Wide Web Publishing; training; Webmastering, desktop publishing; microcomputers

Publications:

Numerous journal articles, reports, and presentations in the areas of terrestrial food-chain transport of chemicals, trace metal chemistry of tree rings, and environmental laws and regulations, including:

Tree Rings

Baes, C. F., III, and Ragsdale, H. L. (1981). "Age-specific lead distribution in xylem rings of three tree genera in Atlanta, Georgia." Environ. Pollut. Ser. B. 2: 21-35.

Baes, C. F., III, and McLaughlin, S. B. (1984). "Trace elements in tree rings: evidence of recent and historical air pollution." Science 224: 494-7.

Baes, C. F., III (1985). "Elemental Analysis of Tree Rings" Cambial Activities. 11: 1-8.

Modeling

Baes, C. F., III, Sharp, R. D., Sjoreen, A. L., and Shor, R. W. (1984). A Review and Analysis of Parameters for Assessing Transport of Environmentally Released Radionuclides through Agriculture. ORNL-5786. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Baes, C. F., III, and Sharp, R. D. (1983). "A proposal for estimation of soil leaching and leaching constants for use in assessment models." J. Environ. Qual. 12: 17-28.

Moore, R. E., Baes, C. F., III, McDowell-Boyer, L. M., Watson, A. P., Hoffman, F. O., Pleasant, J. C., and Miller, C. W. (1979). AIRDOS-EPA: A Computerized Methodology for Estimating Environmental Concentrations and Dose to Man from Airborne Releases of Radionuclides. ORNL-5532. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Hoffman, F. O., and Baes, C. F., III (1979). A Statistical Analysis of Selected Parameters for Predicting Food Chain Transport and Internal Dose of Radionuclides. ORNL/NUREG/TM-282. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Baes, C. F., III (1982). "Prediction of radionuclide distribution coefficient values from soil-plant concentration ratios." Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc. 41: 53-4.

McDowell-Boyer, L. M., and Baes, C. F., III (1984). "Terrestrial food-chain transport." pp. 21-35, in Models and Parameters for Environmental Radiological Assessments. DOE Critical Review Series. Technical Information Center, U.S. Department of Energy.

Baes, C. F., III, Shor, R. W., Sharp, R. D., and Sjoreen, A. L. (1985). "Two agricultural production data libraries for risk assessment models." J. Environ. Qual. 14: 509-16.

Other

Baes, C. F., III, Garten, C. T., Jr., and Tolbert, V. R. (1987). Long-Term Problems of Land Contaminated by Nonradioactive Hazardous Chemicals: Sources, Impacts, and Countermeasures. ORNL-6239. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.