Julia K. Baum
{{Short description|Canadian marine biologist}}
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Julia Kathleen Baum (born 1976) is a Canadian marine biologist. In 2017, she was named to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. She was awarded a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation in 2017 and an EWR Steacie Fellowship in 2018.
Early life and education
Baum was born in 1976.{{cite web |title=Baum, Julia Kathleen, 1976- |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012021487.html |website=id.loc.gov |access-date=May 10, 2021}} She received her Bachelor of Science degree in biology from McGill University{{cite web |title=Julia Baum |url=https://globalyoungacademy.net/jbaum/ |website=globalyoungacademy.net |access-date=May 11, 2021}} and enrolled at the University of British Columbia for her graduate degrees. Baum eventually transferred to Dalhousie University to work alongside Ransom A. Myers and complete her MSc and PhD.{{cite web |title=Facing an uncertain future? |url=http://depts.washington.edu/donbevan/2010/baum.html |website=depts.washington.edu |access-date=May 11, 2021}} Baum wrote her thesis on the declining shark population{{cite news |last1=Revkin |first1=Andrew C. |title=Atlantic Sharks Found in Rapid Decline |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/17/us/atlantic-sharks-found-in-rapid-decline.html |access-date=May 10, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=January 17, 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527233646/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/17/us/atlantic-sharks-found-in-rapid-decline.html |archive-date=May 27, 2015}} and subsequently received the Governor General's Academic Medal.{{cite web |title=Julia Kathleen Baum |url=https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/116-48213 |website=gg.ca |access-date=May 10, 2021}} Upon graduating, Baum completed a two year David H. Smith Conservation Research post-doctoral fellowship at Scripps Institution of Oceanography,{{cite web |title=2006 The David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship Program |url=https://conbio.org/images/smith/2006_Smith_Report.pdf |website=conbio.org |access-date=May 11, 2021 |date=2006}} followed by a Schmidt Ocean Institute postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.{{cite web |title=Past Winner 2007 NSERC Howard Alper Postdoctoral Prize |url=https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Prizes-Prix/Alper-Alper/Profiles-Profils_eng.asp?ID=1001 |website=nserc-crsng.gc.ca |access-date=May 11, 2021}}
Career
In 2009, Baum began studying the effects that fishing practices have on coral reefs in Kiritimati.{{cite web |last1=Wheeling |first1=Kate |title=How climate change is starving our coral reefs |url=https://theweek.com/articles/749607/how-climate-change-starving-coral-reefs |website=theweek.com |publisher=The Week |access-date=May 11, 2021 |date=January 20, 2018}} As a professor at the University of Victoria, she was named among 126 recipients of the 2012 Sloan Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowship included a $50,000 grant, which she would use to explore the impact of fishing on the life of predatory species.{{cite web |title=Shark Researcher Wins Prestigious Sloan Award |url=https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2012+shark-researcher-wins-prestigious-sloan-award+media-tip |website=uvic.ca |access-date=May 11, 2021 |date=February 22, 2012}} Later that year, she was one of three co-organizers of the Ecology@UVic group to plan bi-weekly meetings for journal-group discussions and informal seminars on the topic of ecology.{{cite web |last1=Wright |first1=Mitch |title=UVic ecologists form their own academic ecosystem |url=https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2012+ecologists-form-academic-ecosystem+ring |website=uvic.ca |access-date=May 11, 2021 |date=October 4, 2012}} A few days later, Baum received A $72,000 grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to create a marine ecology and conservation centre.{{cite web |title=CFI Grants Awarded To Five UVic Researchers |url=https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2012+cfi-grants-awarded-to-five-uvic-researchers+media-release |website=uvic.ca |access-date=May 11, 2021 |date=October 16, 2012}}
Following the 2015–2016 Marine heatwave that caused mass coral bleaching and mortality on reefs around the world, Baum began researching how to assist the different species of reef fishes in recovering.{{cite web |title=El Niño devastates coral reefs in Pacific Ocean |url=https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2016+el-ni-o-devastates-coral-reefs+ring |website=uvic.ca |access-date=May 11, 2021 |date=April 19, 2016}} As a result of her efforts, Baum was elected a Member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists{{cite web |title=Three UVic scholars named to "rising star" national college |url=http://www.uvic.ca/ring/news/2017+royal-society-three-scholars+ring |website=uvic.ca |access-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914203432/http://www.uvic.ca/ring/news/2017+royal-society-three-scholars+ring |archive-date=September 14, 2017 |date=September 12, 2017}} and Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation.{{cite web |title=Julia Baum, Ph.D. |url=https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/marine-fellows/fellows-directory/2017/julia-baum |website=pewtrusts.org |access-date=May 11, 2021}} She was also one of six university faculty members to be awarded the 2018 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for "outstanding and highly promising faculty who are earning a strong international reputation for original research."{{cite web |title=Marine ecologist's global impact earns national award |url=https://www.uvic.ca/international/home/news/stories/2018+nserc-steacie-award-julia-baum+media-release |website=uvic.ca |access-date=May 11, 2021 |date=May 1, 2018}}
During the COVID-19 pandemic, she co-authored a study in Ecological Applications which identified 170,000 individual fishes of 245 different species of reef fishes at 16 reefs on Christmas Island, before, during, and after the heatwave.{{cite web |title=Ocean warming halves coral reef fish communities |url=https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2020+reef-fish-juliabaum+media-release |website=uvic.ca |access-date=May 11, 2021 |date=April 24, 2020}} Later, Baum led the first study that found the reefs could recover from the bleaching when they were not simultaneously exposed to other types of human-caused stressors, such as water pollution.{{cite web |title=Coral recovery during a prolonged heatwave offers new hope |url=https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2020+coral-recovery-juliabaum+media-release |website=uvic.ca |access-date=May 11, 2021 |date=December 8, 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Skrypnek |first1=Jane |title=UVic biologists discover glimmer of hope for world's coral reefs |url=https://www.vicnews.com/news/uvic-biologists-discover-glimmer-of-hope-for-worlds-coral-reefs/ |access-date=May 11, 2021 |publisher=Victoria News |date=January 3, 2021}} In July 2020, Baum released a study claiming that sharks were "functionally extinct" in nearly 20 per cent of the world's coral reefs.{{cite web |title=Dalhousie study reveals sharks 'functionally extinct' in 20% of world's coral reefs |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dalhousie-study-reveals-sharks-are-functionally-extinct-in-20-of-world-s-reefs-1.5657457 |website=cbc.ca |access-date=May 11, 2021 |date=July 22, 2020}}
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