[3] She states that Mr. Lee urged her class to explore nature in person and organized a trip every spring break with his students to study ecology in Georgia and Arizona.

[5] Baron founded the John Wesley Powell Center at the United States Geological Survey as a subset for new synthesis and analysis.

[1] Baron started the Lock Vale Watershed in Rocky Mountain National Park and has served as principal investigator continuing the recording and research of the past thirty years.

[3] Baron is also a senior research ecologist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University.

[2] Over her career, Baron's research has informed policymakers on the changing nature of the Rocky Mountains, she testified in front of the House of Representatives Committee on Science on May 3, 2001 on atmospheric deposition in the western United States.