Baum eventually transferred to Dalhousie University to work alongside Ransom A. Myers and complete her MSc and PhD.
[3] Baum wrote her thesis on the declining shark population[4] and subsequently received the Governor General's Academic Medal.
[10] A few days later, Baum received A $72,000 grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to create a marine ecology and conservation centre.
[12] 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[13] and Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation.
[16] 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.