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Rex Baum

Rex works as a research geologist in the Landslide Hazards Program of the U.S. Geological Survey.  He is currently the chief of the Landslide Initiation Processes and Probability Project.  

While at the USGS Rex has conducted research on landslide processes, monitoring, forecasting and warning, and hazards in the Colorado Plateau, Colorado Front Range, southern Rocky Mountains, southwest Ohio, central California, Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest,  Puerto Rico, Poland, and El Salvador, Central America.