Senior Dam Safety Program Engineer
DamCrest Consulting
Superior, CO
Mark Baker is a Senior Dam Safety Program Engineer. He worked for 25 years with the Bureau of Reclamation and had a lead role managing the risks of 110 dams of the Burau of Indian Affairs. For nine years he was the Dam Safety Officer of the National Park Service's 60 dams. While with the National Park Service he researched and produced short films on the Lawn Lake Dam failure of 1982 (viewed over 600,000 times) and on the flood risk to Washington DC. He has presented his "the Race to Save Fontenelle Dam" 19 times to over 2600 people. He founded and co-chaired the ASDSO Dam Failures and Incidents Committee in 2011. He founded DamCrest Consulting in 2019 and is a dam safety program peer reviewer, a senior risk advisor, and an investigator of dam failures and incidents. Mark was co-editor of the 2024 Boots book Dam Failures and Incidents with 106 case studies. He led the Spencer Dam Failure Investigation. He current areas of research/interest include multi-causal factors in manmade disasters and advancing the new discipline of Dam Safety Program Engineering (DSPrE).
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET