Ernie Baker has 50 years of groundwater experience in Texas, including 41 years with the USGS Water Resource Division. He has been the Texas District's Deputy Chief of Projects for the Coastal Plain of Texas. Baker's major expertise is in geophysical bore-hole log intepretation, having estimated thousands of electric logs in Texas. Baker has identified all the aquifers and confining beds in the Texas Coastal Plain and has modeled over 20,000 square miles of the Texas Coastal Plain in terms of groundwater flow.