Brian Morey Boom (born 24 February 1954) is an American botanist who specializes in the flora of the Guianas and the Caribbean, the family Rubiaceae, ethnobotany, and economic botany.
In the same years, he was also a visiting fellow at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) in Manaus (Brazil).
[1] Boom has done field work in United States, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Bolivia, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Venezuela.
He led ecotours for the board of the New York Botanical Garden to Ecuador in 1992, to Brazil in 1993, 1999, and 2009, to Puerto Rico in 1994, to Costa Rica in 2004, to Chile in 2005, and to Cuba in 2012 (3 trips).
Boom participated in inventories of trees in Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Bolivia, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.
He also leads efforts to conserve ash trees (genus Fraxinus) in the northeastern United States.