Derek Booth

Derek Blake Booth (born 7 April 1953), is an Anglo-American aristocratic academic and geologist.

in Geology, 1980) and the University of Washington (Ph.D. in Geological Sciences, 1984),[1] Booth was Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth & Space Sciences at the University of Washington, before joining Stillwater Sciences (Past President).

[2] Booth, an affiliate professor of the University of Washington and an adjunct professor of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management (UCSB), is senior editor of Quaternary Research.

[3] Of Anglo-American aristocratic descent, Booth married Elizabeth Dreisbach on 28 June 1981, and has two children, including a son, Colin Booth (born 1982), heir-in-line to the baronetcy.

Dr Booth divorced in 2000,[4] and married secondly, on 24 June 2006,[5] Dr Stephanie Louise Moret[6] with whom he lives in Santa Barbara, California.