Derek Booth
Derek Blake Booth, is an Anglo-American aristocratic academic and geologist. Booth is heir presumptive to the Booth baronetcy.
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Education and career
Educated at Hampshire College, Amherst, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University and the University of Washington, Booth was Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth & Space Sciences at the University of Washington, before joining Stillwater Sciences.Booth, an affiliate professor of the University of Washington and an adjunct professor of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, is senior editor of Quaternary Research.
Family
Of Anglo-American aristocratic descent, Booth married Elizabeth Dreisbach on 28 June 1981, and has two children, including a son, Colin Booth, heir-in-line to the baronetcy.Dr Booth divorced in 2000, and married secondly, on 24 June 2006, Dr Stephanie Louise Moret with whom he lives in Santa Barbara, California.