Derek Blake Booth


Derek Blake Booth is an American geologist and heir presumptive to the Booth baronetcy of Allerton Beeches, Liverpool.

Education and career

Educated at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 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 working at Stillwater Sciences.

Family

Of Anglo-American aristocratic descent, he married firstly 28 June 1981 Elizabeth Dreisbach by whom he has two children. Booth married secondly 24 June 2006 Stephanie Louise Moret and lives in Santa Barbara, California.