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Derek Booth
PhD, PG, PE, Senior Geologist
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Derek is a nationally and internationally recognized geologist in the fields of river and glacier dynamics and deposits, landscape processes, urban watershed management and stormwater, and geologic hazards. His work emphasizes field-based collection and analysis of basic physical data for understanding landscape conditions and watershed processes, and their likely responses to human disturbance. Prior to joining Stillwater Sciences, Derek held the position of Research Professor at the University of Washington, with joint appointments in the departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth & Space Sciences; he retains an active position as Affiliate Professor in both departments and is the senior editor of Quaternary Research, an international scientific journal for interdisciplinary studies of the past two million years of human and earth history.  He has also been appointed Adjunct Full Professor in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of Santa Barbara.