Professor Ian Fairchild PhD CGeol

Professor Ian Fairchild

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Emeritus Professor

Contact details

Telephone
0121 414 6165
Email
i.j.fairchild@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Ian Fairchild is a geoscientist with broad interests in the geochemistry of the Earth’s surface, climate change and Quaternary and Neoproterozoic earth history. He employs this breadth of knowledge in research and public outreach including geoconservation in the West Midlands. He is equally at home in the field and the laboratory with a wealth of experience in glacial environments, caves, rock successions and at national and international geochemical research facilities.

Qualifications

  • BSc University of Nottingham
  • PhD University of Nottingham

Teaching

Ian occasionally supervises advanced undergraduate projects.

Postgraduate supervision

Ian Fairchild employs this breadth of knowledge in teaching, in public outreach, and professional activities such as examining and research assessment. He is equally at home in the field and the laboratory with a wealth of experience in glacial environments, caves, rock successions and at national and international geochemical research facilities.

Dr Fairchild has research interests in the following areas:

Speleothems and Climate Change, especially the development of palaeoclimate proxies and the understanding of karst processes including their hydrology. See also www.speleothemscience.info
Glaciation and carbonates in deep time - The Cryogenian. See GAINS project
Aqueous Geochemistry in relation to weathering reactions and hydrology in glacial and riverine environments (Iceland, Himalayas).
Experimental studies of mineral-water interactions

Other activities

  • Chair, NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities (NIGF) Steering Committee (2016-2019)
  • Trustee, Herefordshire and Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust (2015-)
  • Member, Anthropocene Working Group, International Commission of Stratigraphy (2013- )
  • Voting Member of the Cryogenian sub-commission of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (2012-)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Dom铆nguez-Villar, D, Krklec, K, Boomer, I & Fairchild, IJ 2021, '', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 797, 149188.

Bian, F, Coleborn, K, Flemons, I, Baker, A, Treble, PC, Hughes, CE, Baker, A, Andersen, MS, Tozer, MG, Duan, W, Fogwill, CJ & Fairchild, IJ 2019, '', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 662, pp. 180-191.

Wynn, PM, Fairchild, IJ, Borsato, A, Sp枚tl, C, Hartland, A, Baker, A, Frisia, S & Baldini, JUL 2018, '', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 226, pp. 69-83.

Fairchild, IJ, Spencer, AM, Ali, DO, Anderson, RP, Anderton, R, Boomer, I, Dove, D, Evans, JD, Hambrey, MJ, Howe, J, Sawaki, Y, Shields, GA, Skelton, A, Tucker, ME, Wang, Z & Zhou, Y 2018, '', Precambrian Research, vol. 319, pp. 37-64.

Klaebe, RM, Smith, MP, Fairchild, IJ, Fleming, EJ & Kennedy, MJ 2017, '', Precambrian Research.

Waters, CN, Zalasiewicz, J, Summerhayes, C, Fairchild, IJ, Rose, NL, Loader, NJ, Shotyk, W, Cearreta, A, Head, MJ, Syvitski, JPM, Williams, M, Wagreich, M, Barnosky, AD, Zhisheng, A, Leinfelder, R, Jeandel, C, Ga艂uszka, A, Ivar Do Sul, JA, Gradstein, F, Steffen, W, Mcneill, JR, Wing, S, Poirier, C & Edgeworth, M 2017, '', Earth Science Reviews.

Ali, DO, Spencer, AM, Fairchild, IJ, Chew, KJ, Anderton, R, Levell, BK, Hambrey, MJ, Dove, D & Le Heron, DP 2017, '', Precambrian Research.

Zalasiewicz, J, Waters, CN, Summerhayes, CP, Wolfe, AP, Barnosky, AD, Cearreta, A, Crutzen, P, Ellis, E, Fairchild, IJ, Ga艂uszka, A, Haff, P, Hajdas, I, Head, MJ, Ivar Do Sul, JA, Jeandel, C, Leinfelder, R, Mcneill, JR, Neal, C, Odada, E, Oreskes, N, Steffen, W, Syvitski, J, Vidas, D, Wagreich, M & Williams, M 2017, '', Anthropocene, vol. 19, pp. 55-60.

Dominguez-Villar, D, Krklec, K, Pelicon, P, Fairchild, I, Cheng, H & Edwards, RL 2016, '', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Fleming, E, Stevenson, C, Fairchild, I, Benn, DI, Petronis, MS & Hambrey, MJ 2016, '', Sedimentology, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 411鈥�442.

Treble, PC, Fairchild, I, Baker, A, Meredith, KT, Anderson, MS, Salmon, SU, Bradley, C, Wynn, PM, Hankin, S, Wood, A & McGuire, E 2016, '', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 184, pp. 132-150.

Fairchild, I, Stevenson, C, McMillan, E, Fleming, E, Grassineau, N, Bonnand, P, Parkinson, I, Halverson, G & Hambrey, M 2016, '', Precambrian Research, vol. 281, pp. 128-154.

Fairchild, I, Fleming, E, Huiming, B, Benn, DI, Boomer, I, Dublyansky, Y, Halverson, G, Hambrey, MJ, Hendy, C, McMillan, E, Spotl, C, Stevenson, C & Wynn, P 2015, '', Sedimentology.

Treble, PC, Fairchild, IJ, Griffiths, A, Baker, A, Meredith, KT, Wood, A & McGuire, E 2015, '', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 127, pp. 61-72.

Muller, CL, Baker, A, Fairchild, IJ, Kidd, C & Boomer, I 2015, '', Journal of Hydrometeorology, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 194-213.