Dr Ian Boomer

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Honorary Associate Professor in Micropalaeontology

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 5536 (Office)
Telephone (2): +44 (0)121 414 2866 (Lab)
Fax: +44 (0)121 414 5528
Email: i.boomer@bham.ac.uk

Address: University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Ian is a micropalaeontologist who studies calcareous microfossils, particularly ostracods (microscopic Crustacea), but also benthic foraminifera, to reconstruct past environments.

Qualifications

1989 - PhD in Early Jurassic ostracods form North-west Europe - University College London
1985 - MSc in Micropalaeontology - University College London
1984 - BSc - University of Leicester

Teaching

Ian contributes to year 2 modules on Palaeoecology and Sedimentology and year 3 Basins module which includes the Spain field course. In the 4th year of the MSci programme I lead the Placements, Advanced Skills and Advanced Project modules.

Doctoral research

PhD title: My PhD was entitled "The temporal and spatial distribution of Early Jurassic Ostracoda from North West Europe"

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Marsden, MK, Gunn, J, Maidment, SCR, Nichols, G, Wheeley, JR, Russell, CE, Boomer, I, Stukins, S & Butler, RJ 2024, '', Journal of the Geological Society.

Edgar, K, MacLeod, KG, Hasegawa, T, Hanson, E, Boomer, I & Kirby, N 2022, '', Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, vol. 369.

Asrat, A, Baker, A, Duan, W, Leng, MJ, Boomer, I, Akter, R, Mariethoz, G, Adler, L, Jex, CN, Yadeta, M & Wang, L 2022, '', Quaternary Research (United States), vol. 110, pp. 67-81.

Boomer, I, Copestake, P, Page, K, Huxtable, J, Loy, T, Bown, P, Dunkley Jones, T, O'Callaghan, M, Hawkes, S, Halfacree, D, Reay, H & Caughtry, N 2021, '', Geological Society Special Publication, vol. 514, no. 1, pp. 239-268.

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

Boomer, I, Binti Azmi, A, Copestake, P & Raine, R 2021, '', Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, vol. 132, no. 6, pp. 657-666.

Raine, RJ, Fenton, J, Boomer, I, Azmi, A & Copestake, P 2021, '', Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, vol. 132, no. 6, pp. 641-656.

Maddy, D, Veldkamp, A, Demir, T, Ayta莽, AS, Schoorl, JM, Scaife, R, Boomer, I, Stemerdink, C, Van Der Schriek, T, Aksay, S & Lievens, C 2020, '', Geomorphology, vol. 358, 107102, pp. 1-18.

Mauquoy, D, Payne, RJ, Babeshko, KV, Bartlett, R, Boomer, I, Bowey, H, Evans, CD, Ring-Hrubesh, F, Muirhead, D, O'Callaghan, M, Piotrowska, N, Rush, G, Sloan, T, Smeaton, C, Tsyganov, AN & Mazei, YA 2020, '', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 240, 106391.

Sekeryapan, C, Streurman, HJ, van der Plicht, J, Woldring, H, van der Veen, Y & Boomer, I 2020, '', Catena, vol. 188, 104437.

Boomer, I, Copestake, P, Raine, R, Binti Azmi, A, Fenton, J, Page, K & O'Callaghan, M 2020, '', Proceedings of the Geologists' Association.

Raine, R, Copestake, P, Simms, M & Boomer, I 2020, '', Proceedings of the Geologists' Association.

Ray, D, Jarochowska, E, R枚stel, P, Worton, G, Munnecke, A, Wheeley, J & Boomer, I 2019, '', Geological Magazine.

Ridha, D, Boomer, I & Edgar, KM 2019, '', Journal of Micropalaeontology, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 189-229.

Spadi, M, Gliozzi, E, Boomer, I, Stoica, M & Athersuch, J 2019, '', Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, vol. 17, no. 19, pp. 1665鈥�1698.