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 geo-conservation 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.

Ian 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; glaciation and carbonates in deep time; aqueous Geochemistry in relation to weathering reactions and hydrology in glacial and riverine environments, and experimental studies of mineral-water interactions.