Rate My Professor Alan Baxter

Dr. Alan Baxter served as a Lecturer in Earth Sciences at the University of New England (UNE) in Armidale, Australia, where he was recognized as the institution's expert in sedimentology and microfossils. He earned his undergraduate degree in Geology from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, in 2005, and his PhD from the University of Hong Kong in 2010. His primary research interests encompass tectonics, sedimentology, and biostratigraphy, with significant contributions to understanding geological processes through microfossil analysis and sedimentary records. Based in the Earth Sciences Building C02, Room 211, Baxter actively engaged in international scientific endeavors, including participation as a paleontologist in Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 344 to the Costa Rica subduction zone in 2013 and Expedition 354 to the Bengal Fan in 2015. During Expedition 354, he contributed to investigations of Himalayan orogeny and climate evolution via a transect across the Middle Bengal Fan, as detailed in related publications.

Baxter's research extended to submarine mass movements, exemplified by his co-authorship on 'Submarine landslides offshore Yamba, NSW, Australia' published in Geological Society Special Publication 477. Key publications include 'Detrital zircon U–Pb ages along the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet: Implications for oblique convergence and collision between India and Asia' (2011), 'Radiolarian age constraints on Mesotethyan ocean evolution, and their implications for development of the Bangong–Nujiang suture, Tibet' (2009), 'Upper Jurassic radiolarians from the Naga ophiolite, Nagaland, northeast India' (2011), 'The geological history of the Latimojong region of western Sulawesi, Indonesia' (2017), and 'Discovery of a Late Devonian magmatic arc in the southern Lancangjiang zone, western Yunnan' (2016). In 2015, he joined an international team studying the geological evolution of the Galapagos Islands and Central America Volcanic Arc, as noted in UNE's Annual Report. His work has advanced knowledge in marine geology, tectonics, and paleontology, reflected in over 1,200 citations on Google Scholar. Baxter delivered public seminars at UNE, such as on IODP Expedition 354 findings in 2015.