Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Vancouver, BC
Supervisor: Prof. T. Andrew Black
Thesis: The carbon, water and energy balances of two lodgepole pine stands recovering from mountain pine beetle attack in British Columbia
2006 – 2011
Agriculture and Life Sciences, Christchurch, New Zealand
Supervisors: Dr. David Whitehead and Prof. Tim Clough
Thesis: The regulation of soil surface respiraiton in a grazed pasture in New Zealand
2005 – 2006
Department of Geography, Victoria, BC
1996 – 2000
Department of Computer Science, Toronto, ON
Jan 2014 – present
Working at the intersection of climate change science, web development and data visualization. Building interactive web-maps and data visualizations to communicate the effects of climate change.
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Aug 2012 – Dec 2013
Examined the drivers of carbon dioxide and methane fluxes from Ontario peatlands. Installed eddy covariance and meteorological measurement stations in remote field locations, implement and improve QA/QC procedures and have submitted a paper to a peer-reviewed journal.
Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology
Jan 2011 – Jul 2012
Installed and used an atmospheric stable water vapour isotope analyzer in a tropical rain forest in Indonesia. Established data acquisition procedures, analyzed data and a wrote a scientific paper.
M. Brown, E. Humphreys, Tim R. Moore, Nigel T. Roulet, and Peter M. Lafleur. Evidence for a nonmonotonic relationship between ecosystem-scale peatland methane emissions and water table depth Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences doi/10.1002/2013JG002576
E. Humphreys, C. Charron, M Brown, and R Jones. Three Bogs in the Canadian Hudson Bay Lowlands and a Temperate Bog Reveal Similar Annual Net Ecosystem Exchange of CO2. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1657/1938-4246.46.1.103
A. Mathys, TA. Black, Z. Nesic, G. Nishio, M. Brown, DL. Spittlehouse, AL. Fredeen, R. Bowler, RS. Jassal, NJ. Grant, PJ. Burton, and J.A. Trofymow. Carbon balance of a partially-harvested mixed conifer forest following mountain pine beetle attack and its comparison to a clearcut. Biogeosciences doi:10.5194/bg-10-5451-2013
M. Brown, TA. Black, Z. Nesic, A. Fredeen, V. Foord, D. Spittlehouse, R. Bowler, P. Burton, J. Trofymow, N. Grant and D. Lessard. Evapotranspiration and canopy characteristics of two lodgepole pine stands following mountain pine beetle attack. Hydrological Processes DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9870
M. Brown, TA. Black, Z. Nesic, AL. Fredeen, VN. Foord, DL. Spittlehouse, R. Bowler, PJ. Burton, JA. Trofymow, NJ. Grant, and D. Lessard. The carbon balance of two lodgepole pine stands recovering from mountain pine beetle attack in British Columbia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology,153:82-93, 2012
R. Bowler, A. Fredeen, M. Brown, and T. Black. Residual vegetation importance to net CO2 uptake in pine-dominated stands following mountain pine beetle attack in British Columbia, Canada. Forest Ecology and Management, 269: 82-91, 2012
T. O'Halloran, B. Law, M. Goulden, Z .Wang, J. Barr, C. Schaaf, M. Brown, J. Fuentes, M. Goeckede, TA. Black, V. Engel. Radiative forcing of natural forest disturbances. Global Change Biology,18:555-565,2012
BD. Amiro, AG. Barr, JG. Barr, TA. Black, R. Bracho, M. Brown, J. Chen, KL. Clark, KJ. Davis, AR. Desai, S. Dore, V. Engel, JD. Fuentes, ML. Goulden, TE. Kolb, MB. Lavigne, BE. Law, HA. Margolis, T. Martin, JH. McCaughey, M. Montes-Helu, A. Noormets, JT. Randerson, G. Starr, J. Xiao, Ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes after disturbance in forests of North America. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, 2010
M. Brown, TA. Black, Z. Nesic, VN. Foord, DL. Spittlehouse, A.L Fredeen, NJ. Grant, PJ. Burton, and JA. Trofymow. Impact of mountain pine beetle on the net ecosystem production of lodgepole pine stands in British Columbia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 150:254-264, 2010
M. Brown, D. Whitehead, J.E. Hunt, T.J. Clough, G.C. Arnold, W.T. Baisden, and R.R. Sherlock. Regulation of soil surface respiration in a grazed pasture in New Zealand. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 149:205-213, 2009
T. Hilker, N.C. Coops, S.B. Coggins, M.A. Wulder, M. Brown, T.A. Black, Z. Nesic, and D. Lessard. Detection of foliage conditions and disturbance from multi-angular high spectral resolution remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment,113:421-434, 2009