Brown received a master’s in zoology and physiology in 2021 from the University of Wyoming studying Black Rosy-Finch and advised by Dr. Anna Chalfoun. He has worked for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, National Park Service, and many non-profits and universities in the intermountain west.
Brown graduated from the University of Montana in 2009, majoring in Wildlife Biology and International Relations. His field projects have focused on common loons, trumpeter swans, small mammals, ungulates, and disease throughout Montana and Wyoming. Fall 2015 marked the end of a spring banding and summer survey season on Black Rosy-finches in northwest Wyoming. This project was independent to the master program.
Brown’s master’s research investigated the distribution of the Black Rosy-Finch (Leucosticte atrata), an alpine-breeding obligate, in relation to habitat and climatic characteristics including snowpack. Fieldwork related to this masters project took place in the Wind River Range in 2016 and 2017.