Department Head, Professor, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

Degrees

Ph.D. Zoology, 1986, Northern Arizona University

M.S. Wildlife Ecology, 1979, University of Missouri-Columbia

B.S. Wildlife Biology, 1975, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Food Systems

• Sustainability

Dr. Brawn’s research related to food security focuses on the interdependency of food security with environmental change and biodiversity.

The current specific areas of his research include: Effects of ecological disturbance on conservation of avian populations and communities; comparative demography of temperate and tropical birds; evolution of life history traits – especially dispersal and clutch size; temporal variation and historical effects on community structure; demography and conservation of small populations; ecology of edges; ecology of urbanization.

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