Adam O. Brown

Dr Adam Oliver Brown Ph.D, HBSc, BSc, is an assistant professor of ecology, evolution and environmental sciences at the department of Biology at the University of Ottawa.
He studied his undergraduate degrees at the University of Western Ontario ("UWO") (B.Sc. in Biology and Environmental Science, 1996 and B.Sc. (Honours Standing) in Ecology and Evolution, 1998). While at Western, he was member and then captain of the UWO fencing team which was successful in winning several league and individual medals and championships. He was awarded a Ph.D in the pollination ecology of cloudberry and cranberry at Laval University in Quebec City in 2005 .
First Degree
During his first degree at Western Brown took a sabbatical year off from his studies in order to live and work in St Ives, Cornwall in England and then in Nice, France, where he played music in bars on the French Riviera in Nice, Cannes and Monaco, either solo or as part of a blues duo called "Stinkfoot" with a French guitarist appropriately named Pierre (1994-1995). His graduate studies were undertaken at Université Laval in Quebec City, studying the pollination ecology of cloudberry and cranberry plants (Ph.D. 2005). While in Quebec City Adam created and hosted a popular radio program on CKRL 89.1FM entitled "Life, the Universe and Everything". He moved to Ottawa in the summer of 2006 after a two year post-doctoral research fellowship in northern Quebec, studying the pollination ecology of wild berry plants for the Centre de Recherche Les Buissons (2005-2006).
Musical Interest
Dr. Brown has also performed as a musician in various outfits internationally and has danced on an international folk dancing troupe for most of his life. He comes from a very artistic family, which helps to explain these tendencies. His father Alistair Brown is a folk musician and dancer performing with Friends of Fiddler's Green, and his mother Rosemary Donovan is a photographer and his younger brother Luke is a visual artist.
While living in Quebec City as a graduate student, Adam founded and was the lead guitarist and vocalist of a jazz groove band called , named for his love of the non-linear geometry of fractals and chaos. Other band members included Francois Gariépy (bass and vocals), Max Légaré (drums) and occasionally Antoine Gignac (keyboards).
In early 2006, an assemblage of offspring from The Friends of Fiddler's Green put together an ad-hoc band of their own, exclusively to perform at the David Parry Memorial concert. This band, called The Kin of Fiddler's Green was composed of Richard Reed Parry, Evalyn Parry , Duncan Cameron, Stefan Read and Adam Brown.
Publications
1) Pelletier, L., A. Brown, B. Otrysko and J.N. McNeil. 2001. Entomophily of the cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus L.). Entomologia experimentalis et applicata. 101: 219-224.
2) Brown, A.O. and J.N. McNeil. 2006. Fruit production in cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.): a bet-hedging strategy to optimize reproductive effort. American Journal of Botany. 93: 910-916.
3) Brown, A.O. and J.N. McNeil. Pollination ecology of the high latitude, dioecious cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus L.): generalization or specialization? Submitted.

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