Tim Brown Email & Phone Number

Canberra, Act, Au

Co-owner, lead scientist and project manager for TimeScience LLCTimeScience was founded in in 2006 by myself and Christopher Zimmermann. At TimeScience, I developed camera systems and created analytical tools for plant monitoring, near remote sensing (phenocams) and long term ecosystem monitoring. The core focus of all my work was to improve the technological tools available for conservation and ecological research and to promote improved data sharing in the sciences. Recent Projects2008-2012: Designing and installation of tower-based visible and infrared camera networks to ground-truth regional scale satellite data. This work was a collaboration with Dr's Pamela Nagler (USGS) and Kevin Hultine (Desert Botanical Garden, AZ). These data sets allow us to better model invasive species impacts and bio-remediation efforts in the desert Southwest (Nagler, 2012). 2009 - 2102: In a collaboration with Dr. Justin Borevitz (ANU & U Chicago) I developed a multi-billion pixel resolution time-lapse camera called Gigavision (Brown, 2012). This camera enables collection of plant phenology data from every plant in a 100 hectare area at an average resolution of 1px/m2. My work with Dr. Borevitz at ANU led me to an interest in applying my diverse skills in complex data analysis, computational modeling and camera system development to tackle the pressing question of identifying the genetic loci that control growth in plants. I am also continuing work developing the Gigavision system for ecosystem monitoring. The combination of these two novel techniques – camera-based high throughput phenology in growth chambers and automated collection of high-resolution ecological data at field sites – can provide key advances in the fields of crop science, genomics and landscape ecology.

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Australian National University, Canberra, Act, Australia

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

At PEB I am continuing my work developing innovative hardware and software systems to support high throughput phenotyping, with a particular focus on building lower cost, open source solutions to enable wider and more rapid adoption of phenotyping tools.

Borevitz Lab, Division Of Plant Science, Research School Of Biology

My research focuses on adapting emerging imaging and sensing technologies and developing novel software to facilitate next generation ecology research across scales from genomics studies in growth chambers to high-resolution phenological research at the landscape level.Growth chamber studies allow highly targeted dissection of the genetic basis of plant growth and development. At the ecosystem level, the “Gigavision” monitoring tools we are developing enable landscape-scale phenology studies and targeted genetic analysis of thousands of individuals in wild plant populations.We are currently focused on developing a "seeds to traits" phenomics pipeline.

Salt Lake City, Utah

My PhD linked complexity theory and ecology and evolution to model how Eciton burchellii army ants organize their complex swarms. I did field work and computational modeling to create the most accurate existing individual based model of army ant swarming behavior. Data collection involved filming ants in the field in Costa Rica, then writing software to enable me to manually track the positions of over 30,000 ants in swarming videos. These data were used to develop an algorithm describing how ants make behavior decisions in the swarm. The algorithm was used to create an individual based model that effectively reproduced army ant swarming behaviors.

Greater Seattle Area

• Designed and built image management, tracking and ordering system in FileMaker to facilitate distribution of an 8,000 image slide library for the environmental organization LightHawk. • Responsible for website design and website updates.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd

Bachelor Of Science - Bs

Bachelor'S Of Science