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Tony Brown's PhD combined floodplain geomorphology with paleoecology and identified the most important anthropogenic effect on the largest river in Britain, The Severn in his PhD (Southampton, UK). He was subsequently appointed Associate Professor of Soil at the University of Leicester in 1983 and soon after Joint Lecturer in Geography and Archaeology. In 1997 he moved to the University of Exeter where he developed interests in wetland environmental archaeology and pursued his master's degree in wetland archaeology. In 2007 he moved back to the University of Southampton to direct the Palaeoenvironmental Laboratory in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences. At Southampton he had developed research on the use of sedaDNA in paleoecology and environmental archaeology and in 2019 was appointed to a professorship at Tromsø Museum in Norway where he is one of the directors of the ArcECoGEN Aurora Research Centre, UiT Norway. In 1997 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a fellow of the Geological Society of London in 2000.

 

Tony Brown has also been one of the developers of forensic palynology and worked on several high-profile cases, including the Severs, Kinczyk and Neave cases, and has received several of Chief-Constable's praise for his work. In 1997-2003 he was partially posted to the UN-ICTY Bosnian Exhumation Team. He has published paper in this area and was a member of the Forensic Science Advisory Group (FSAG). He has appeared in several TV and radio programmes on this work, including the BBC 'Expert Witness' series (2023-2024).