Rick Brown

From HSU Expertise Directory

Contents 1 Contact information 2 Affiliations 3 Special duties and responsibilities at HSU 4 Highest degree, field, and alma mater(s) 5 Expertise 6 Publications

[edit] Contact information

Email: rnb2@humboldt.edu

Phone: 707.826.3320

Office: WFB 260

Personal website: www.humboldt.edu/~rnb2

[edit] Affiliations

Department(s):

• Department of Wildlife

HSU Programs

• Wildlife Diseases Club, faculty sponsor
• Nature and Awareness Club, faculty sponsor
• Pre-Veterinary Club, faculty sponsor
• Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
• International Resources Committee
• Biological Safety Committee

Scholarly associations:

• American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians
• American Association of Zoo Veterinarians
• American Society of Mammalogists
• American Veterinary Medical Association
• Entomological Society of America
• Native American Fish and Wildlife Society
• The Wildlife Society (TWS)
• Wildlife Disease Association (WDA)
• World Association of Wildlife Veterinarians

Private sector associations:

• Hoopa Tribal Forestry
• Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation
• Sequoia Park Zoo, primary veternarian

[edit] Special duties and responsibilities at HSU

• Campus Veterinarian
• Oiled Wildlife Care

[edit] Highest degree, field, and alma mater(s)

• D.V.M. (Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine, Individual Track focused on wildlife health), University of California, Davis
• Ph.D. in Parasitology (focus on tick-borne diseases), University of California, Berkeley, 19936
• M.A. in Biology (focus on population ecology), University of Colorado, Boulder, 1986
• B.S. in Zoology (focus on vertebrate ecology), University of California, Davis, 1983

[edit] Expertise

• Wildlife health
• Impacts of disease on the ecology of wildlife populations
• Impacts of disease on the management of wildlife populations
• Impacts of human disturbance
• Disease transmission
• Habitat destruction
• Disturbance
• Degradation
• Interactions with non-native species, predators
• Interactions with non-native species, pathogens
• American black bears
• Small mammals
• Ticks
• Disease agents
• Human anaplasmosis
• Lyme disease
• Douglas fir forest
• Disturbance on wildlife populations
• Vector populations
• Wildlife disease ecology
• Wildlife ecology
• Wildlife diseases
• Mammal management
• Conservation biology
• Conservation parasitology
• Invasive methods
• Translocation
• Contraception
• Captive breeding
• Reintroduction
• Rehabilitation
• Vaccination
• Medical treatment
• Ethical questions regarding invasive methods
• Contemporary management of wildlife
• Animal care
• Animal diseases
• Animal pathology
• Wildlife
• Animal ecology
• Ecology of zoonotic diseases

[edit] Publications

• 1986. Southwick, C. H., S. C. Golian, M. R. Whitworth, J. C. Halfpenny, and R. Brown. Population density and fluctuations of pikas (Ochotona princeps). Journal of Mammalogy, 67:149-153.
• 1986. Brown, R. N. Recruitment, survivorship, and the spacing system of pikas (Ochotona princeps). Unpubl. M.A. thesis. University of Colorado. 79pp.
• 1988. Brown, R. N., C. H. Southwick, and S. C. Golian. Male-female spacing, territorial replacement, and the mating system of pikas (Ochotona princeps). Journal of Mammalogy, 70:622-627.
• 1991. Lane, R. S., and R. N. Brown. Woodrats and kangaroo rats: potential reservoirs of the Lyme disease spirochete in California. Journal of Medical Entomology, 28:299-302.
• 1991. Boyce, W. M. and R. N. Brown. Antigenic characterization of Psoroptes spp. (Acari: Psoroptidae) mites from different hosts. Journal of Parasitology, 77:675-679.
• 1992. Boyce, W. M., R. N. Brown, B. L. Zingg, R. B. LeFebvre, R. S. Lane. First isolation of Borrelia burgdorferi from Southern California. Journal of Medical Entomology, 29(3):496-500.
• 1992. Brown, R. N. and R. S. Lane. Lyme disease in California: a novel enzootic transmission cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi. Science, 256:1439-1442.
• 1993. Brown, R. N. Reservoirs and enzootic maintenance of Borrelia burgdorferi in California: involvement of dusky-footed woodrats and their associated ticks. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Berkeley.
• 1993. Zingg, B. C., R. N. Brown, R. S. Lane, and R. B. LeFebvre. Genetic diversity among Borrelia burgdorferi isolates from wood rats and kangaroo rats in California. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 31:3109-3114.
• 1994. Lane, R. S., R. N. Brown, J. Piesman, and C. A. Peavey. The vector competence of Dermacentor occidentalis and Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) for the Lyme disease spirochete. Journal of Medical Entomology, 31:417-424.
• 1994. Brown, R. N. and R. S. Lane. Infections of Borrelia burgdorferi in woodrats and deer mice: culture of spirochetes from tissues and concurrent inflammatory disease. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 30:389-398.
• 1994. Brown, R. N. Conspecificity of two American vectors of the agent of Lyme disease. Parasitology Today, 10:334-335.
• 1996. Brown, R. N. and R. S. Lane. Reservoir competence of four chaparral-dwelling rodents for Borrelia burgdorferi in California. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 54:84-91.
• 1996. Keirans, J. E., R. N. Brown, and R. S. Lane. Ixodes (Ixodes) jellisoni Cooley and Kohls, and Ixodes (Ixodes) neotomae Cooley (Acari: Ixodidae): descriptions of the immature stages from California. Journal of Medical Entomology, 33:319-327.
• 2001. Brown, R. N. and E. C. Burgess. Lyme borreliosis. Chapter 26 In: Infectious Diseases of Wild Mammals, 3rd edition (E.T. Thorne, E. S. Williams, and I. K. Barker eds.). Iowa State Press. Pgs. 435-454.
• Foley, J. E., P. Foley, R. N. Brown, R. S. Lane, S. J. Dumler, and J. Madigan. Ecology of granulocytic ehrlichiosis in the western United States. In Review.