Ian Browne, Ph.D.

Ian Browne, Ph.D.

Ian is a postdoctoral fellow at the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, where he co-teaches gross anatomy to first-year medical students, and he is a research associate at the San Diego Natural History Museum. His research interests are focused on the response of small-mammal communities to a period of climate change that occurred approximately 15 million years ago and on developing new methodologies to dramatically decrease the cost of 3D scanning microscopic fossils.

Ian received a BS in geology from California State University San Bernardino in 1999, an MS in geological sciences from the University of California Riverside in 2003, and his Ph.D. at the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences in 2015. Prior to returning to graduate school to pursue his Ph.D. Ian worked for five years as a mitigation paleontologist for the San Diego Natural History Museum’s Department of PaleoServices, where he documented and recovered fossils from construction sites.