Kevin Brown's lab performed their research
via remote control from their home base of
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. They investigated
the geology of the Alaska site using the flux meter.

Kevin Brown is a Professor of Marine Geology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He received his bachelors degree in geology from the University of Edinburgh, Old College, Edinburgh, Scotland, and his graduate degree in geological sciences from the University of Durham, Durham, U.K. The title of his Ph.D. thesis was "Physical and Structural Processes in Accretionary Complexes: The Role of Fluids in Convergent Margin Development". Kevin Brown is the chief scientist on the flux-meter project with Mike Tryon. All of this information can be found on his website: http://sorcerer.ucsd.edu/HTS_Lab/brown.html.

Doing graduate work as a marine geologist, Mike has been exploring the flow of fluids in accretionary prisms in environments such as Alaska. He spends half of his time developing the technique - the flux meter - and the other half in application. Although Mike was not actually on the ship during the Alaska cruise he operated the flux meters via "remote control".

Repeated visits to the aquarium as a child launched Mike's interest in oceanography early on. But after high school Mike wasn't interested in an academic career so he pursued a career as an auto-mechanic, only years later did he decide to take up oceanography full time. Deciding to change careers Mike returned to UCSD to finish his bachelor's degree and continued on to graduate school at Scripps. He worked in two labs at Scripps while finishing his undergraduate degree. In the first lab he did mostly computer programming, applying useful skills he had learned tinkering around earlier in life. Next, Mike was able to concentrate more on geology in Kevin Brown's lab. When Mike became a graduate student he moved right into Kevin's lab and began working on the flux meter project.

Outside of science Mike is an avid cross-country hang glider pilot. His personal record flight is over 100 miles. At first simply being in the air was enough of a thrill, he says, however as he became more experienced his interest shifted to cross-country thermal flying. On one flight he shared the air with a golden eagle.

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