• The extension of the Belfast tree-ring chronology before 5474BC using bog pine from Ireland
• Involved in the Project Towards a European Research and Data Network for Cultural Tree-ring studies
• Examining the relationship between the size and age of Modern Irish Oaks
• Defining the Environmental Issues indicated by the occurrence of oak samples in archaeological contexts between 2000BC and 1700AD

Current Teaching

GAP2001 Methods for Dating the Past

Administrative Roles

• Chair of the Health and Safety Management Committee, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology
• COSHH officer for Archaeology and Palaeoecology
• Fire officer for Archaeology and Palaeolecology Building

1. Mike Baillie and David Brown. 2009. A Chronological Glimpse into the Later First Millennium BC. In Gabriel Cooney, Katharina Becker, John Coles, Michael Ryan and Susanne Sievers (eds.) Relics of Old Decency: archaeological studies in later prehistory. A Festschrift for Barry Raftery. Wordwell. Dublin. Ireland. 17-24.

2. Alan Hogg, Jonathan Palmer, Gretel Boswijk, Paula Reimer and David Brown. 2009. Investigating the Interhemispheric 14C Offset in the 1st Millennium AD and Assessment of Laboratory Bias and Calibration Errors. Radiocarbon. 51.4. 1177-1186.

3. McCormac, F. G., Bayliss, A., Brown, D. M., Reimer, P. J. and Thompson, M. M. 2008. Extended Radiocarbon Calibration in the Anglo-Saxon Period, AD395-485 and AD735-805. Radiocarbon. 50.1. 11-17.

4. Thomas McErlean and David Brown 2007. The Dating of Mill 1. In Harnessing the Tides: The Early Medieval Tide Mills at Nendrum Monastery, Strangford Lough. By Thomas McErlean and Norman Crothers. Environment Heritage Service. TSO. 68-76.

5. Frank Keppler, David B. Harper, Robert M. Kalin, Wolfram Meier-Augenstein, Nicola Farmer, Simon Davis, Hanns-Ludwig Schmidt, David M. Brown and John T. G. Hamilton. 2007. Stable hydrogen isotope ratios of lignin methoxyl groups as a palaeoclimate proxy and constraint of the geographical origin of wood. New Phytologist. Vol. 176(3) 600-609.

6. Brown, David M. and Baillie, Mike G. L. 2007 Dendrochronology and lessons learned from Irish examples. In E. M. Murphy and N. J. Whitehouse (eds) Environmental Archaeology in Ireland. Oxbow. 18-36.

7. Mark Gardiner, David Brown and Emily Murray. 2006. Timber Fittings and Fixtures in Churches and Secular Vernacular Buildings: Mid-14th Century Timber Stairs at Brabourne Church, Kent. The Journal of the Society for Church Archaeology. Vol. 7/8/9 45-50.

8. Chris S. M. Turney, Mike Baillie, Jonathan Palmer and David Brown. 2006. Holocene climatic change and past Irish societal response. Journal of Archaeological Science. Vol. 33(1) 34-38.

9. David Brown and Mike Baillie. 2005. How old is that OAK? In Ben Simon (ed) A Treasured Landscape the Heritage of Belvoir Park. The Forest of Belfast, Belfast. 73-85.

10. Chris Turney, Mike Baillie, Steve Clemens, David Brown, Jonathan Palmer, Jonathan Pilcher, Paula Reimer and Hanns Hubert Leuschner. 2005. Testing solar forcing of pervasive Holocene climate cycles. Journal of Quaternary Science. Vol. 20(6) 511-518.