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Publications

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Bataille C. P.* and Bowen G. J. (in press) Mapping 87Sr/86Sr variations in bedrock and water for large scale provenance studies. Chemical Geology.

Chesson L. A., Tipple B. J., Howa J. D., Bowen G. J., Barnette J. E., Cerling T. E. and Ehleringer J. R. (in press) Treatise on Geochemistry.

Podlesak D.W., Bowen G.J., O'Grady S., Cerling T.E. and Ehleringer J.R. (in press) δ2H and δ18O of human body water: A GIS model to distinguish residents from nonresidents in the contiguous United States. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies.

Sachse D., Billault I., Bowen G.J., Chikaraishi Y., Dawson T., Feakins S.J., Freeman K.H., Magill C.R., McInerney F.A., van der Meer M.T.J., Polissar P., Robins R., Sachs J.P., Schmidt H.-L., Sessions A.L., White J.W.C., West J.B. and Kahmen A. (in press) Molecular paleohydrology: Interpreting the hydrogen-isotopic composition of lipid biomarkers from photosynthetic organisms. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Bowen G. J., Kennedy C. D.*, Liu Z.* and Stalker J.* (2011) Water balance model for mean annual hydrogen and oxygen isotope distributions in surface waters of the contiguous USA. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, G04011. doi:10.1029/2010JG001581.

Bowen G. J. (2011) A faster water cycle. Science, 332, 430-431. doi:10.1126/science.1205253.

Buzon M. R., Conlee C. A. and Bowen G. J. (2011) Refining oxygen isotope analysis in the Nasca region of Peru: An investigation of water sources and archaeological samples. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 21, 446-455. doi:10.1002/oa.1151.

Chesson L. A., Valenzuela L. O., Bowen G. J., Cerling T. E. and Ehleringer J. R. (2011) Consistent predictable patterns in the hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios of animal proteins consumed by humans in the USA. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 25, 3713-3722. doi:10.1002/rcm.5283.

Kennedy C. D.*, Bowen G. J. and Ehleringer J. R. (2011) Temporal variation of oxygen isotope ratios (δ¹⁸O) in drinking water: Implications for specifying location of origin with human scalp hair. Forensic Science International, 208, 156-166. doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.11.021.

Lee H., Zhao L., Bowen G. J., Miller C. C., Kalangi A., Zhang T. and West J. B. (2011) Enabling online geospatial isotopic model development and analysis. Proceedings of the 2011 TeraGrid Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery, 1-8. doi:10.1145/2016741.2016783.

Liu Z.*, Kennedy C. D.* and Bowen G. J. (2011) Pacific/North American teleconnection controls on precipitation isotope ratios across the contiguous United States. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 310, 319-326. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.037.

Rodrigues C., Brunner M., Steiman S., Bowen G. J., Nogueira J. M. F., Gautz L., Prohaska T. and Máguas C. (2011) Isotopes as tracers of the Hawaiian coffee-producing regions. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 59, 10239-10246. doi:10.1021/jf200788p.

Ting S., Wang Y. Q., Clyde W. C., Koch P. L., Tong Y., Meng J., Bowen G. J., Qian L. and Snell K. E. (2011) Asian Early Paleogene chronology and mammalian faunal turnover events. Vertebrate Palasiatica, 49, 1-28.

Wolf N., Bowen G. J. and Martinez del Rio C. (2011) The influence of drinking water on the δD and δ18O values of plasma, blood, and feather of house sparrow tissues. Journal of Experimental Biology, 214, 98-103. doi:10.1242/jeb.050211.

Bowen G. J. (2010) Isoscapes: Spatial pattern in isotopic biogeochemistry. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 38, 161-187. doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152429.

Bowen G. J. (2010) Statistical and geostatistical mapping of precipitation water isotope ratios. In Isoscapes: Understanding Movement, Pattern and Process on Earth Through Isotope Mapping (ed. J. B. West, G. J. Bowen, K. P. Tu and T. E. Dawson), pp. 139-160. Springer.

Bowen G. J. and Zachos J. C. (2010) Rapid carbon sequestration at the termination of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Nature Geoscience, 3, 866-869. doi:10.1038/NGEO1014.

Bowen G. J., West J. B. and Dawson T. E. (2010) Isoscapes in a rapidly changing and increasingly interconnected world. In Isoscapes: Understanding Movement, Pattern and Process on Earth Through Isotope Mapping (ed. J. B. West, G. J. Bowen, K. P. Tu and T. E. Dawson), pp. 425-432. Springer.

Buzon M. R. and Bowen G. J. (2010) Oxygen isotope analysis of residential mobility at the New Kingdom site of Tombos in Nubia. Archaeometry, 52, 855-868. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4754.2009.00503.x.

Chesson L. A., Bowen G. J. and Ehleringer J. R. (2010) Analysis of the hydrogen and oxygen stable isotope ratios of beverage waters without prior water extraction using wavelength-scanned cavity ring-down spectroscopy. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 24, 3205-3213. doi: 10.1002/rcm.4759.

Clyde W. C., Ting S., Snell K. E., Bowen G. J., Tong Y., Koch P. L., Li Q. and Wang Y. (2010) New paleomagnetic and stable isotope results from the Nanxiong Basin, China; Implications for the K/T Boundary and the timing of Paleocene mammalian turnover. Journal of Geology, 118, 131-143. doi:10.1086/649893.

Ehleringer J. R., Thompson A. H., Podlesak D., Bowen G. J., Chesson L. A., Cerling T. E., Park T., Dostie P. and Schwarcz H. (2010) A framework for the incorporation of isotopes and isoscapes in geospatial forensic investigations. In Isoscapes: Understanding Movement, Pattern and Process on Earth Through Isotope Mapping (ed. J. B. West, G. J. Bowen, K. P. Tu and T. E. Dawson), pp. 357-388. Springer.

Gibson J. J., Fekete B. M. and Bowen G. J. (2010) Stable isotopes in large scale hydrological applications. In Isoscapes: Understanding Movement, Pattern and Process on Earth Through Isotope Mapping (ed. J. B. West, G. J. Bowen, K. P. Tu and T. E. Dawson), pp. 389-406. Springer.

Liu Z.*, Bowen G. J. and Welker J. M. (2010) Precipitation isotope gradients reflect atmospheric circulation over the conterminous United States. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D22120, doi:10.1029/2010JD014175.

Nielson K. E.*, Bowen G. J. (2010) Hydrogen and oxygen in brine shrimp chitin reflect environmental water and dietary isotopic composition. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74, 1812-1822. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.12.025.

Thompson A. H., Chesson L. A., Podlesak D. W., Bowen G. J., Cerling T. E. and Ehleringer J. R. (2010) Stable isotope analysis of modern human hair collected from Asia (China, India, Mongolia and Pakistan). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 141, 440-451.

Bowen G. J., Ehleringer J. R., Chesson L. A., Thompson A. H., Podlesak D. W. and Cerling T. E. (2009) Dietary and physiological controls on the hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios of hair from mid-20th century indigenous populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. doi:10.1002/ajpa.21008.

Bowen G. J., West J. B., Vaughn B. H., Dawson T. E., Ehleringer J. R., Fogel M. L., Hobson K. A., Hoogewerff J., Kendall C., Lai C.-T., Miller C. C., Noone D., Schwarcz H. and Still C. J. (2009) Isoscapes to address large-scale Earth Science challenges. Eos: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 90, 109-110.

Bowen G. J. (2008) Spatial analysis of the intra-annual variation of precipitation isotope ratios and its climatological corollaries. JGR, 113, D05113doi:10.1029/2007JD009295.

Bowen G. J., and Bowen B. B. (2008) Mechanisms of PETM global change constrained by a new record from central Utah. Geology, 36(5), 379-382. doi:10.1130/G24597A.1.

Bowen G. J., Daniels A. L., and Bowen B. B. (2008) Paleoenvironmental isotope geochemistry and paragenesis of lacustrine and palustrine carbonates, Flagstaff Formation, central Utah, USA. JSR, 78(3), 162-174.

Bowen G. J., and West J. B. (2008) Isotope landscapes for terrestrial migration research. in Tracking Animal Migration with Stable Isotopes, edited by Hobson K. A. and Wassenaar L. I., pp. 79-105, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Clyde W. C., Tong Y., Snell K. E., Bowen G. J., Ting S., Koch P. L., Li Q., Wang Y., and Meng J. (2008) An integrated stratigraphic record from the Paleocene of the Chijiang Basin, Jiangxi Province (China): Implications for mammalian turnover and Asian block rotations. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 269, 553-563. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.009.

Ehleringer J. R., Bowen G. J., Chesson L. A., West A. G., Podlesak D. W., and Cerling T. E. (2008) Hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios in human hair are related to geography. PNAC, 105(8), 2788-2793. doi:10.1073/pnas.0712228105.

Ehleringer J. R., Cerling T. E., West J. B., Podlesak D. W., Chesson L. A., and Bowen G. J. (2008) Spatial considerations of stable isotope analyses in environmental forensics. in Issues in Environmental Science and Technology volume 26, edited by Hester R. E. and Harrison R. M., pp. 36 - 53, Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing, Cambridge.

Kelly J. F., Bearhop S., Bowen G. J., Hobson K. A., Norris D. R., Wassenaar L. I., West J. B., and Wunder M. B. (2008) Future directions and challenges for using stable isotopes in advancing terrestrial animal migration research. in Tracking Animal Migration with Stable Isotopes, edited by Hobson K. A. and Wassenaar L. I., pp. 129-139, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Bowen G. J., Ehleringer J. R., Chesson L. A., Stange E. and Cerling T. E. (2007) Stable isotope ratios of tap water in the contiguous USA. Water Resources Research, 43, W03419.

Bowen G. J., Ehleringer J. R. and Cerling T. E. (2007) Stable isotopes and human water resources: signals of change. In Stable Isotopes as Indicators of Ecological Change (ed. T. E. Dawson and R. Siegwolf), pp. 285-300. Elsevier Academic Press.

Cerling T. E., Bowen G. J., Ehleringer J. R. and Sponheimer M. (2007) The reaction progress variable and isotope turnover in biological systems. In Stable Isotopes as Indicators of Ecological Change (ed. T. Dawson and R. Siegwolf), pp. 163-172. Elsevier Academic Press.

Sluijs A., Bowen G. J., Brinkhuis H., Lourens L. J. and Thomas E. (2007) The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum super greenhouse: Biotic and geochemical signatures, age models and mechanisms of global change. In Deep Time Perspectives on Climate Change (ed. M. Williams, A. Haywood, J. Gregory and D. N. Schmidt), pp. 323-349. Geological Society of London, TMS Special Publication.

Ting S.-Y., Meng J., Qian L., Wang Y.-Q., Tong Y.-S., Schiebout J. A., Koch P. L., Clyde W. C., Bowen G. J. (2007) Ganungulatum xincunliense, an artiodactyl-like mammal (Ungulata, Mammalia) from the Paleocene, Chijiang Basin, Jiangxi, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 45, 278-286.

Tu K. P., Bowen G. J., Hemming D. H., Kahmen A., Knohl A., Lai C. T. and Werner C. (2007) Stable isotopes as indicators, tracers and recorders of ecological change: Synthesis and outlook. In Stable Isotopes as Indicators of Ecological Change (ed. T. E. Dawson and R. Siegwolf), pp. 399-405. Elsevier Academic Press.

Bowen G. J., Bralower T. J., Delaney M. L., Dickens G. R., Kelly D. C., Koch P. L., Kump L. R., Meng J., Sloan L. C., Thomas E., Wing S. L. and Zachos J. C. (2006) Eocene hyperthermal event offers insight into greenhouse warming. Eos: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union , 87, 165 - 169.

Fox-Dobbs K., Stidham T. A., Bowen G. J., Emslie S. D. and Koch P. L. (2006) Dietary controls on extinction versus survival among avian megafauna in the late Pleistocene. Geology, 34, 685 - 688.

West J. B., Bowen G. J. , Cerling T. E. and Ehleringer J. R. (2006) Stable isotopes as one of nature's ecological recorders. Trends in Ecology & Evolution , 21, 408-414, doi:10.1016/j.tree.2006.04.002.

Bowen G. J. , Chesson L., Nielson K., Cerling T. E. and Ehleringer J. R. (2005) Treatment methods for the determination of d 2 H and d 18 O of hair keratin by continuous-flow isotope-ratio mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry , 19, 2371-2378, doi:10.1002/rcm.2069.

Bowen G. J., Koch P. L., Meng J., Ye J. and Ting S. (2005) Stratigraphy and correlation of fossiliferous late Paleocene-early Eocene strata of the Erlian Basin, Inner Mongolia, China. American Museum Novitates , 3474, 1-26.

Bowen G. J., Wassenaar L. I. and Hobson K. A. (2005) Global application of stable hydrogen and oxygen isotopes to wildlife forensics. Oecologia , 143, 337-348, doi:10.1007/s00442-004-1813-y.

Bowen G. J., Winter D. A., Spero H. J., Zierenberg R. A., Cerling T. E. and Ehleringer J. R. (2005) Stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios of bottled waters of the world. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry , 19, 3442-3450, doi:10.1002/rcm.2216.

Bearhop S., Fiedler W., Furness R. W., Votier S. C., Waldron S., Newton J., Bowen G. J. , Berthold P. and Farnsworth K. (2005) Assortative mating as a mechanism for rapid evolution of a migratory divide. Science , 310, 502-504, doi:10.1126/science.1115661 .

Coe R. S., Stock G. M, Lyons J. J., Beitler B. and Bowen G. J. (2005) Yellowstone hotspot volcanism in California? A paleomagnetic test of the Lovejoy flood basalt hypothesis. Geology , 33, 697-700, doi:10.1130/G21733.1.

Dutton A., Wilkinson B. H., Welker J. M., Bowen G. J. and Lohmann K. C. (2005) Spatial distribution and seasonal variation in 18 O/ 16 O of modern precipitation and river water across the conterminous United States. Hydrological Processes , 19, 4121-4146, doi:10.1002/hyp.5876.

Meng J., Wyss A. R., Hu Y., Wang Y., Bowen G. J. and Koch P. L. (2005) Glires (Mammalia) from the Late Paleocene Bayan Ulan Locality of Inner Mongolia. American Museum Novitates , 3473, 1-25.

Bowen G. J., Beerling D. J., Koch P. L., Zachos J. C. and Quattlebaum T. (2004) A humid climate state during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Nature , 432, 495-499.

Bowen G. J. and Beerling D. J. (2004) An integrated model for soil organic carbon and CO 2 : Implications for paleosol carbonate p CO 2 paleobarometry. Global Biogeochemical Cycles , 18, GB1026, doi:10.1029/2003GB002117 .

Hobson K. A., Bowen G. J. , Wassenaar L. I., Ferrand Y. and Lormee H. (2004) Using stable hydrogen isotope measurements of feathers to infer geographical origins of migrating European birds. Oecologia , 141, 477-488.

Meng J., Bowen G. J. , Koch P. L., Ting S., Li Q. and Jin X. (2004) Gomphos elkema from the Erlian Basin: Evidence for the Early Tertiary Bumbanian Land Mammal Age in Nei-Mongol, China. American Museum Novitates , 3425 , 1-25.

Ting S., Wang Y., Schiebout J. A., Koch P. L., Clyde W. C., Bowen G. J. and Wang Y. (2004) New Early Eocene mammalian fossils from the Hengyang Basin, Hunan, China. Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History , 36, 291-301 .

Bowen G. J. and Revenaugh J. (2003) Interpolating the isotopic composition of modern meteoric precipitation. Water Resources Research , 39 , 1299, doi:10.129/2003WR002086.

Bains S., Norris R. D., Corfield R. M., Bowen G. J. , Gingerich P. D. and Koch P. L. (2003) Marine-terrestrial linkages at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. In Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene (ed. S. L. Wing, P. D. Gingerich, B. Schmitz, and E. Thomas), pp. 1-9. Geological Society of America .

Ting S., Bowen G. J. , Koch P. L., Clyde W. C., Wang Y., Wang Y. and McKenna M. C. (2003) Biostratigraphic, chemostratigraphic, and magnetostratigraphic study across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary in the Hengyang Basin, Hunan, China. In Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene (ed. S. L. Wing, P. D. Gingerich, B. Schmitz, and E. Thomas), pp. 521-535. Geological Society of America .

Wing S. L., Harrington G. J., Bowen G. J. and Koch P. L. (2003) Floral change during the Initial Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming. In Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene (ed. S. L. Wing, P. D. Gingerich, B. Schmitz, and E. Thomas) pp. 425-440. Geological Society of America.

Bowen G. J. and Bloch J. I. (2002) Petrography and geochemistry of floodplain limestones from the Clarks Fork basin, Wyoming, U.S.A.: Carbonate deposition and fossil accumulation on a Paleocene-Eocene floodplain. Journal of Sedimentary Research , 72 , 46-58.

Bowen G. J., Clyde W. C., Koch P. L., Ting S., Alroy J., Tsubamoto T., Wang Y. and Wang Y. (2002) Mammalian dispersal at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary. Science , 295 , 2062-2065.

Bowen G. J. and Wilkinson B. (2002) Spatial distribution of δ¹⁸O in meteoric precipitation. Geology , 30 , 315-318.

Bowen G. J., Koch P. K., Gingerich P. D., Norris R. D., Bains S. and Corfield R. M. (2001) Refined isotope stratigraphy across the continental Paleocene-Eocene boundary on Polecat Bench in the Northern Bighorn Basin. In Paleocene-Eocene Stratigraphy and Biotic Change in the Bighorn and Clarks Fork Basins, Wyoming (ed. P. D. Gingerich), pp. 73-88. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology, 33.

Bloch J. I. and Bowen G. J. (2001) Paleocene-Eocene microvertebrates in freshwater limestones of the Willwood Formation, Clarks Fork basin, Wyoming . In Eocene Biodiversity: Unusual Occurrences and Rarely Sampled Habitats (ed. G. F. Gunnell), pp. 95-129. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.