Dr. Gabriel Bowen

Associate Professor

E-mail: gabe@purdue.edu

Curriculum Vitae <pdf>

Associated website(s): Research Group Web Page, Spatial Analysis of Water Isotopes , Purdue Climate Change Research Center(PCCRC), Purdue Stable Isotope (PSI) Facility

Research Interests

My research interests center on the interaction between climate and terrestrial ecosystems: how climate change effects and is affected by ecosystem change. In my work, I use measurements of naturally occurring light stable isotopes and modeling to identify and characterize these effects in the modern and in Earth’s geological record.

Teaching Interests

EAS 191R Introduction to Earth Sciences

EAS 390 Geological Field Methods

EAS 591B Paleoclimatology

Awards and Honors

09/06 - 08/10 Holocene Water Balance of the Northeastern Great Basin; $401,894; NSF.

09/06 - 08/09 Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Carbon Release and Sequestration: Case Studies of Two Early Eocene Hyperthermals; $179,989 to Purdue Univ.; NSF; Co-PI w/ James Zachos, UCSC, and 7 others.

07/06 - 08/08 A New Feedback on the Carbon Cycle Involving Clays and the Hydrologic Cycle and the Stabilization of Climate During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum; $35,000; American Chemical Society.

06/06 - 05/07 A Novel Paleo-drought Proxy Based on Multiple Stable Isotope Ratios from Brine Shrimp Chitin; $15,292; Purdue Research Foundation

07/06 Towards an Integrative, Web-Based Data Analysis Tool for Water Isotope Networks at Purdue; $7,000; Purdue Research Foundation.

Professional Experience

2006 - present, Assistant Professor, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University

2004 - 2005, Postdoctoral Researcher, Biological Sciences, University of Utah

Selected Publications <More>

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

  • 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. (in press) Isoscapes to address large-scale Earth Science challenges. Eos: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union.

  • Bowen G. J. (2008) Spatial analysis of the intra-annual variation of precipitation isotope ratios and its climatological corollaries. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 113, D05113, doi: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, 379-382.

  • 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. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 78, 162-174.

  • 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 and Planetary Science Letters, 269, 553-563.

  • Ehleringer J. R., Bowen G. J., Chesson L. A., West A. G., Podlesak D. and Cerling T. E. (2008) Hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios in human hair are related to geography. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 2788-2793.

  • 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 analysis in environmental forensics. Issues in Environmental Science and Technology, 26, 36-53.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Norris D. R., Marra P. P., Bowen G. J., Ratcliffe L. M., Royale J. A. and Kyser T. K. (2006) Migratory connectivity of a widely distributed songbird, the American Redstart (Setophaga Ruticilla). Ornithological Monographs, 61, 13-28.

  • 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 δ2H and δ18O 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 18O/16O 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. (A)