Professor, Geology & Geophysics
Director, Global Change and Sustainability Center, University of Utah
Chair, Atmospheric Sciences

brenda.bowen@utah.edu

Publications

• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Bowen, B.B. (2018). The Making of a Perfect Racetrack at the Bonneville Salt Flats. The Sedimentary Record., 06/01/2018
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wang, F. & Bowen, B.B., Seo, JH, Michalski, G. (2017). Laboratory and field characterization of visible to near infrared spectral reflectance of nitrate minerals from the Atacama Desert, Chile and implications for Mars. American Mineralogist., 12/01/2017
• NATURE & CULTURE | WATER | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Bowen, B.B. & Kipnis, E.L., Raming L.W. (2017). Temporal dynamics of flooding, evaporation, and desiccation cycles and observations of salt crust area change at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. Geomorphology. Vol. 299, 1-11., 10/02/2017
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Ehleringer, J. & Daniel, S., Torti, S., Bowen, B.B., Parks, T. (2017). Embedded in Nature: The University of Utah Field Stations. Global Change and Sustainability Center., 01/02/2017
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Jewell, P.W. & Nelson, D.T., Bowen, B.B., Raming, L.W. (2016). Insights into Lake Bonneville Using Remote Sensing and Digital Terrain Tools. (pp. 598-614). Vol. 20, Development in Earth Surface Processes., 12/01/2016
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | NATURE & CULTURE | ENERGY | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | FOOD SYSTEMS: Ward, M. & Bowen, B.B., Burian, S., Cachelin, A., McCool, D. (2015). Institutionalizing interdisciplinary sustainability curriculum at a large, research-intensive university: Challenges and opportunities Environmental Studies and Sciences. Environmental Studies and Science special issue on Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Leadership., 01/01/2015

Internal Service

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | NATURE & CULTURE | ENERGY | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | AIR QUALITY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Co-Chair of University of Presidential Utah Climate Commitment Task Force , 08/01/2019

Grants

• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Adaptation, Mitigation, and Biophysical Feedbacks in the Changing Bonneville Salt Flats. PI: Brenda Bowen, 06/01/2016