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William B. Bowden is affiliated with the University of Vermont in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines including Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Arts and Humanities, with notable emphasis on atmospheric science, ecology, archaeology, environmental chemistry, and water science and technology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics that include climate change and permafrost, soil and water nutrient dynamics, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, ancient Mediterranean archaeology and history, hydrology and watershed management studies, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Among William B. Bowden's recent peer-reviewed papers are:

  • Land Use and Season Influence Event-Scale Nitrate and Soluble Reactive Phosphorus Exports and Export Stoichiometry from Headwater Catchments, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Arctic concentration-discharge relationships for dissolved organic carbon and nitrate vary with landscape and season, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • We cannot shrug off the shoulder seasons: addressing knowledge and data gaps in an Arctic headwater, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Tundra wildfire triggers sustained lateral nutrient loss in Alaskan Arctic, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Superlinear scaling of riverine biogeochemical function with watershed size, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequently collaborating with the scientist are co-authors Arial J. Shogren, Jay P. Zarnetske, Benjamin W. Abbott, Frances Iannucci, and Andrew W. Schroth.

Their publications have appeared predominantly in these venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Water Resources Research
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Limnology and Oceanography

William B. Bowden has contributed to the academic literature beyond journal articles through book publications with Oxbow Books. Notable works include "Byzantine Butrint" and "Butrint 5: Life and Death at a Mediterranean Port," both published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Control of nitrogen export from watersheds by headwater streams

    Bruce J. Peterson;Wilfred M. Wollheim;Patrick J. Mulholland;Jackson R. Webster

  • Reviews and syntheses: Effects of permafrost thaw on Arctic aquatic ecosystems

    J. E. Vonk;S. E. Tank;W. B. Bowden;I. Laurion

  • Inter‐biome comparison of factors controlling stream metabolism

    P. J. Mulholland;Christy Susan Fellows;J. L. Tank;N. B. Grimm

  • The biogeochemistry of nitrogen in freshwater wetlands

    William B. Bowden

  • High-throughput analysis of single hematopoietic stem cell proliferation in microfluidic cell culture arrays

    Véronique Lecault;Michael VanInsberghe;Sanja Sekulovic;David J H F Knapp

  • Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change

    E. A. G. Schuur;B. W. Abbott;W. B. Bowden;V. Brovkin

  • AEDGE: Atomic experiment for dark matter and gravity exploration in space

    Yousef Abou El-Neaj;Cristiano Alpigiani;Sana Amairi-Pyka;Henrique Araújo

  • AION: An Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network

    L. Badurina;E. Bentine;D. Blas;K. Bongs

  • Factors affecting ammonium uptake in streams – an inter‐biome perspective

    Jackson R. Webster;Patrick J. Mulholland;Jennifer L. Tank;H. Maurice Valett

  • N uptake as a function of concentration in streams

    Walter K. Dodds;Amanda J. Lopez;William B. Bowden;Stan Gregory

  • Multi-variable and multi-site calibration and validation of SWAT in a large mountainous catchment with high spatial variability

    Wenzhi Cao;Wenzhi Cao;William B. Bowden;Tim Davie;Andrew Fenemor

  • Sediment and nutrient delivery from thermokarst features in the foothills of the North Slope, Alaska: Potential impacts on headwater stream ecosystems

    William B. Bowden;Michael N. Gooseff;Michael N. Gooseff;A. Balser;A. Green;A. Green

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Long‐term responses of the kuparuk river ecosystem to phosphorus fertilization

    K. Slavik;B. J. Peterson;L. A. Deegan;W. B. Bowden

  • Elevated dissolved organic carbon biodegradability from thawing and collapsing permafrost

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Julia R. Larouche;Jeremy B. Jones;William B. Bowden

  • Can uptake length in streams be determined by nutrient addition experiments? Results from an interbiome comparison study

    P. J. Mulholland;J. L. Tank;J. R. Webster;W. B. Bowden

  • Can't See the Forest for the Stream? In-stream Processing and Terrestrial Nitrogen Exports

    Emily S. Bernhardt;Gene E. Likens;Robert O. Hall;Don C. Buso

  • Gaseous nitrogen emmissions from undisturbed terrestrial ecosystems: An assessment of their impacts on local and global nitrogen budgets

    William B. Bowden

  • High-frequency dissolved organic carbon and nitrate measurements reveal differences in storm hysteresis and loading in relation to land cover and seasonality

    M. C. H. Vaughan;W. B. Bowden;J. B. Shanley;A. Vermilyea

  • Test of Special Relativity Using a Fiber Network of Optical Clocks.

    P. Delva;J. Lodewyck;S. Bilicki;E. Bookjans

  • A cross-system comparison of bacterial and fungal biomass in detritus pools of headwater streams.

    Stuart E. G. Findlay;J. Tank;S. Dye;H.M. Valett

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael N. Gooseff
Michael N. Gooseff University of Colorado Boulder
Wilfred M. Wollheim
Wilfred M. Wollheim University of New Hampshire
Bruce J. Peterson
Bruce J. Peterson Marine Biological Laboratory
Jeremy B. Jones
Jeremy B. Jones University of Alaska Fairbanks
William H. McDowell
William H. McDowell University of New Hampshire
Benjamin W. Abbott
Benjamin W. Abbott Brigham Young University
James P. McNamara
James P. McNamara Boise State University
Walter K. Dodds
Walter K. Dodds Kansas State University
Anne E. Hershey
Anne E. Hershey University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Jennifer L. Tank
Jennifer L. Tank University of Notre Dame

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