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Dave Bowling

Professor

Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder

Graduate Program Membership:

Office/Building: ASB 508
Email: david.bowling@utah.edu
Bowling Lab: http://bowling.biology.utah.edu/

Research Statement

We are scientists who study the biophysical factors that control Earth's carbon and water cycles, and how these cycles are being modified by environmental change. We are primarily focused on the land-atmosphere exchange of energy, water, and carbon dioxide, in forests, grasslands, and arid lands that experience seasonal snow cover. Our work is interdisciplinary, merging basic science approaches from ecology, hydrology, physics, and geochemistry. In recent years our focus has become increasingly computational, mining existing Earth system datasets with statistical learning and modeling.

Research Interests

General Interests
Specific Interests
  • Ecosystem ecology of forests and aridlands
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Biosphere-atmosphere interactions
  • Environmental change

Selected Publications

  • Seyednasrollah B, Bowling DR, Cheng R, Logan BA, Magney TS, Frankenberg C, Yang JC, Young A, Hufkens K, Arain MA, Black TA, Blanken PD, Bracho R, Jassal R, Hollinger DY, Law BE, Nesic Z, Richardson AD (2021) Seasonal variation in the canopy color of temperate evergreen conifer forests, New Phytologist, DOI: 10.1111/nph.17046
  • Walter-MacNeill A, Garcia M, Logan B, Bombard D, Reblin J, Southwick C, Sparrow E, Bowling DR (2021) Wide variation of winter-induced sustained thermal energy dissipation in conifers: a common-garden study, Oecologia, DOI:10.1007/s00442-021-05038-y
  • Kannenberg SA, Bowling DR, Anderegg WRL (2020) Hot moments in ecosystem fluxes: High GPP anomalies exert outsized influence on the carbon cycle and are differentially driven by moisture availability across biomes, Environmental Research Letters 15:054004, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab7b97
  • Magney TS, Bowling DR, Logan BA, Grossmann K, Stutz J, Blanken PD, Burns SP, Cheng R, Garcia MA, Kӧhler P, Lopez S, Parazoo N, Raczka B, Schimel D, Frankenberg C (2019) Mechanistic evidence for tracking the seasonality of photosynthesis with solar-induced fluorescence, Proc. National Academy of Sciences, DOI:10.1073/pnas.1900278116
  • Bowling DR, Logan BA, Hufkens K, Aubrecht DM, Richardson AD, Burns SP, Anderegg WRL, Blanken PD, Eiriksson D (2018) Limitations to winter and spring photosynthesis of a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 252:241-255, DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.01.025

Courses Taught

  • Biol 5490: Ecosystem Ecology
  • Biol/Atmos/Geo 5495: Biophysical Ecology Biol/Atmos/Geo 5495: Biophysical Ecology Biol/Atmos/Geo 5495: Biophysical Ecology Biol/Atmos/Geo 5495: Biophysical Ecology
  • Biol 7473/7475: Stable Isotope Ecology Biol 7473/7475: Stable Isotope Ecology Biol 7473/7475: Stable Isotope Ecology Biol 7473/7475: Stable Isotope Ecology