Bonnie Bowen

Bonnie S. Bowen, Ph.D.
Director, ISU ADVANCE Program

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology &
Department of Natural Ecology Resource & Management
Office: 515.294.7554
Email: bsbowen@iastate.edu
Homepage: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~bsbowen

Education

Ph.D., Genetics, University of California, Berkeley
B.S., Biology, Cornell University

Research Interests

• Conservation genetics of freshwater mussels
• Population genetics and behavior of communally-breeding birds
• Reproductive biology of ground-nesting birds in grassland habitats
• Women and minorities in STEM

Selected Publications

Bhagabati, N. K., J. L., Brown, and B. S. Bowen. 2004. Geographic variation in Mexican Jays (Aphelocoma ultramarina): Local differentiation, polyphyly, or hybridization? Molecular Ecology 13:2721-2734.

Bowen, B. S. 2002. Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris). In The Birds of North America, No. 612 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA.

Koford, R.R., B.S. Bowen, J.T. Lokemoen, and A.D. Kruse. 2000. Cowbird parasitism in grassland and cropland in the northern Great Plains. Pp. 229-235 in J.N.M. Smith, T. Cook, S.I. Rothstein, S.K. Robinson, and S.G. Sealy, eds., Ecology and management of cowbirds and their hosts.