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Dr. Brenda
Beitler
Bowen |
Assistant Professor |
E-mail:
bbowen@purdue.edu |
Associated Website(s):
Sedimentary Geology Group(SED) ,
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Education |
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B.S., Earth Science, 1998, University of California, Santa Cruz
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M.S., Earth Science, 2000, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Ph.D., Geology, 2005, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Advisor: Dr. Marjorie A. Chan - Dissertation: Sandstone bleaching and iron concretions: an index to fluid pathways and diagenetic history in Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, southern Utah (funded by NCS-PRF & GSENM)
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Geology, 2005-2007, Central Michigan University. Advisor: Dr. Kathleen C. Benison - Project: Collaborative research: biogeochemical exploration of acidic and neutral hypersaline environments of Australia (funded by NSF)
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Research Interests |
Interactions among sediments and fluids in both modern and ancient sedimentary environments on scales from microscopic to regional; the effects of depositional and tectonic environment, structure, and hydrogeochemical conditions on burial history and diagenesis; spatial changes in authigenic minerals; redbeds; Mars geology and fluid-rock history; combining field-based studies with analytical laboratory work including petrography, major and trace element geochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry, fluid inclusion analyses, and reflectance and imaging spectroscopy.
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Teaching Interests |
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Diagenesis, Fluids and Basin Evolution, Geologic Remote Sensing, Geology of Mars |
Awards and Honors |
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American Chemical Society- Petroleum Research Fund, Evaluating the History of Eolian and Interdune Fluid-Sediment Interactions and Mass Transfer in an Acid and Redox Influenced Diagenetic System: Mollies Nipple, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, 2007.
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Professional Experience |
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Bowen, B.B. , Martini, B.A., Chan, M.A., & Parry, W.T., 2007, Reflectance spectroscopic mapping of fluid flow pathways in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 91, p. 173-190.
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Beitler, B. , Parry, W.T., & Chan, M.A., 2005, Fingerprints of fluid flow: Chemical diagenetic History of the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, southern Utah: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 75, p. 545-559.
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Beitler, B. , Chan, M.A., Parry, W.T., Ormö, J. &, Komatsu, G., 2004, Diagenetic analogs to hematite regions on Mars: examples from Jurassic sandstones of Southern Utah, USA (Invited Paper), in Proceedings of SPIE Volume 5555, Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology VIII, eds., Hoover, R.B., Levin, G.V., & Rozanov, A.Y., SPIE, Bellingham, WA, p. 162-169
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Beitler, B. , Chan, M.A., & Parry, W.T., 2003, Bleaching of Jurassic Navajo Sandstone on Colorado Plateau Laramide Highs: Evidence of Exhumed Hydrocarbon Supergiants?: Geology, v. 31, p. 1041-1044.
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Benison, K.C. & Bowen, B.B. , 2006, Acid saline lake systems give clues about past environments and the search for life on Mars: Icarus, v. 183, p. 225-229.
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Benison, K.C., Bowen, B.B. , Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., LaClair, D.A., Jagniecki, E.A., Story, S.L., Mormile, M.R., & Hong, B.Y., 2007, Sedimentology of Acid Saline Lakes in Southern Western Australia: Newly Described Processes and Products of an Extreme Environment, v. 77, p. 366-388.
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Chan, M.A., Bowen, B.B. , Parry, W.T., Ormo, J., & Komatsu, G., 2005, Red Rock and Red Planet Diagenesis: Comparisons of Earth and Mars Concretions: GSA Today, v. 15, p. 4-10.
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Chan, M. A., Beitler, B. , and Parry, W. T., 2005, The Navajo Sandstone color palette and marvelous marbles: Canyon Legacy, Moab Museum publication, v. 54, p. 13-16.
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Chan, M.A., Beitler, B. , Parry, W.T, Ormö, J. & Komatsu, G., 2004, A possible terrestrial analogue for hematite concretions on Mars: Nature, v. 429, p. 731-734.
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Coe, R.S., Stock, G.M., Lyons, J.J., Beitler, B. , & Bowen, G.J., 2005, Yellowstone hotspot volcanism in California? A paleomagnetic test of the Lovejoy flood basalt hypothesis: Geology, v. 33, p. 697-700.
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Ormö, J., Komatsu, G., Chan, M.A., Beitler, B. , & Parry, W.T., 2004, Geological features indicative of processes related to the hematite formation in Meridiani Planum and Aram Chaos, Mars: A comparison with diagenetic hematite deposits in southern Utah, USA: Icarus. v. 171, p. 295-316.
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Parry, W.T., Chan M.A., & Beitler, B., 2004, Chemical Bleaching Indicates Episodes of Fluid Flow in Deformation Bands in Sandstone: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 88, p. 175-191.
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Parry, W.T., Forster, C.B., Evans, J.P., Bowen, B.B., & Chan, M.A., 2007, Geochemistry of CO2 sequestration in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Colorado Plateau, Utah: Environmental Geosciences, v. 14, p. 91-109.
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Souza-Egipsy, V., Ormö, J., Bowen, B.B. , Chan, M.A., & Komatsu, G., 2006, Ultrastructural study of iron oxide precipitates: Implications for the search for biosignatures in the Meridiani hematite concretions, Mars: Astrobiology, v. 6, p. 527-545.
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