Anthony J. Bowen

Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
1355 Oxford Street
Halifax, NS, B3H 4J1 Room 5670 LSC

Phone: (902) 494-7082
   Fax: (902) 494-2885
Email: tony.bowen@Dal.Ca
Webpage: http://www.phys.ocean.dal.ca/people/po/Bowen_Tony.html

Education Background

• PhD - Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California
• MA - Mechanical Sciences, Sidney Sussex College
• BA - Mechanical Sciences, Sidney Sussex College

Awards and Honours

• Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 1994
• Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 1995
• Killam Professor of Oceanography, Dalhousie

Research Interests

• Physical oceanography of the coastal and continental shelf regions
• Nearshore circulation
• Boundary processes
• Sediment transport

Mulligan, R.P., A.J. Bowen, A.E. Hay, A.J. van der Westhuysen, and J.A. Battjes - 2008 - Whitecapping and wave field evolution in a coastal bay - J. Geophy.Res., 113, C03008, doi:10.1029/2007JC004382

Mulligan, R.P., A.E. Hay, and A.J. Bowen - 2008 - Wave-driven circulation in a coastal bay during the landfall of a hurricane - J. Geophy.Res., 113, C05026, doi:10.1029/2007JC004500

Zou, Q.-P., Hay, A.E., Bowen, A.J. - 2003 - Vertical structure of surface gravity waves propagating over a sloping sea bed: theory and field measurements. - J. Geophys. Res.,108 (8), 3265, 10.1029/2002JC001432, 21-1 - 21-15.

Henderson, S.M., and Bowen, A.J. - 2003 - Simulations of dissipative, shore-oblique infragravity waves. - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 33, 1722-1732.

Henderson, S.M., and Bowen, A.J. - 2002 - Surf beat forcing and dissipation. - Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, doi:10.1029/2000JC000498.

Amos, C.L., Bowen, A.J., Huntley, D.A., Judge, J.T. and Li, M.Z. - 1999 - Ripple migration and sand transport under quasi-orthogonal combined flows on the Scotian Shelf. - Journal of Coastal Research, 15(1), 1-14

Bryan, K.R. and Bowen, A.J. - 1998 - Bar-trapped edge waves and longshore currents. - Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 27867-27884.

Bryan, K.R. and Bowen, A.J. - 1998 - Field observations of bar-trapped edge waves. - Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 1285-1306.

Lippman, T.C., Holman, R.A., and Bowen, A.J. - 1997 - Generation of edge waves in shallow water. - Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 8663-8679.

Hazen, D.A., and Bowen, A.J. - 1996 - UDATS II, data acquisition in a client server environment. - Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 21(3), 305-312.

Bryan, K.R., and Bowen, A.J. - 1996 - Edge wave trapping and amplification of barred beaches. - Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 6543-6552.

Sturley, D.R.M., and Bowen, A.J. - 1996 - A model for contaminant transport in Lunenburg Bay, Nova Scotia. - The Science of the Total Environment, 179, 161-172.

Doering, J.C., and Bowen, A.J. - 1995 - Parameterization of orbital velocity asymmetries of shoaling and breaking waves using bispectral analysis. - Coastal Engineering, 26, 15-33.

Bowen, A.J., Griffin, D.A., Hazen, D.G., Matheson, S.A., and Thompson, K.R. - 1995 - Ship-board nowcasting of shelf circulation. - Continental Shelf Research, 15(1), 115-128.

Xu, Z., and Bowen, A.J. - 1994 - Wave- and wind-driven flow in water of finite depth. - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 24, 1850-1866.

Hay, A.E., and Bowen, A.J. - 1994 - On the Coherence Scales of Wave-Induced Suspended Sand Concentration Fluctuations. - J. Geophys. Res., 99, 12749-12765.

Howd, P.A., Bowen, A.J., Holman, R.A. - 1992 - Edge waves in the presence of strong longshore currents. - Journal of Geophsical Research, 97, 11357-11371.

Vincent, C.W., Hanes, D.M., and Bowen, A.J. - 1991 - Acoustic measurement of suspended sand on the shoreface and the control of concentration by bed roughness. - Marine Geology, 96, 1-18.

Stacey, M.W., and Bowen, A.J. - 1990 - A comparison of an autosuspension criteria with field observations of five turbidity currents. - Sedimentology, 37, 1-5