Dr Mike Bowes

Geochemist

Current Work

Mike Bowes is a geochemist researching the source and fate of the major plant nutrients (phosphorus, nitrate and disolved silicon) within river catchments. He specialises in nutrient interactions with river bed-sediment and aquatic biota. and has carried out long-term, catchment-scale studies in order to determine the seasonal pattern of nutrient retention and remobilisation within river systems.

Recent publications

See also the NERC Open Research Archive.

Howden, Nicholas J. K.; Bowes, Michael J.; Humphries, Neil; Neal, Colin. 2009 Water Quality, nutrients and the European Union’s Water Framework Directive in a lowland agricultural region: Suffolk, south-east England. Science of the Total Environment, 407 (8). 2966-2979. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.12.040

Bowes, Michael J.; Smith, Jim T.; Jarvie, Helen P.; Neal, Colin; Barden, Ruth. 2009 Changes in point and diffuse source phosphorus inputs to the River Frome (Dorset, UK) from 1966 to 2006. Science of the Total Environment, 6 (1). 1954-1966. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.11.026

Bowes, Michael J.; Smith, Jim T.; Jarvie, Helen P.; Neal, Colin. 2008 Modelling of phosphorus inputs to rivers from diffuse and point sources. Science of the Total Environment, 395 (2-3). 125-138. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.01.054

Bowes, Michael J.; Smith, Jim T.; Hilton, John; Sturt, Michael M.; Armitage, Patrick D.. 2007 Periphyton biomass response to changing phosphorus concentrations in a nutrient impacted river:a new methodology for phosphorus target setting. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 64. 227-238. 10.1139/F06-180

Recent publications (continued)

Armitage, Patrick D.; Bowes, Michael J.; Vincent, Helen M.. 2007 Long-term changes in macroinvertebrate communities of a heavy metal polluted stream: The River Nent (Cumbria, UK) after 28 years. River Research and Applications, 23 (9). 997-1015. 10.1002/rra.1022

Hilton, John; O'Hare, Matthew; Bowes, Michael J.; Jones, J. Iwan. 2006 How green is my river? A new paradigm of eutrophication in rivers. Science of the Total Environment, 365. 66-83. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.02.055

Kim, Kyunghyun; Kalita, Prasanta; Bowes, Michael J.; Eheart, J. Wayland. 2006 Modelling of river dynamics of phosphorus under unsteady flow conditions. Water Resources Research, 42, W07413. 10.1029/2005WR004210

Smith, J. T.; Bowes, M. J.; Denison, F. H.. 2006 Modelling the dispersion of radionuclides following short duration releases to rivers: Part 1. Water and sediment. Science of the Total Environment, 368. 485-501. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.03.010

Bowes, Michael J.; Hilton, John; Irons, Gordon P.; Hornby, Duncan D.. 2005 The relative contribution of sewage and diffuse phosphorus sources in the River Avon catchment, southern England: Implications for nutrient management. Science of the Total Environment, 344 (1-3). 67-81. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.02.006

Bowes, M.J.; Leach, D.V.; House, W.A.. 2005 Seasonal nutrient dynamics in a chalk stream: the River Frome, Dorset, UK. Science of the Total Environment, 336 (1-3). 225-241. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.05.026

Bowes, M. J., House, W. A., Hodgkinson, R. A., Leach, D. V. Phosphorus - discharge hysteresis during storm events along a river catchment: The River Swale, UK. Water Research 2005; 39 751-762.

Bowes, M. J., House, W. A. Phosphorus and dissolved silicon dynamics in the River Swale catchment, UK: a mass-balance approach. Hydrol. Process. 2001; 15 (2); 261-280.

Bowes, M. J., House, W. A., Hodgkinson, R. A. Phosphorus dynamics along a river continuum. Science of the Total Environment. 2003; 313 (1-3); 199-212.