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Assistant Professor

Jenny is an Assistant Professor in the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech with adjunct affiliation in the School of Chemistry & Biochemistry. She earned her PhD in Earth & Environmental Sciences from the University of Michigan and completed postdoc research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Stanford University. Her research spans aquatic and wetland biogeochemistry, organic geochemistry, and photochemistry, and focuses on the process-level understanding needed to reduce uncertainty in ecosystem carbon budgets and how they are changing with disturbance. Her work also addresses how and why certain land management strategies and ecosystem types are stronger nature-based solutions.

jenniferbowen@gatech.edu
Wetland AquaTic oRganic (WATeR) Biogeochemistry Website
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University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Sciences > School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Research Areas
Sustainable Systems
  • Ecosystem and Environmental Health
Additional Research
  • Biogeochemistry of wetland and aquatic ecosystems along the land-ocean continuum
  • Mechanisms and controls on organic matter decomposition
  • Decomposition across redox gradients
  • Impacts of disturbance on the mobilization of critical carbon stores
  • Ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry and metabolomics
  • Nature-based solutions
IRI/Group and Role
Sustainable Systems > Fellow