Nate Bower

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Nathan Bower
Professor of Chemistry
Analytical & Environmental Chemistry

The Colorado College
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
14 East Cache La Poudre
Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Office: Barnes Science Center 330
Tel: (719) 389-6432
Fax: (719) 389-6182
E-mail: nbower@coloradocollege.edu

Education: B.A., College of Wooster (1973); Ph.D., Oregon State University (1977)

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	Research Summary: Nate Bower has on-going research interests in the application of analytical chemistry to questions in archaeology, art and material culture conservation, ecology, the fate and transport of chemicals in the environment, forensic science, and numismatics. He usually works in collaboration with students and faculty from other disciplines, crossing the traditional boundaries of chemistry. Recent work has focused primarily on applications involving isotopes or chemical ecology.

Selected Recent Publications (* Denotes Undergraduate Co-Author):
S. Kelso, N. W. Bower, K. E. Heckmann,* P. M. Beardsley,* and D. G. Greve,* “Geobotany of the Niobrara Chalk Barrens in Colorado: A Study of Edaphic Endemism and Rarity,” Western North American Naturalist, 63(3), 299-313 (2003).

N. W. Bower, S. R. Getty, C. P. Smith,* Z. R. Simpson,* and J. M. Hoffman, “Lead isotope analysis of intra-skeletal variation in a 19th century mental asylum cemetery: Diagenesis versus migration,” International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 15(5), 360-370 (2005).

M. A. Snyder and N. W. Bower, “Resistance to Bark Beetle Attack in Caribbean Pine: Potential Role of 4-Allylanisole,” Biotropica, 37(4), 702-705 (2005).

H. Drossman, J. Meyer,* N. Bower, “Radioimmunoassay of Morphine in Urine from Ingestion of Poppy Seeds: A Research-Based Laboratory,” The Chemical Educator, 11(3), 190-195 (2006).

N. W. Bower, M. F. Oxenham, Y. Yasutomo,* and Ha Van Tan, “Reconstruction of Da But Period Diets in Northern Vietnam Using Stable Isotope Analysis: Preliminary Findings,” In Press: Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, 26, (2006)