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Professor BOWEN, ROBERT E. (Boston)
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences

    Phone: (617) 287-7443
    Email: bob.bowen@umb.edu

Teaching the following courses:
  • Foundations of Public Policy and Environmental Decision Making
  • Scientific Information and the Policy Process
  • Introduction to Oceans and Human Health I

  • **Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**
    Education:
    1981 - Ph.D., University of Southern California

    1975 - B.A., San Francisco State University


    Professional History:
    1984 - present - Faculty Environmental, Coastal and Ocean Sciences (ECOS), University of Massachusetts Boston

    1995 - present - United Nations Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP)

    1995 - present - United Nations Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Health of the Oceans Panel

    1996 - 1999 - Founding Executive Director New Bedford Aquarium Corp.

    1988 - 1991 - U.S. National Academy of Science/Institute of Medicine, Committee on Evaluation of Safety of Fishery Products

    1981 - 1986 - Research Fellow & Visiting Investigator Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution


    Current Research Support:
    “Creating a Virtual Faculty and Student Environment for the Inter - Campus Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology”, University of Massachusetts President’s Office, $12,000.

    Selected Publications:
    Robert E. Bowen and Catherine Crumbley, “Evolving Principals in Coastal Management: From Concept to Action,” in Dennis L Soden and Brent S. Steel, Handbook of Global Environmental Policy and Administration (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1999).

    Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Global Ocean Observing System, “A Strategic Plan for the Assessment and Prediction of the Health of the Ocean: A Module of the Global Ocean Observing System”, (Panel Member and Co - author) IOC/INF 1044, Paris, August 1996 (48 ppg).

    GESAMP, United Nations Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection, “The Contributions of Science to Integrated Coastal Management”, (Working Group Member) GESAMP Reports and Studies No. 61, Rome, 1996 (68 ppg.)

    Jack Archer, Donald Connors, Kenneth Laurence, Sarah Chapin Columbia and Robert E. Bowen, The Public Trust Doctrine and the Management of America’s Coasts (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994).

    National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine, Committee on Evaluation of Safety of Fishery Products (Committee Member), Seafood Safety (Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, 1991)