Research interests

Organic geochemistry, novel techniques for fossil fuel analysis, and exobiology.

Publications

A catalytic hydropyrolysis method for the rapid screening of microbial cultures for lipid biomarkers
Gordon D. Love, Stephen A. Bowden, Linda L. Jahnke, Colin E. Snape, Christine N. Campbell, John G. Day and Roger E. Summons (2005) Organic Geochemistry, 36, 63-82.

Biomarker evidence for green and purple sulphur bacteria in a stratified Palaeoproterozoic sea
Jochen J. Brocks, Gordon D. Love, Roger E. Summons, Andrew H. Knoll, Graham A. Logan and Stephen A. Bowden (2005) Nature, 437,866–870.

Compositional differences in biomarker constituents of the hydrocarbon, resin, asphaltene and kerogen fractions: An example from the Jet Rock (Yorkshire, UK)
Stephen A. Bowden, Paul Farrimond, Colin E. Snape and Gordon D. Love (2006)
Organic Geochemistry, 37, 369-383

The liquid-liquid diffusive extraction of hydrocarbons from oil using a microfluidic format
Stephen A. Bowden, Paul B. Monaghan, Rab Wilson, John Parnell and Jonathan. M. Cooper (2006) Lab-On-a-Chip, 2006, (6),740-743

Exploration of Ellsworth Subglacial Lake: concept paper on the development, organisation and execution of an experiment to explore, measure and sample the environment of a West Antarctic subglacial lake.
Siegert et. al., inc Stephen Bowden (2006) Reviews in Environmental Science and Biotechnology, In Press.

Intracrystalline lipids within sulfates from the Haughton Impact Structure - implications for survival of lipids on Mars
Stephen A. Bowden and John Parnell (2006). Icarus In Press.