NSF Biographical Sketch - Bolstad, Paul
 

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Name: Bolstad, Paul
Telephone : 612.625.9711; Fax: 612.625.5212
Email: pbolstad@umn.edu
Organization:
Department of Forest Resources
University of Minnesota
St Paul, Minnesota 55108

http://www.forestry.umn.edu/people/facstaff/bolstad/index.html

Position at Coweeta LTER: Principal Investigator
Specialty: Forest Processes
Habitat: Terrestrial Ecosystem
Organism: Deciduous Forest Tree Species
Core Area(s): Primary Production (1), Modeling/Synthesis (7)

Education:
B.S., U. C. Berkley, Forestry, 1980
M.S., North Carolina State University Raleigh, Forestry, 1985
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Madison, Environmental Monitoring, 1990

Appointments:
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, 1996-present
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, 1995-1996
Assistant Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990-1995

Publications (Five as examples of research foci):
Bolstad, P.V., and T. Gragson, 2007, Early post-contact Cherokee land use in the southern Appalachians, In Press, Journal of Archeological Science, in press.

Bolstad, P.V., J.M. Vose, and S.G. McNulty, 2001. Forest Productivity, Leaf Area, and Terrain in Southern Appalachian Deciduous Forests, Forest Science, 47:419-427.

Mitchell, K.A., P.V. Bolstad, and J.M. Vose, 1999. Interspecific and environmental variation in foliar dark respiration among eighteen southeastern deciduous tree species, Tree Physiology, 19:861-870.

Wear, D.N., and P.V. Bolstad, 1998. Land use changes in southern Appalachian landscapes: spatial analyses and forecast evaluation, Ecosystems 1:575-594.

Bolstad, P.V., and W.T. Swank, 1997. Cumulative impacts of landuse on water quality in a southern Appalachian watershed. Water Resources Research 33:519-533.

Synergistic Activities:

1.Subject Matter Editor, Ecosystems, 2004–present

2.NASA Long-Term Regional Data Archive Steering Group 2005-present

3. Peer Reviewer: NASA, NSF, DOE, NRI competitive grants

4.Journal Reviewer: Ecosystems, Ecology, Water Resources Research, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Tree Physiology, Soil Science Society of America Journal

5.Dr. Bolstad is conducting research on developing methods to extract enhanced land use data from advanced sensors. This research is funded by NASA, and involves the integration of high spatial and temporal resolution sensors, with terrain and other spatial data. Study sites are located in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the southern Appalachians, and the results of this work will be used for current and retrospective land use mapping in the proposed research of the Coweeta LTER.