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Position at Coweeta LTER:  Principle 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 (5 most significant)
Wear, D.N. & P. Bolstad, 1998. Land-use changes in southern Appalachian landscapes: spatial analysis and forecast evaluation.  Ecosystems 1:575-594.

Bolstad, P.V., W.T. Swank and J.Vose, 1998. Predicting southern Appalachian overstory vegetation with digital terrain data.  Landscape Ecology 13:271-283.

Harding, J.S., E.F. Benfield, P.V. Bolstad, G.S. Helfman, and E.B.D. Jones III, 1998. Stream biodiversity: the ghost of land use past. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 95:14843-14847.

E.B.D. Jones III, G.S. Helfman, J.O. Harper, and P.V. Bolstad, 1999. Effects of riparian forest removal on fish assemblages in southern Appalachian streams. Conservation Biology 13:1454-1465.

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:
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.