EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Geography 2004 - University of Nebraska – Lincoln

• M.A. Geography 2000 - University of Nebraska – Lincoln

• B.S. Environmental Studies 1996 - University of Nebraska – Lincoln

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Soil geography, land change and carbon cycling, semi-arid environments, landform classification, soil carbon compartment model application, cultivated farming systems

 

PROFESSIONAL

Bridgewater State College Department of Geography, Bridgewater, Massachusetts

2005-Present Assistant Professor of Geography

2008 - 2010, Chair Elect of the New Technology Committee for NRCS-USDA Northeast Regional Cooperative Soil Survey

2007 - Present, Faculty and Librarian Development, Summer Coordinator BSC Center for Sustainability

 

University of Southern Maine, Gorham, Maine

Adjunct Faculty 2005

 

University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska

Teaching and Research Assistant 2000-2004

 

NRCS-USDA National Soil Survey Center, Lincoln, Nebraska

Cartographic and GIS Technician 2004

 

Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, Nebraska

Adjunct Faculty 2000-2004

 

State of Nebraska Department of Natural Resources, Lincoln, Nebraska

GIS Specialist 1996-2000

AWARDS AND GRANTS

• Student-Faculty research: Courtship and Oviposition Habitat Preferences of Breeding Adult Damselflies: Calopteryx aequabilis and Calopteryx maculate (student: Christopher St. Andre), 2008.

• Moodle online course development grant. Bridgewater State College, Teaching and Technology Center, 2008.

• Travel: The potential impact of agricultural management change on soil restoration of the cereal-growing regions of central Spain, Wessex Institute of Technology, Southampton, UK. Bridgewater State College Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Research. 2008.

• Online course development GEOG122: Physical World. Bridgewater State College, Office of the Provost, 2007.

• Summer Research Grant: Identifying associations among surface soil properties and site characteristics in a semi-arid agricultural region. Bridgewater State College Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Research. 2007.

• Travel: Soil Carbon and Agricultural Land Management in a Typical Semi-Arid Region of Central Spain at the Annual Association of American Geographers Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Bridgewater State College Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Research. 2007.

• Small Grant for soil analyses: Land Use Change and Soil Carbon Storage Potential in Central Spain, Bridgewater State College Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Research. 2006.

• Travel: USDA – Natural Resources Conservation Service, Northeast Regional National Cooperative Soil Survey - New Technology in Soil Survey Committee. Bridgewater State College Arts and Sciences Dean’s office. 2005.

• Travel: Impacts of Set-aside Policy on the Risk of Soil Erosion in Central Spain at the Annual Association of American Geographers Meeting, Chicago, IL. Bridgewater State College Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Research. 2007.

• Processes of Soil Degradation in Mediterranean Agricultural Ecosystems, Research and Technology Grant - Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. 2003-2007.

• Land Use Change and Soil Carbon Storage Potential in Central Spain, data collection summer 2006, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain from Bridgewater State College Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Research.

• Fulbright Fellowship, Madrid, Spain 2002-2003, proposal title: Soil erosion model for the Alberche river watershed using a geographic information system.

• Maude Hammond Fling Graduate Student Fellowship University of Nebraska 2003-2004.

• Leslie Hewes Outstanding Graduate Student Award University of Nebraska 2005.

PUBLICATIONS

• Boellstorff, D. 2008, The potential impact of agricultural management change on soil restoration of the cereal–growing regions of Central Spain, 3rd International Conference on Geo-Environment and Landscape Evolution, Wessex Institute, The New Forest, UK. Conference Proceedings.

• Boellstorff, D. in review, 2008, Soil organic carbon pools influenced by agricultural land management in a semiarid cereal-growing region in Central Spain, Journal of Arid Environments.

• Boellstorff, D. and G. Benito, 2005, Impacts of set-aside policy on the risk of soil erosion in central Spain. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 107(2-3):231-243.

• Gaber, J., S. Gaber, J. Vincent, and D. Boellstorff, 2004, An Analysis of Refugee Resettlement Patterns in the Great Plains, Journal of Great Plains Research, 14(2):165-184.

• Boellstorff, D., J. Conklin, P. Dappen, S. Hatten, P. Lamb, J. Taylor, M. Tooze, M. Warner, J.Wolf, 1997.  Center-Pivot Irrigation Systems in Nebraska (1:1,000,000) University of Nebraska Conservation and Survey Division Map Publication.

• Narumalani, S., K. Dewey, D. Boellstorff, J. Maeder, 2000, Climate Atlas of Nebraska CD-ROM distributed by University of Nebraska Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies, Nebraska Atlas Project.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Boellstorff, D. 2008. The Potential Impact of Agricultural Management Change on Soil Restoration of the Cereal-Growing Regions of Central Spain, 3rd International Conference on Geo-Environment and Landscape Evolution, Wessex Institute, The New Forest, UK.

• Boellstorff, D. and P. Tanes, 2008, Campus Carbon Emissions Inventory: Commuter Contributions and Campus-Land Offsets, Association of American Geographers Meeting, Boston, MA.

• Boellstorff, D. 2008, “The potential impact of agricultural management change on soil restoration of the cereal–growing regions of Central Spain”, Geo-Environment 2008 Wessex Institute of Technology Southampton, U.K..

• Boellstorff, D., 2007, Soil Resotration and Soil Carbon in Central Spain, Poster presentation at the Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching 11^th Annual Celebration, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA.

• Boellstorff, D., 2007, Soil Carbon and Agricultural Land Management in a Typical Semi-Arid Region of Central Spain, Annual Association of American Geographers Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

• Hellström, R., Boellstorff, D., M. Desmarais, P. McDonough, J. Wicks, 2006, Integrating Automatic Weather Station Data into GIS, Massachusetts Office of Geographic and Environmental Information (MassGIS), GIS Day Meetings.

• Boellstorff, D., March 2006, Impacts of set-aside policy on the risk of soil erosion in central Spain, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

• Boellstorff, D., October 2005, Agricultural policy and soil health in central Spain, presentation at New England - St. Lawrence Valley Division of the Association of American Geographers, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire.

• Boellstorff, D. and G. Benito, 2004, Analysis of the 1992 CAP set-aside policy and soil health in Torrijos, Spain, poster presentation at the 8^th National Conference on Geomorphology: Natural and Human Risks in Geomorphology, (VII Reunión Nacional de Geomorfología, Riesgos Naturales y Antrópicos en Geomorfología, Toledo, Spain, September 22-25. 

• Boellstorff, D., 2001, Mead Agricultural Research Development Center land use planning project using SSURGO database, Nebraska GIS Conference, Cornhusker Hotel, Lincoln, Nebraska.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

• Northeast Region National Cooperative Soil Survey Conference, 2008. Narragansett, Rhode Island.

• Northeast Region National Cooperative Soil Survey Conference, 2006. Bordentown, New Jersey.

• Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006. "The Role of Higher Education in Creating a Sustainable World", Tempe Arizona.

TECHNICAL/LANGUAGE

• Introduction to ArcServer, ESRI (summer 2008)

• Multilevel Modeling using MLwiN, Association of American Geographers Meeting, Boston, MA (spring 2008)

• Spanish language: high-level reading, writing and conversation

• GIS/remote sensing: ESRI ArcGIS 9.2, ArcView, Arc/INFO, ENVI 4.x, ERDAS/Imagine 8.x

• Statistical: SPSS, Statgraphics Plus, OpenStat