Paul Bolstad

Paul Bolstad is a Professor at the University of Minnesota, and has written seven editions of a widely-used GIS textbook, described at gisfundamentals.org. He has over 35 years teaching, researching, and applying GIS. He has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed research journals, with his work cited more than 15,000 times. His books have been used at over 450 colleges and universities, by more than 200,000 students, on four continents. He has directly taught more than 5,000 students in his university-level GIS courses. He wrote the first edition of GIS Fundamentals more than 20 years ago, motivated by the too-high price and incomplete coverage of GIS books then on the market. He discovered that a self-published, gray-scale paperback would be one-third the cost of a typical textbook, and has been gratified by the widespread adoption of his books. Additional book resources can be found at www.paulbolstad.net/gisbook.html