David E. Wilkins 
Associate Professor
Department of Geosciences
Coordinator for Teacher Education and Academic
Advising
College of Arts and Sciences
Boise State University
1910 University Drive
Boise, ID 83725-1535
208.426.2390
IAG Geomorphlist
(geomorph-l) Homepage
Degree
Program Assignments
BS -
Earth Science Education Program Coordinator
MS -
Earth Science Graduate Program Coordinator
Research Interests
Desert
Geomorphology, Late Quaternary climate change, palaeolakes, dune activity,
dendrochronology and dendrogeomorphology, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) use
in geomorphic investigations, viticultural geography.
Current projects:
Dendrogeomorphic
study of climate change and dune activity in the Coral Pink Sand Dunes,
Kane County, Utah (see summary)
Climate change,
fire history, and hazards along the Boise Front.
Wine-grape growing
environments in the Western Snake River Plain (see Gillerman, et al., 2006,
below).
Publications
Wilkins, D.E. and Ford,
R.L., 2007. Nearest neighbor methods applied to dune field organization:
The Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Kane County, Utah, USA. Geomorphology v. 83,
pp. 48-57.
Gillerman, V.S.,
Wilkins, D., Shellie, K., and Bitner, R. (2006). Terroir of the
Western Snake River Plain, Idaho, USA. Geoscience Canada, v. 33, no. 1, pp.
37-48.
Recent Presentations (in .pdf).
Open in Acrobat by clicking on the links,
or download by right-clicking and selecting "Save Link
Target As" (Netscape) or "Save Target As" (IE).
AGU Mini
Poster (2002) (some GPR image loss in conversion to pdf)
AAG Mini Poster
(2003)
INQUA Mini poster
(2003)
GSA - Seattle
(2003) - on GPR use in shoreline sequencing in the Alvord Desert basin,
Oregon.
GSA -
Denver (2004) - I was unable to present this poster at Denver because poor
weather in Boise caused my flight to be cancelled.
GSA -
Salt Lake City (2005) - Little Ice Age behavior of the Coral Pink Sand
Dunes
AGU 2005 Dendroclimatology
in Central Idaho (collaboration with NADEF participants)
AGU 2006 GPR investigations in the
Coral Pink Sand Dunes
AAG 2007 (in
collaboration with colleagues at Weber State and Univ. of Utah)
Friends of of the Historical Museum 2007 guest lecture on Lake Bonneville and
the Bonneville Flood
Teaching
Syllabi from
previous courses. Other course material is delivered via Blackboard.
Boise State Carbon Footprint materials
Department of Geosciences
Boise
State University
Math and Geosciences
Building
1 910 University Dr
Boise, Idaho
83725-1535
ftp link:ftp://earth.boisestate.edu/dwilkins
