Dr. Dorothy Boorse

Associate Professorof Biology

30 Emery Hall

phone 978-969-1464

dorothy.boorse@gordon.edu

RECENT TALKS (available at Gordon on iTunes U):

A Sense of Place - Godly Wonder in Our Father's World

Love of Land at Gordon

Below: Here I am with a student , taking data in Gordon Woods in 2006

Hi

I'm Dorothy Boorse, an associate professor here at Gordon College. I have a range of interests and projects going on and will add them to this page as I have time.

Briefly, I am an aquatic ecologist, particularly interested in small wetlands that dry. Here, such habitats are typically wooded vernal pools. In the midwest, they are often prairie pothole wetlands.

Such weltands are interesting because they are isolated and have a disturbance regime. They often house ecologically imprstant species, and some members of the community

live in metapopulations.

Other people interesed in vernal pools include the Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team (CAVPT).  Much of my work in the field is with students and is presented in student conferences.

I have also done some work in 2004 with the PIE LTER program and MassAudubon's  Robert Buchsbaum and Gordon College student Jennifer Kerry on macroinvertebrates in salt marshes.

I'm also very interested in the connections between environment and ethics.

(more on this asI have time)

I am the AuSAble Institute representative from Gordon.

Below: in the Pacific Northwest- what a tree!!! Unbelievable                     Below: these are spotted salamander eggs from a local vernal pool. They are really interesting parts of vernal pool ecology.

Below: Here I am in Gordon's Coy pond, with several students. This was for a school publicity shot, taken when not much was out so we are feigning interest in the one green leaf in the pond.