Dear undergraduates,

Biogeography is an area of geography (and biology!) that focuses on the changing distributions of plant and animal species (and of other organisms) on Earth, and on the biological, physical, and cultural processes that have brought about these distribution patterns.   I developed and taught for many years our Department's 400-level course on Biogeography, but for the past few years my colleague Dr. Robert Washington-Allen has been in charge.  Starting this Spring, I am back in the saddle, and very excited to welcome you to the class!  Geography 435 will meet M, W, F from 12:20-1:10 in our Advanced Physical Geography teaching lab (401 Burchfiel).  The course doesn't have a required lab, but we'll try to do a bit of outdoor biogeography, at least on campus, and will sneak some hands-on activities into the course as we can.  There's a max capacity of 24, so everyone has table space and we can spread out maps and samples and more (no tablet arm chairs for us!).  

Yours sincerely,

Sally Horn

Here I am appreciating the biogeography of mangroves in the Florida Keys.

How many species do you see?

Email me if you have any questions.  We will use the same textbook by geographer Glen MacDonald that Robert Washington Allen's students used in Fall term, only $20 or so used online!