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From Khoury et al 2016. Origins of food crops connect countries worldwide. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0792

GEO 201: Introduction to Plant Geography

GEO 201 introduces undergraduate students from across MSU to the basics of biogeography through the lens of food and fiber plants. We learn about how the origins and evolution of different plants have impacted cultures, economies, and ecologies around the world.
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Screenshot of Google Earth Engine work environment.

GEO 837: Applications of Terrestrial Remote Sensing

GEO 837 focuses on letting graduate students (and occasional undergrads) interact with remotely sensed data through a variety of different open(-ish) source platforms like QGIS, R, and Google Earth Engine. GEO 837 is project based and the content of the second half of the course is determined by the students though ranked-choice voting at the course's midpoint.

Older Courses

GEO 324: Remote Sensing of the Environment

GEO 424: Advanced Remote Sensing
From the registrar: "Features and interpretation methods of remotely-sensed imagery, especially black-and-white and color infrared airphotos. Basic features of radar, thermal, and multispectral imagery. Interpretation for agriculture, archaeology, fisheries, forestry, geography, landscape architecture, planning, and wildlife management."
​Taught every fall.
From the registrar: "Interaction of solar radiation with the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. Introductory digital image processing. Earth-resources satellite sensors, data products, and applications. Radar and thermal remote sensing."
Taught every spring

GEO401: Global Plant Geography

From the registrar: "Patterns of global plant distributions. Plant-atmosphere interactions, ecological processes, biogeographical patterns, and predictive models of plant distributions." Incoming students will be required to have some background in ecology.
taught fall 2015

GEO837: Remote Sensing of the Biosphere

From the registrar: "Remote sensing for environmental and global change research. Advanced image interpretation and applications with emphasis on independent research projects"
taught even falls **moving to odd springs!**

ISS 310: People and Environment

​From the registrar: "Contemporary issues related to the interaction of socio-cultural and ecological systems. Global, regional, national and local environmental problems and responses."
taught spring 2017 & 2019