Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
& Curator, HSU Vertebrate Museum

Please Note: I am moving to the Department of Biology and Marine Biology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in August of 2008. You will be able to contact me there after that time.

I study the evolution, biogeography and conservation genetics of vertebrates, especially mammals and birds. My recent work has focused on the biogeography of mammals inhabiting the temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest of North America, conservation genetics of flying squirrels, and the origin and evolutionary diversification of Galapagos mockingbirds. I am also interested in computational aspects of using molecular genetic data to date past evolutionary events and to infer historical demographic patterns.

Research in my lab combines fieldwork and molecular genetic studies to investigate ecological and evolutionary questions. Graduate students in my lab are studying a wide range of topics, from the molecular ecology of river otters, to the biogeography of flying squirrels in Mexico and Central America, to the evolution of whale ectoparasites.

Mailing Address (Until July 15, 2008):
Dr. Brian Arbogast
Department of Biological Sciences
Humboldt State University
Arcata, CA 95521 USA

Phone: (707) 826-4180
Fax: (707) 826-3201
E-mail: bsa2@humboldt.edu

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