Peter Hope Instructor of Biology

Bio

B.A. Middlebury College
M.S. University of Vermont

Areas of Expertise:

Forest composition, dynamics and succession, fern and angiosperm systematics

Courses I Teach:

• Communications in the Biological Sciences
• Ecosystem Ecology
• Introduction to Ecology and Evolution
• Effects of Climate Change
• Tropical Ecology

Interview

My favorite class to teach is Ecosystem Ecology, which I teach in the fall. It is a field course with labs spent outside visiting and studying many of Vermont’s interesting ecosystems. The course includes some of my favorite subjects including geology, ecology, and botany. I finds it very gratifying to introduce students to these ecosystems. I appreciates the stories my students tell me when they later took their friends or parents to one of the sites that they visited in class.

Life off Campus: 

Outside Saint Michael’s, I enjoy nature photography, hiking, canoeing, violin, and playing the guitar.

Recent News

Peter Hope, biology faculty emeritus, led another trip to Costa Rica with a group of Saint Michael’s students over the winter break.
(posted February 2023)