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Professor Geoffrey Hope was a Research Fellow at The Australian National University. He was a paleaoecologist and biogeographer with a particular interest in human and climatic impacts on vegetation, including the conservation of peatlands of the Australian mountain regions.
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Geoffrey Hope accepted to drive me and my students from TELOPEA PARK SCHOOL for a trip in the peatland to collect samples we studied after with John Rogers. It was a fantastic expedition for students. I have just read this today, and I would like to say a huge thank you for his generosity and kindness.
In my personal study of the biogeography of Tasmania I was just reading an article in the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences (2019) and I noted that it was co-authored by Geoff Hope who was one of my lecturers at the ANU Geography Department way back in the early 1980s. I have just discovered about his passing. I will always remember the awesome field trips Geoff ran in the unit Earth Sciences A01. One that stands out was a trip to Lake Mungo and the Willandra Lake region with Geoff playing his tin whistle to entertain his undergraduate students. Although I never pursued a career in the field of Earth Sciences, the fact that I still hold an interest in the subject speaks volumes about the inspiration that Geoff inspired in this fascinating subject.
A lateral thinker who rarely focussed on the ordinary. And a person of great humanity and kindness.
Geoff opened my eyes to deep time ecology and the insights into contemporary environmental problems to be gained from understanding the historic biogeography of Australia’s vegetation. He also taught me much about academic rigour as well as the necessity, benefits and joys of marrying field work with laboratory based analyses. I owe much of my understanding of and interest in environmental biogeography to his generosity as a teacher and mentor. I greatly value our research and publication collaborations.