Walter Poleman specializes in landscape natural history and ecosystem geography and teaches Natural History and Field Ecology (NR 1), Place-based Landscape Analysis (NR 378), and Ecology of Place (NR 85). He is faculty director of GreenHouse Residential Learning Community, and director the PLACE (Place-based Landscape Analysis and Community Engagement) Program. He has taught ecology for the past ten summers at Vermont Law School, and serves as a trustee for the Vermont Land Trust. His teaching awards include the 2003 Kroespsh-Maurice Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2005 Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Award.