Outdoor Skills and Leadership
Faculty

Kevin Krein , Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of Outdoor Studies

Phone: 796-6362

Email: kevin.krein@uas.alaska.edu

Juneau Campus: Soboleff Bldg: 214

In addition to working as academic director of Outdoor Studies, Kevin also teaches philosophy at UAS. Kevin's primary philosophical work is in the areas of philosophy of nature and the environment and philosophy of mind. His outdoor interests are centered around alpine skiing and ski mountaineering. Kevin brings over 10 years of experience of backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering in the Chugach, Alaska, and Coast ranges of Alaska. His accomplishments include a ski descent of Denali from summit to base camp.

Forest J Wagner , Assistant Professor of Outdoor Studies

Phone: 796-6361

Email: fjwagner@uas.alaska.edu

Juneau Campus: Hendrickson Bldg: 203

Forest has been coordinating and teaching in the outdoor studies program since 2006.  Forest works in the off season as a mountain guide, and is also a graduate student in northern studies at UAF.  He is most interested in human narrative, northern identity, and sense of place.

Bill Glude , ODS Avalanche Education

Phone: 796-6361

Email: wgglude@uas.alaska.edu

Juneau Campus: Hendrickson Bldg

Southeast Alaska Avalanche Center director Bill Glude has been studying snow seriously for over 30 years. His avalanche study began with practical, academic, and field studies under avalanche pioneer Ed LaChapelle at the University of Washington in the late sixties. He has been teaching avalanche courses since 1978, including fulltime teaching for the Alaska Avalanche School and the Alaska Mountain Safety Center through the 1980s. With Southeast Alaska Avalanche Center, he has taught over 4,000 students throughout Southeast Alaska and beyond since 1995. He has initiated a number of research projects with his students. He keeps a sharp edge on his skills with consulting projects involving avalanche forecasting, training, and hazard evaluation.

Jacek Maselko , ODS Climbing Instructor

Phone: 796-6361

Email: jmmaselko@uas.alaska.edu

Juneau Campus: Hendrickson Bldg

Jacek brings years of experience climbing rock, ice, and high alpine routes to the Outdoor Studies program. He has also guided on many of the worlds tallest mountains, including Everest, Ama Dablam, Pumori, Gasherbrum I and II, and Logan. In the Juneau area he has explored many new routes and accomplished a number of first ascents on both rock and waterfall ice, including several on the Mendenhall Towers.

Kevin Maier , Assistant Professor of English

Phone: 796-6021

Email: kevin.maier@uas.alaska.edu

Jodee Goldsberry , ODS Kayak/ Backcountry Cooking Instructor

Phone: 796-6361

Email: jjgoldsberry@uas.alaska.edu

Juneau Campus: Hendrickson Bldg

Jodee grew up as an outfitter in the Canadian Rockies where she catered and guided guests on two week long horse back trips into the wilderness of Jasper National Park where the cooking was done on an open fire and the camp of tents broken down and moved almost every day.

Over the past decade, whitewater kayak instruction, instructor training and guiding has been Jodee's focus. She competed in Whitewater Slalom and Freestyle competitions around the world. Jodee was on the Canadian Whitewater Slalom team in 1996 and Freestyle team in 1999.