Kevin Krein
Academic Director, Outdoor Studies
Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Courses Taught Include
ODS 148: Backcountry Skiing and Snowboarding
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 Wagner
Program Director, Outdoor Studies

Courses Taught Include
Outdoor Leadership Sequence (ODS 243, 244, & 245)                 Backcountry Navigation & Travel (ODS 205)                                             Winter Backpacking (ODS 115) 

An ODS and UAS graduate, Forest is a lifelong Alaskan with experience in a number of different outdoor mediums. He has expeditioned in most of the mountain ranges of Alaska, paddled many Alaskan rivers, and continues to find happiness in the outdoors.

Jacek Maselko
Climbing Instructor

Courses Taught Include
Rock Climbing (ODS 116)             Rock Climbing Level II (ODS 216)   Ice Climbing (ODS 117)                     Ice Climbing Level II (ODS 293)  Glacier Travel/ Crevasse Rescue (ODS 221)                                Mountaineering  (ODS 222)

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.  

Tim Farr
Kayaking Instructor

Courses Taught Include
 Expedition Sea Kayaking (ODS 133)

Bill Glude
Avalanche Education

Courses Taught Include
Avalanche Evaluation & Theory Level I (ODS 118)
Avalanche Evaluation & Theory Level II (ODS 218)

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.

Bruce Bowler
Gun Safety Instructor

Courses Taught Include
Basic Firearms Education (PE 193)

Bruce is a certified Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun, Sporting Clays and Black Powder instructor; a Law Enforcement Pistol, Shotgun and Patrol Carbine Instructor; and an Alaska Hunter Education Course Instructor. He is a member of the statewide board of directors for the Alaska 4-H Junior Shooting Sports Program (UAF Cooperative Extension Service), and is the Training Coordinator and Board member of the Alaska Peace Officers Association. Bruce is also the Team Manager of "SEADOGS" Search and Rescue Team in Juneau.

Ron Hulstein
Fishing Instructor

Fly Fishing, Tying&Casting Level I (ODS 119)                                         Fly Fishing, Tying&Casting Level II (ODS 219)

As a break from teaching accounting and finance courses in the UAS Department of Business, Ron enjoys teaching his fishing sequence for the ODS program. He has fly fished across North America. As a professional fly tyer, he has presented seminars/classes at UAS and recently in Angoon and Yakutat. Ron's favorite time is spent fly fishing with his students.

Colin Aikman
Swift Water Instructor

Courses Taught Include
Swift Water Rescue ( ODS 112)

Colin teaches the Swift Water course for the university, a three day intensive class that offers an SRT-1 certification at its conclusion.  Making his home in Skagway, Colin is a professional Rescue Instructor, offering a wide variety of classes across Alaska.  

Jodee Goldsberry
Kayak/ Backcountry Cooking Instructor

Courses Taught Include
Intro to Kayaking (PE 105)
Backpacking SEAlaska (ODS 114)

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.