Senior Lecturer

Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

mrblouin@uvm.edu

Mike Blouin is a senior lecturer in the Rubenstein School at the University of Vermont.  He holds a Master of Science degree from UVM’s Field Naturalist program.  Previously, Mike taught 6th grade earth science in Boston, and worked as a Field Science Educator in Yosemite National Park.  He is interested in structures and best practices of hands-on, field-based science education, and how to integrate social justice into this work. 

Watershed and Lake Education Specialist

Lake Champlain Sea Grant 

caroline.mckelvey@uvm.edu

As the Watershed and Lake Education Specialist, Caroline supports the Watershed Alliance program which has a UVM and SUNY Plattsburgh location, helps support watershed science professional development opportunities for K-12 teachers and supports an undergraduate Watershed Education internship program. She has a BA in Biology/Chemistry from the University of Vermont and a MS in Natural Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

Associate Professor 

Department of Geography and Geosciences

julia.perdrial@uvm.edu

Julia Perdrial's formal training is in geology and mineralogy. For her master's at the University of Heidelberg (Germany, 2004), she investigated how water and minerals change each other. Later, for her PhD at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg (France, 2008), she added life in the form of bacteria to the mix. Her post-doctoral research at the University of Arizona led her to investigate all this at the critical zone scale through the lens of carbon dynamics. Since joining the University of Vermont as assistant professor in 2013, she continues to investigate how these dynamics are impacted by environmental change at local and regional scales.

Assistant Professor

Department of Geography and Geosciences

nicholas.perdrial@uvm.edu

As a low-temperature geochemist and environmental mineralogist Nico uses high-precision geochemical and spectroscopic techniques to understand molecular-scale geochemical processes in bio/geo media and predict contaminant fate in disturbed systems.  He studies all kind of environments from soils and river systems to subglacial Greenland paleoenvironments and highly contaminated radioactive wastes.  Nico received his PhD in Physics, Chemistry and Biology of the Environment in 2007 from University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg (France) and teaches Environmental Geology, Geocomputing and Extraterrestrial systems at the University of Vermont. 

Associate Professor

College of Education and Social Services

rtoolin@uvm.edu

Regina Toolin is a former middle and high school science teacher and now devotes her time to pre-service and in-service STEM teacher education. Her research interests focus on constructivist models of teaching and learning in science education, specifically on models that are grounded in the principles and practices  of inquiry-based, project-based, and place-based teaching and learning. Her teaching interests include STEM curriculum, instruction and assessment as well as equity and diversity issues in education. She is Principal Investigator (PI) of the NSF Robert Noyce Scholarship Program and Director of the VSAC GEAR-UP CREST Program. She is an editorial board member for the Journal of Science Education and Technology and has published her research pertaining to science teaching and learning in the Science Teacher, Science Education, International Journal of Science Education, Journal of Geoscience Education, and the Journal of Science Education and Technology.

Teaching and Learning Coach 

BFA-Fairfax High School

jwelch@fwsu.org

Jensen Welch is the high school Teaching and Learning Coach at BFA-Fairfax.  She was a CREST participant the summer of 2015.  In 2016, and since, she's returned as a member of the instructional team, and is thrilled to help with the CREST program again this summer.  Jensen has a B.A. in Psychology from Smith College, an M.S. in Teaching Mathematics from the University of Vermont, and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Southern New Hampshire University.