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Director Paula Williams
J.D., Ph.D.
Office: Sustainability
Phone: 907-786-1515
Email: pwilliams@uaa.alaska.edu
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Biography
On January 5, 2009 I was privileged to become the first Sustainability Director at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. I completed my Interdisciplinary Ph.D. through the University of Alaska Fairbanks and graduated in May of 2009. My academic work has focused on the interaction between humans and their environment, specifically on the influences on human perception of change, and on our willingness to adapt. This continues to be my passion, as well as finding ways to motivate people to increase adaptive capacity.
My dissertation is titled “The Role of Social Paradigm in Human Perception and Response to Environmental Change.” My research led naturally to working as Sustainability Director here at UAA because it examines the interactions between the biophysical environment and human social systems, which is also the focus of sustainability.
Although the degree was issued by Fairbanks, I completed my course work and research here at UAA. The last year and a half of work on my dissertation was supported by a fellowship provided by the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) through the National Science Foundation. Prior to receiving the fellowship, I worked as a Research Associate for UAA’s Resilience and Adaptive Management (RAM) Group for about two years. Working for the RAM Group allowed me to participate in research investigating the perceptions that people living in small communities in the Norton Sound area have of their subsistence resources and water. Additionally, I focused on mining research while working with the RAM Group.
In a prior life, I was an attorney in Anchorage for about 20 years. During my last eight years as an attorney I worked for state and municipal agencies that enforce the laws prohibiting discrimination.
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Vitor R. de Carli
Recycle Crew Director
Office: Sustainability
Phone: 907-441-6001
Email: uaa_recycle@uaa.alaska.edu
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Biography
Greetings. My name is Vitor de Carli. I was born in Formosa, a small city of 30,000 people in midwest Brazil, but raised both in Goiania (Midwest) and Curitiba (South). I worked for 4 years in an auto shop and almost 3 years in the financial market in Brazil. While I was working on my thesis for my business degree. In 2010, I decided to change my life and do something else than being a greedy dude. It was a dramatic change. Since then, I have been devoting my time and skills to social causes and environmentalism with great passion. In 2011 I hitchhiked twice across the U.S., from Los Angeles to D.C., and New York to Seattle back, contacting notable environmentalists and organizations and trying to better understand the problems of our world. That journey brought me to Alaska, and there is a whole lot more that I would love to share if you want.
At UAA I'm a major in Environmental Studies, a Senator on the Student Government, and on May 5th, 2012, I had the privilege to become the Recycling Program Director for the Office of Sustainability.
Recycling in a concept far beyond the simple fact of throwing your bottle in the right bin. Recycling means energy savings, it means wise use of resources, it means management of cycles, but also it is a way to mimic and learn with 4.6 billion years of Planet Earth's research and development. Here we work to copy what nature does best, RECYCLE.
Under our availability of resources the Recycling Crew is always ready to embrace and support your Recycling efforts. Feel free to contact us with requests, suggestions and critiques.
Move along! =)
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Alex Stroebele
Crew Member
Office: Sustainability
Phone: 907-786-4634
Email: uaa_recycle@uaa.alaska.edu
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Biography
Hi I'm Alex, I was born here in Anchorage at the Providence Hospital, located right next to UAA. I started volunteering with the recycling team and soon after was offered a position on the crew. I'm a sophomore and plan on double majoring in Agriculture and Psychology.
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Korlyn Bolster
Education Outreach Coordinator / Crew Member
Office: Sustainability
Phone: 907-786-4634
Email: uaa_recycle@uaa.alaska.edu
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Biography
Korlyn Bolster is the Education Outreach Coordinator for the Office Of Sustainability, and a part time student and Varsity volleyball coach at a local club. She enjoys most sports and outdoor activities that are fully accessible while living in the north, and has found her appreciation for finding ways to improve sustainability driven because of it. Working with other students and faculty in the Sustainability Department, and making campus a green and clean place to be has been an honor for her. And now on course for a B.S. in Environmental Studies at UAF, sharing resources and opportunities from both UAA and UAF in the state, has been an adventure and a gift in her education. Most importantly she feels a healthy environment improves quality of life, and is something we all deserve to live with.
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Theresa Cho
Researcher Technician
Office: Sustainability
Phone: 907-786-4907
Email: tdcho@alaska.edu
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Biography
Hello to all! I am a full-time student at UAA. I joined the Office of Sustainability in the Summer of 2011. Every day I continue to learn more and more about the many small and non-invasive changes we can make in our lives to reduce, reuse, and conserve. I strongly believe in protecting the environment and that small lifestyle changes have the potential to become major differences.
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