Eleanor "Eddy" Duva

Technician/Deckhand
Eleanor.Duva@uvm.edu
 

Ashley Eaton

Ashley Eaton working with fish on a boat

Watershed and Lake Education Coordinator, Lake Champlain Sea Grant
ashley.eaton@uvm.edu | rsenr/profiles/ashley_eaton
802-391-4410
Interests & Expertise: Ashley coordinates K-12 watershed science education programming and professional development opportunities for teachers, and supports undergraduate internship experiences. A large portion of her position is overseeing the UVM Watershed Alliance, which is a UVM Extension and Lake Champlain Sea Grant collaborative K-12 education program focused on increasing watershed awareness and stewardship throughout the Lake Champlain Basin and Vermont. She works on environmental literacy initiatives locally through the VT State-Wide Environmental Education Program and the Champlain Basin Education initiative and nationally through National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the North American Association of Environmental Education.

Stephanie Figary

Postdoctoral Associate
Advisor: Jason Stockwell
stephanie.figary@uvm.edu
 

Marie-Pier Hébert

Marie-Pier Hébert

Postdoctoral Associate (starting January 2022)
Advisor: Jason Stockwell
Research focus: Marie-Pier is broadly interested in the ecology of freshwater ecosystems and food webs, and how their functioning may be disrupted by global change. She tries to use a variety of approaches to address research questions, combining data syntheses, field-based experiments, and observational surveys. As part of her postdoctoral research in the Stockwell lab, she will pursue interests in winter limnology and investigate the food sources and processes supporting lake food webs under ice.

Justin Lesser

Justin Lesser holding a big fish

Postdoctoral Associate
Advisors: Jason Stockwell and Ellen Marsden
justin.lesser@uvm.edu
Research focus: Justin is broadly interested in dynamics and energy flow in food webs. For his postdoctoral research, he is developing a food web model of Lake Champlain to better understand the impact different ecological events have had on the lake’s food web as well as predict what we might expect to see in the future.

Caroline McKelvey

Caroline McKelvey

Watershed and Lake Education Specialist, Lake Champlain Sea Grant
caroline.mckelvey@uvm.edu | rsenr/profiles/caroline-mckelvey
802-391-4410
Interests & Expertise: Caroline has expertise in place-based education and natural resources. She is the lead for a collaborative UVM Extension program 4-H20 and manages the Burlington-based Watershed Alliance K-12 school programming.

Bianca Possamai

Bianca Possamai

Postdoctoral Associate
Advisor: Jason Stockwell and Ellen Marsden
bianca.possamai@uvm.edu
Research focus: Bianca's research focuses on understanding how environmental factors and climate change affect biodiversity and trophic interactions in aquatic systems.

Taylor Resnick

Taylor Resnick standing on the R/V Marcelle Melosira

Captain, Research Vessel Marcelle Melosira
taylor.resnick@uvm.edu | profile
 

Rose Stuart

Postdoctoral Associate
Advisor: Jason Stockwell and Ellen Marsden
rose.stuart@uvm.edu
 

Andrea Stumpf