Mark Long

District School Board Ontario Northeast

Mark has a great deal of academic training and leadership experience in many areas of adventure recreation. He has studied adventure leadership, adventure therapy, and experiential education at Lakehead University and the University of New Brunswick. He has nearly twenty years experience teaching wilderness leadership, white-water canoeing, kayaking, rafting, water & vertical rescue, wilderness medicine, and sea kayak rescue & navigation throughout Central and Eastern Canada. His teaching experience includes working for Lakehead University, University of New Brunswick, the School of Wilderness Arts & Technology, and for the New Brunswick Provincial Government. He is a leading moving-water rescue instructor with Rescue 3 International, the largest rescue instructional organization in the world. Mark is a moving-water instructor trainer for the Ontario Recreational Canoeing Association, and has logged thousands of miles of canoeing, kayaking, and rafting experience throughout much of Canada and the United States. Mark currently operates Momentum Outdoors, an outdoor adventure company, and teaches an outdoor adventure leadership program at Iroquois Falls Secondary School. A passion for adventure and wilderness provides his motivation for working with others who have interests in the long-term health of our wilderness areas.