Pat’s engagement with the outdoors has been a lifelong commitment. He grew up in England, Indonesia, California and Denmark. Roaming natural spaces with his family or on his own. Every summer he would return to Nova Scotia as a camper at Big Cove YMCA Camp. He graduated with a BA and HBOR from Lakehead University and then worked for the Canadian Outward Bound Wilderness School in Northern Ontario. From there Pat completed a PhD at Lincoln University (New Zealand) with a focus on Antarctica. Once drawn back to Canada he was involved in a number of extended canoe expeditions along rivers across the Canadian Arctic and Alaska. Pat is now a Professor of Physical and Health Education at Nipissing University, and as a researcher and post-secondary educator his work takes him to Labrador, Yukon, Iceland, Norway, Australia, and many places in between. He has also returned to the Antarctic as an educator for Students on Ice. These days, Pat’s outdoor fun is highlighted by local family adventures (mom, dad and 2 boys); bike rides of city trails, shorter ski runs, a day-trip canoeing, or even just an afternoon on the sidelines of a soccer field.