June 11, 2013 Meeting Information

John Etches, B.Sc.Geo.
Senior Marketing Specialist,
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources

Bio
An environmental educator with 25 years experience managing environmental education programs, and developing environmental programs for client groups. Most notably at the former Leslie Frost Centre at Dorset.
He also delivered the Interpretive Techniques course with the Ecotourism/Adventure Tourism program at Sir Sandford Fleming College in Haliburton. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Kawartha Outdoor Education Centre.
John recently completed two contracts with the United Nations Development Program to develop the educational products for a new World Heritage Site in Egypt.
He has spent a few years in mineral exploration, bedrock mapping, claims in the high Arctic and in central New Brunswick, with exceptional knowledge and experience of the rocks and minerals of Ontario.
An avid geo-photographer and artist.

Topic
John will cover a wide range of geological information as it relates to the biological an climatic conditions that has and will continue to influenced by the earths geological structure along with other insightful stories.