Zac Adair of The National Center for Outdoor & Adventure Education: Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I First Launched My Business
…By Ben Ari – Authority Magazine Taking the risk to start a company is a feat few are fully equipped for. Any business owner knows that the first few years in business are anything but glamorous. Building a successful business takes time, lessons learned, and most importantly, enormous growth as a business owner. What works…
Emergency Medicine
Maintaining Resilience and Mental Health in the EMS Profession
…The suicide rate among emergency medical service (EMS) professionals rose a shocking 38 percent since 2009, according to a study published in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. But as shocking as that statistic is, it should come as no surprise. As an emergency medical technician (EMT) or paramedic, you typically work a five-day rotation…
Emergency Medicine
Spinal Immobilization or Spinal Motion Restriction: Which is Safest?
…While spine immobilization has long been the standard procedure for treating patients in the backcountry, growing research suggests Spinal Motion Restriction may be the safer option!…
Caleb O’Connor-Genereaux
Caleb O’Connor-Genereaux is a National Center for Outdoor & Educational Education(NCOAE) field instructor. Caleb has a decade of experience working in the outdooreducation industry, connecting with students and facilitating their learning through hishis love of nature and the environment. This native of Ryegate, Vermont, was formerly a teaching coordinator for Tracker’sEarth, which offers summer camps…
Celia Parr
Hailing from Bethesda, Maryland, Celia Parr is a field instructor at The National Center for Outdoor and Adventure Education (NCOAE) in Wilmington, North Carolina. Previously, she was an adventure instructor at Avid4Adventure in Boulder, Colorado., and head counselor at Camp Merrie-Woode — a nonprofit residential camp for girls ages 7 to 17 in the western…
Jessica Cramer
…Jessica’s lifelong quest is to make the world laugh and instill her love of the great outdoors in others….
Conferences
Upcoming and Important Outdoor Industry Conferences
As you’re probably aware, we here at The National Center for Outdoor Adventure & Education (NCOAE) do a lot more than just organize backcountry trips for teens, Outdoor Educator courses for outdoor education industry professionals, GAP Year Programs for college-age students, and wilderness medicine and EMT training for anyone desirous of such certifications. For certain,…
Gabe Isaac
Gabe Issac’s experience and passion for the outdoors and the environment makes her an ideal NCOAE field instructor….
Land Management
State Offices of Outdoor Recreation are Now a Thing
…Stereotyping is never a good thing — primarily because such finger-pointing prejudices are usually unsupported by fact. Take, for example, the 140 million Americans who either dabble in human-powered outdoor recreational activities to some extent or are fully immersed in everything related to the backcountry and Wilderness itself. That’s almost half the nation’s population, if…
Todd Mullenix
Todd Mullenix, NCOAE‘s EMS Program Director, served eight years in the U.S. Army as an Airborne Infantryman/EMT….
Liz Smith
Liz Smith brings plenty of leadership experience to her position as logistics coordinator for NCOAE….
UNCW Offers Wilderness Courses in Alaska, South America
…Students will learn wilderness first aid and environmental science. WILMINGTON — There are some new classrooms at the University of North Carolina Wilmington: the glaciers of Alaska, the mountains of Chile and the rivers of Patagonia. Launching this summer, a partnership between UNCW’s environmental sciences department and the National Center for Outdoor and Adventure Education…
AEE
AEE Announces Spring Regional Conference Lineup
…If you’re interested in advancing your career in outdoor and adventure-based experiential education, you really should attend one of AEE’s 2014 regional conferences. AEE (which stands for Association for Experiential Education) is a professional membership association with roots in adventure education that’s committed to the development, practice, and evaluation of experiential learning in all settings….
EMT Training
21-Day Intensive EMT-Basic Training Now Available in North Carolina
…Starting and completing EMT-Basic training in North Carolina doesn’t have to be a long, drawn-out exercise. It’s now possible — in just 21 days — to obtain the proper training and knowledge to take and then pass the National Registry and the North Carolina state EMT exam. Editor’s Note: This course was previously a 19-day…
Outdoor Education Research
The Early-Camper Gets the Worm, According to Wilderness Study
…It’s common knowledge that hanging around the outdoors, whether that be running bases on the baseball field or trekking in the backcountry — is nothing less than beneficial for you. There’s all that fresh air, exercise, a release from the stresses of everyday life — we could go on infinitum. So now we have a…
Adult Courses
Dates Announced For 2015 North Carolina Women’s Wilderness Initiative
…If you believe being in the backcountry allows for a freedom that can’t be found anywhere else, or that backpacking and river rafting by their very nature sets a subtle but intentional pace that’s good for your soul, then our September 7-13, 2015, Women’s Wilderness Initiative course in North Carolina is tailor-made for you and…
Land Management
Bears Ears Controversy Threatens Outdoor Retailer Show in Utah
…The National Center for Outdoor & Adventure Education’s founders Zac and Celine Adair recently returned from this month’s Outdoor Retailer Winter Market show in Salt Lake City, Utah, where the buzz inside The Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center was centered around moving the show out of Utah and to a state with “a…
Risk Management
2 Words When Natural Disaster Threatens Your Outdoor Campus: Be Prepared
For those of us who work day in and day out at The National Center for Outdoor & Adventure Education’s (NCOAE) headquarters in Wilmington, N.C., tropical storms and hurricanes are part of our environment. Just last year, Hurricane Matthew paid our campus a visit — right in the middle of a three-week campus-based course. But…
Backcountry Prep
Sleeping Out: From Cowboy Camping to Luxury Tents, the Choice is Yours
…Few things on Earth can match the unsurpassed contentment of sleeping outdoors. “If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night,” Bill Watterson once wrote, “I bet they’d live a lot differently.” Amen to that! The stars above, the clouds floating by like sailing vessels, the trees whispering in the breeze. And, of…
Lilly Ade
Lilly Ade brings a raft of experience in outdoor and wilderness education to her position as a field instructor for NCOAE….