Our Staff

Chris Melmoth: Team Leader and Professor in the Outdoor Adventure & Outdoor Adventure Naturalist Program

Chris Melmoth has been the lead player in developing and organizing the Rainforest & Tropical Science course for the past seventeen years and liaising with our partners in Costa Rica. His educational background and experience in the adventure industry give him excellent credentials to teach several courses across the various outdoor training programs at the Pembroke Campus.

Chris’s students benefit from 35+ years of first-hand experience in guiding, instruction, administration, and management with one of Canada’s leading outdoor adventure companies and Algonquin College. He also brings practical approaches and a wealth of national and international business knowledge, essential in today’s tourism sector.

His work has brought him to numerous adventure destinations across Canada and the U.S.A., including the Yukon, Hawaii and Alaska. He has also spent time in Australia, New Zealand, and both western and eastern Europe. In recent years, Chris has been involved in Algonquin-related ecotourism projects in Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, and Iceland. He has also traveled to China and Tanzania where he was invited as a consultant on experiential learning and adventure tourism programs.

Cameron Dubé: Professor and Skills Instructor in the Outdoor Adventure & Outdoor Adventure Naturalist Programs

Cameron Dubé is a graduate of Algonquin College’s Outdoor Adventure program in Pembroke and holds a degree in Tourism Management from Thompson Rivers University, in Kamloops, British Columbia.

Cameron teaches both field and theory courses such as mountain biking, sea kayaking, nordic skiing, telemark skiing, computers and ecotourism in both the Outdoor Adventure and Outdoor Adventure Naturalist programs. For the past 20 years, he has traveled and worked as a sea kayak guide, raft guide, mountain bike instructor/competitor and ski instructor.

He is one of the instructors on Algonquin College’s ecotourism field trip to Costa Rica (Rain Forest and Tropical Science) and has enjoyed several sea kayaking, ski touring and mountain biking expeditions around the world. Among his favourite experiences is sea kayaking along BC’s coast and trekking Mt. Kilimanjaro, where he helped guide a group of Ottawa high school students.