Executive Director

Cal Kullman
B. Sc., Educator

Cal has taught science and environmental education in Calgary secondary schools for a quarter century – a career that has made him old but young at heart. His informal teaching career included instructor certification for adult programs in swimming, xc-skiing, whitewater paddling and first-aid. He has paddled and camped along twenty-one rivers in the western provinces and NWT since the age of twelve.

Majoring in zoology, Cal worked two summers as a field research assistant in population studies of dippers in Kananaskis Country and blue grouse on Vancouver Island.

Cal has served as the conference chairman for the Alberta Teachers’ Association Environmental and Outdoor Education Council. Cal’s efforts to make the outdoors a valued place to learn have been recognized with the Prime Minister’s National Award for Teaching Excellence, the Alberta Provincial Teaching in Excellence Award and the Alberta Teacher’s Association Environmental and Outdoor Education Specialist Council Award of Merit.

Cal believes that our current environmental situation is one best handled by well-intentioned people working together in communities and across the generations. The creation and development of the charitable organization “RiverWatch” has been his career calling and life work.