Meet our tour guides!

ADAM FULLER 

A teacher and STEM facilitator, Adam has presented telescope viewing tours and planetarium show experiences across Ontario and parts of Quebec.

With a diverse background in music and music education, Adam brings a wealth of experience to our team as our newest presenter.

Starting in the Fall of 2024, Adam also became our lead presenter, having delivered telescope and planetarium experiences to a variety of schools, libraries, and corporate clients such as Club Med.

OLIVIA LONGOolivia_longo_ontario_planetarium

Olivia is an accomplished outdoor stargazing and planetarium presenter with a universe of experience hosting thousands of people under the stars.

An accomplished world traveller, Olivia has trekked to numerous iconic stargazing destinations, including the wilderness of Chile.

Olivia holds an honours degree in Cognitive Science from Carleton University (which she sometimes puts to use when asked questions about our perception of the night sky and the universe around us.)

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BLAKE PATENAUDE 

Blake Patenaude graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 2014 and flew directly to the Alberta Rocky Mountains. He spent the next three years living in one of the most beautiful Dark Sky Preserves in the world, Jasper National Park. This is where he spent many nights stargazing and pursuing his interest in our Universe, and expanding his knowledge from the Astronomy courses he took in University through direct observation of the night sky.

Blake is well travelled and has had the opportunity to stargaze atop volcanoes and on rural beaches in Indonesia, and spent a week trekking in Patagonia where he witnessed the incredibly bright stars of an area with zero light pollution.

Blake is an engaging and entertaining presenter who is certain to edu-tain all visitors to the Ontario Planetarium!

 

peter_mcmahon_peterborough_planetariumPETER MCMAHON
peter@ontarioplanetarium.com

Peter is an award-winning science journalist who has presented across Canada and the U.S. and worked for CTV News , Discovery Channel, and written for MSN.ca, The Toronto Star, CAA online, and Frommer’s Travel.

He’s also written print science features for such magazines as Scientific American, Canadian Geographic, Reader’s Digest, Today’s Parent, Air Canada’s in-flight magazine enRoute, OWL Magazine, the U.S. magazine Sky & Telescope, and Sky News: The Canadian Magazine of Astronomy and Stargazing where he writes the “Wilderness Astronomer” column in each issue and serves as a contributing editor.

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In February of 2010, he covered health science stories at the Vancouver Winter Games for CTVolympics.ca

peter_mcmahon_presentation_peterborough_planetariumPeter has spoken on science communication and astronomy at countless universities, science centres, conferences, and national parks, as well as delivering science communication workshops at Science North/Laurentian University’s Science Communication program and The Banff Centre.

Peter’s second installment in the Machines of the Future science experiment book series – Space Tourism (Kids Can Press, 2011) was an Official Selection for the prestigious U.S. Junior Library Guild. His current book, the critically-acclaimed best-selling Space Adventurer’s Guide (Kids Can Press, 2018) won the 2019 Lane Anderson Prize for Science Writing. He and team have also been the recipient of numerous TripAdvisor Awards of Excellence.

In addition to running The Ontario Planetarium, Peter is also one of the founding directors of The Jasper Planetarium in the Alberta Rockies after co-founding Jasper as the world’s largest dark sky preserve, and currently serves as manager of Kitt Peak National Observatory Visitor Center near Tucson, Arizona.

 

Interested in booking? Call or email:
bookings@ontarioplanetarium.com / 905.885.9471

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