Welcome to the Pender Harbor Ocean Discovery Station!
OUR VISION
A Pender Harbour community fully equipped with the necessary facilities, tools, resources and expertise to conduct aquatic research and monitoring, learn from the results, and become increasingly empowered to make informed decisions that enable us to maintain and enhance the rich biodiversity of our coastal waters for generations to come.
A confident, sustainable, prosperous Pender Harbour community that inspires young people, particularly through environmental studies, to nurture a vibrant year-round economy that can sustain families, is sensitive to development, and is deeply connected to the natural world through science, culture, and the arts.
OUR MISSION
The PODS mission is to inspire, engage and empower all our visitors, students and academic researchers with the wonders of the coastal waters of our region, and to demonstrate by example that scientifically-driven decision making is essential to finding viable solutions to the most pressing environmental challenges of our time.
MAKE A DONATION
Please consider making a donation to help bring this facility to our community.
PODS is an initiative of The Loon Foundation
The Loon Foundation is a registered charity that was founded in 2002 (as the Ruby Lake Lagoon Nature Reserve Society). Their mission is to ignite connections between people and the natural world, encourage responsible stewardship of natural resources for future generations, and to provide facilities and programs for environmental education, arts and cultural exploration, scientific research, and ecological monitoring.
