Leaders in INNOVATIVE Ocean research
SOAR is a Canadian not-for-profit organization
Our focus is oceanographic research and technology needed to better understand our relationship with the Ocean (physical and biological) and to advance sustainable coastal communities. Our home ports are Lunenburg and Freeport, Nova Scotia.
We partner and work with academic institutions, Indigenous organizations, government, and fellow non-profits to gather and share the ocean data coastal communities need to understand — and reduce — our impact on the sea.
Our two ocean research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) stations provide access to a wide range of North Atlantic conditions. The facilities are modest and highly capable providing: shelter, power, high-speed internet, shop space, water access, and vessels crewed by experienced mariners. Combined with deep local knowledge of the Canadian coastline, we support oceanographic research and testing across the Canadian North Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific ocean basins — including easily accessible sites, high energy environments, and remote locations.
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Our CORE ASSETS
SOAR’s marine operations are planned and conducted by water people with decades of experience at sea. Working primarily from (and with) rural coastal communities to deploy, maintain, and recover oceanographic instruments (cabled or autonomous) on the seabed, mid-water column, and sea surface. We have extensive experience working in high energy (strong tide and/or large wave) and remote environments.
SOAR works with (and collaborates across) many communities, leveraging helpful relationships and assets in rural coastal communities, universities, and Indigenous organizations for success at sea and on land. Where success contributes to the development of new ocean technologies, and advances research needed for development of Best Practices and policies, and to advance sustainable ocean practices effectively.
SOAR’s physical assets include a fleet of commercial vessels, two oceanographic RD&D stations (Lunenburg and Freeport, NS), and oceanographic instrumentation available to support the success of your project. We have extensive experience with acoustic systems (multi- and single-beam sonars, ADCPs, hydrophones, acoustic tags, etc.) and follow a work smarter, not harder, approach to marine operations – ensuring vessels and lifting equipment are well suited to the requirements of marine operations.
Our mission is to advance applied research, as needed, to help restore and maintain sustainable coastal communities and marine ecosystems. OUR focus areas ARE clean renewable energy and healthy food supplies. This includes advancing innovations in fishing, tidal energy, and aquaculture.
We envision a future where coastal communities thrive through the responsible use of ocean resources — marine energy and food sources harvested in balance with the ecosystems that sustain them. A future shaped by the accurate AND reliable ocean knowledge needed to understand and manage our USE OF the ocean’s gifts.
SOME OF Our partners and Collaborators
