Owl Incubator Inc. was founded by Pamela Dykstra. Pamela is a research ecologist and entrepreneur based on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. She has spent decades immersed in, studying and working to improve our understanding of natural systems. This has given her a unique lens.

Patterns in nature reveal resilience, efficiency; balance amidst uncertainty - something humans strive for in their individual and collective lives. Pamela observed ‘solution blueprints’ in nature. Strategies to address the kinds of challenges people experience daily; like competition, scarcity, and stress. As she leveraged some of nature’s solution blueprints to address challenges at work and in life, the realization came.

There is untold, untapped potential to solve human challenges with solutions designed by nature. Beyond material based biomimicry and extractive industries. Nature illustrates an intelligence that can be used by humans to think, act and design solutions to our most pressing challenges.

Pamela is deeply passionate about the profound reimagining of how humans build, create and adapt, with design by nature.

Pamela studied resilience theory and holds a Masters of Resource and Environmental Management (MRM) from Simon Fraser University (2009). She has been a designated environmental professional in British Columbia for over 20 years (P.Ag.).

Formerly (2016-2025), Pamela built cross-disciplinary teams and funding networks, leveraged expertise, and led innovative, ecological research using machine learning and adapting to climate change, as a Research Leader for the British Columbia government.

Prior to 2016, Pamela worked primarily as a field ecologist in research, with over 1500 days of remote field work across all conditions throughout British Columbia. She also Co-Founded and operated a consultancy for over a decade.

Pamela has been an Independent Power Producer in British Columbia since 2007 and has been consulting for the renewable energy industry since 2020.

Pamela is an avid outdoorswoman; skiing, hiking, rock climbing, mountaineering, mountain biking, backcountry skiing, and camping across the Pacific Northwest; and sailing, including as First Mate on the 110’ ketch S/Y Venturosa, and over 10,000 nautical miles of tidal sailing on the Pacific Northwest Coast.