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Understanding the threats: plastic pollution and migrating shorebirds – Year two

Discarded plastic is a significant environmental contaminant. Plastic pollution is found in marine and freshwater systems and affects a substantial number of aquatic species around the world, either by entanglement or ingestion of small pieces (i.e. microplastics). These plastic debris release dangerous chemicals with unknown toxic effects for species that rely on marine environments to survive. Estuarine mudflats are critical feeding habitats for migratory shorebirds and are also the last stop for high levels of microplastics coming from populated areas via freshwater rivers. This combination of food resources and plastic load make shorebirds highly susceptible to microplastic ingestion and plastic-derived chemical consequences. Studies reporting microplastics in shorebirds are limited and information to evaluate non-lethal effects on behavior or physiology are non-existent. This study looks to fill these knowledge gaps by using non-lethal sampling methods of live birds on two migratory flyways (Pacific and Atlantic) where we expect differences in plastics exposure. Given that shorebirds mostly use estuarine habitats to rest and prepare for long-distance migrations, we will test for relationships between microplastic load, chemical burden, and migratory performance. We will use automatic tracking devices and will examine migratory indices such as migration timing and body condition for relationships with level of plastic debris exposure. This applied study will enhance the intern’s research skills and it complies under several conservation purposes of the partner organization.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Kirsty Gurney

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Birds Canada (BC)

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Saskatchewan

Programme :

Elevate

Understanding the threats: plastic pollution and migrating shorebirds

Discarded plastic is a significant environmental contaminant. Plastic pollution is found in marine and freshwater systems and affects a substantial number of aquatic species around the world, either by entanglement or ingestion of small pieces (i.e. microplastics). These plastic debris release dangerous chemicals with unknown toxic effects for species that rely on marine environments to survive. Estuarine mudflats are critical feeding habitats for migratory shorebirds and are also the last stop for high levels of microplastics coming from populated areas via freshwater rivers. This combination of food resources and plastic load make shorebirds highly susceptible to microplastic ingestion and plastic-derived chemical consequences. Studies reporting microplastics in shorebirds are limited and information to evaluate non-lethal effects on behavior or physiology are non-existent. This study looks to fill these knowledge gaps by using non-lethal sampling methods of live birds on two migratory flyways (Pacific and Atlantic) where we expect differences in plastics exposure. Given that shorebirds mostly use estuarine habitats to rest and prepare for long-distance migrations, we will test for relationships between microplastic load, chemical burden, and migratory performance. We will use automatic tracking devices and will examine migratory indices such as migration timing and body condition for relationships with level of plastic debris exposure. This applied study will enhance the intern’s research skills and it complies under several conservation purposes of the partner organization.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Kirsty Gurney

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Birds Canada (BC)

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Saskatchewan

Programme :

Elevate

Situated Knowledge on Dementia Care Practices: Comparing Israel and Canada

The research project will look at modes and types of localized knowledge on the span of diseases under the umbrella of dementia. The project will try to detect and compare modes of knowledge transition, dispersion, and production about dementia prevention and early detection within and across two different cultural and social settings: the Canadian and the Israeli. Drawing on the anthropological assumption that knowledge is never a pure sphere disconnected from context and local cultures, we will set out to detect and analyze points on the surface of international knowledge (like international health programs, medicine markets, and more) along with cultural specificities of dementia prevention and early detection. We will show how these interactions are reflected in the local enactments of these knowledge types, as they emerge in localities while intersecting with norms, beliefs, and ways of life that are local. We expect to find frictions of the global phenomenon of knowledge dispersion about dementia prevention and early detection within specific locales and enlighten a new side of global health endeavors.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Annette Leibing

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Tel Aviv University

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Education; Other

Université :

Université de Montréal

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Développement d’une formulation à base d’enzymes efficaces pour la dégradation des hydrocarbures pétroliers dans les sols et les eaux souterraines

La pollution de l’environnement par les hydrocarbures pétroliers (HP) devient une problématique majeure. Plusieurs traitements chimiques, thermiques, biologiques, etc. des eaux et sols contaminés aux HP sont utilisés, in situ ou par excavation. Cependant, pour les applications in situ, les traitements biologiques paraissent comme une meilleure solution, car ils sont plus écologiques et répondent aux principes du développement durable. C’est dans ce contexte qu’Enutech, une entreprise, oeuvrant dans la réhabilitation des sites contaminés aux HP, a approché le professeur Adjallé, de l’INRS-ETE pour un projet de recherche en lien avec la problématique. Le but est de développer une formulation microbienne écologique à faible coût, en utilisant des résidus fermentescibles (à coût zéro) pour une dégradation efficace des HP dans différentes matrices (sol, eau, etc). Les résultats et retombées escomptés vont permettre à une entreprise canadienne d’acquérir des expertises pour produire et formuler ses propres produits microbiens pour la dégradation des HP.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Kokou Adjallé

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Enutech

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Programme :

Accelerate

Does investing in transition firms yield a carbon alpha ?

In recent years there has been increased demand for investment solutions that are respectful of the environment. Some firms have answered that demand by committing to reduce their Carbon emissions in order to help with the transition towards a green economy. These firms, to which we refer as “transition firms” are thus natural candidates for fund placements for environmentally-conscious investors. There is a database that gathers information about carbon emissions and carbon targets of firms worldwide. In this research project we aim at presenting the readers with a portrait of these firms that typically commit to carbon targets. Second, we are going to investigate whether financial profit can be attained by investing in those firms.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Geneviève Gauthier

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Addenda Capital (Montréal, QC)

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Finance and Insurance

Université :

HEC Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Identification of sensitive information by natural language processing (NLP)

This project will improve the learning capacities to recognize confidential information in documents of various formats. Thus, our project has to set up a technology (natural language process NLP and others) that emulates the way in which humans read a document and to process this information using inference rules and a master data.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Gilles Caporossi

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Mouvement des caisses Desjardins

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Finance and Insurance

Université :

HEC Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Investigating social-ecological enabling conditions for the revitalization of Indigenous clam management systems in an urban context

The general objective of the proposed activity is to increase the future productivity of Burrard Inlet and the contribution of seafood to the diet of Tsleil-Waututh Nation (TWN) members in support of the TWN Cumulative Effects Monitoring Initiative. Specifically, we propose to identify the primary environmental drivers of clam productivity and species composition in Burrard Inlet (ecological analysis); facilitate a platform for community knowledge exchange and collective visioning (transformation lab/knowledge exchange); as well as identify long-term desired outcomes and associated indicators for TWN clam tending practices in Burrard Inlet (semi-structured interviews).

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Anne Salomon

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Kerr Wood Leidal Associates Ltd

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Simon Fraser University

Programme :

Accelerate

The Labour Market and Economic Impacts of Mental Health in Huron and Perth Counties

The goal of the project is to contribute to knowledge generation about mental health and addiction in rural Ontario by exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on the supply (employees) and demand (employers) of the labour market.
In partnership with Gateway Rural Health this project will examine Huron and Perth Counties as case studies to explore The Labour Market and Economic Impacts of Mental Health on rural areas since the beginning of Covid-19. This project has three objectives:
1) To identify existing information and resources about both supply (employees) and demand (employees) related to rural labour markets. Particular attention will be given to information from rural Australia, Western Europe, and the United States.
2) To investigate local labour market experiences from across Perth-Huron (survey/interviews).
3) To develop recommendations for relevant organizations related to market experiences, labour decisions, and impact of disruption.
Outcomes from this project will support rural communities to develop effective local policies and planning strategies to respond to the coronavirus pandemic and future disruptive events.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Leith Deacon

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Guelph

Programme :

Accelerate

Hypothesis transfer in medical image analysis

Recent years have seen a wealth of clinical evidence accumulate in favor of the radiomics hypothesis, wherein standard-issue oncological medical images, such as CTs, PET-CTs and MRIs, exhibit reliable fingerprints of cancer tumor genetic makeup, enabling predictions of patient prognosis, treatment resistance and side effects to be made directly from an analysis of imaging data. However, these techniques require a large number of detailed hand-labeled data and annotations and so far have relied on hand-engineered features, limiting their scope and practical impact. This project aims at leveraging labels obtained from different datasets using novel domain adaptation techniques.
In vision applications, Hypothesis Transfer Learning (HTL) has emerged as a learning strategy to adapt the knowledge learned from one dataset (source domain) to a query dataset (target domain) and has shown superior performance to more conventional domain adaptation methods [1]. HTL has only been experimented with covariate shift (domain shift) and assumes similar class distributions between source and target domains. However, class distribution shifts and feature distribution shifts between datasets are common phenomena in medical imaging. With this incentive, an experimental study on the effectiveness of HTL in the medical domain and how it contrasts with other domain adaptation applications will be conducted.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Thomas Fevens

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Imagia

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Concordia University

Programme :

Accelerate

Business-Oriented User Persona Construction and Preference Prediction: A Big Data-Based Machine Learning Approach

In this project, a group of scholars in computer science and business proposes using state-of-the-art machine learning methods for secondary-data-based persona construction and preference prediction. Specifically, the researchers will use recent data dimension reduction methods to process the raw data, use new machine learning models to achieve better learning results, and use self-supervised technology and unsupervised clustering technology to achieve efficiency in model training and learning.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Yimin Yang;Will Zhao

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

PTPA Media Inc

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Lakehead University

Programme :

Accelerate

Efficacy of Harm Reduction Approaches to Hoarding in Social Housing

Hoarding involves keeping so many objects that the home becomes unsafe or unhealthy. Due to fire risks and other issues, hoarding can also be unsafe for neighbours – risks that housing providers must manage. A common strategy in social housing settings is to evict the tenant or forcibly clean out the unit, traumatic practices that can leave tenants at risk of homelessness. Lookout Housing and Health Society is partnering with UBC researchers to document the effectiveness of their harm reduction program to address health and safety issues in hoarded units. The key question is: Does the harm reduction approach achieve health and safety goals and support tenant wellness? We will use fire and building inspection reports, staff members’ reports, and tenants’ self-report measures to fill an important knowledge gap about interventions for hoarding and to help Lookout justify permanent funding for this program and inspire practice change among other housing providers.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Sheila Woody;Christiana Bratiotis

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Lookout Housing and Health Society

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Cable Simulation Methods Using Nonlinear Finite Elements

Cable systems play an important role in many large scale simulation applications. Examples include marine systems, mining machinery, and cranes. The high fidelity and efficient modelling and simulation of these systems can enhance the applications and usability dynamic modelling environments. In this project we particularly target to develop models and efficient algorithms based on nonlinear finite element representation of the cables in largescale multibody simulation models. We will investigate core modeling and implementation aspects that are directly related to practical applications. The partner organization, CMLabs will greatly benefit from this project. The proposed work is of direct relevance to their current work, can have applications in many projects, and will also open up possibilities to broaden the applications of CMLabs’ software platform Vortex.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jozsef Kovecses

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

CMLabs

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Accelerate

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