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Wild Atlantic Salmon Watersheds

The rate and magnitude of environmental change present a threat to freshwater fish populations. In Atlantic Canada the impacts to the freshwater ecosystems will arise through elevated water temperatures, alterations in precipitation, variability in ice cover and frequency of natural and man-made disturbances. In addition, temporal and spatial changes to precipitation alter seasonal flow patterns having negative effects on the population.
The practical applications will enable scientists, managers, and local watershed stakeholders to; (1) understand better the connections between physical processes, life history and habitat sensitivity; (2) acknowledge and understand the connections between representative data, river processes, evaluation of key attributes, change scenarios, impacts of change, and trade-offs and decision-making in the planning and design process; (3) become aware of adaption options that can minimize risks to species and habitat; (4) provide project monitoring and evaluation, and foster consistent reporting; and (5) promote best practices for effective future river planning.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Michael Van Zyll de Jong

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Atlantic Salmon Federation

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of New Brunswick

Programme :

Accelerate

Use of scandium to control titanium alloy properties

Scandium (Sc) is an attractive alloying element that has strong affinity with oxygen (serving as deoxidiser) as well as a strong affinity with aluminum for the development of Al3Sc precipitates that can strengthen materials. Currently, the availability and cost of Sc is preventing its wide utilisation as alloying element. The recent announce by RTIT of a large reserve of Sc can totally transform the availability and market reality for Sc as alloying element. In the current project, RTIT is interested to evaluate the potential of using Sc in titanium alloys and quantify the individual and/or combined gains from deoxidation and strengthening. The goal of the project for RTIT is to evaluate if improved alloy variants can be obtained with the addition of Sc.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Mathieu Brochu

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Rio Tinto Fer et Titane inc.

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Mining

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Accelerate

Machine Learning for Optimal Material Design in CO2 Capture

This proposal aims to accelerate the discovery of materials in Chemical looping combustion (CLC),
which is an emerging technology that requires lower energy expenditure to capture CO2 from fossil fuels.
A machine learning (ML) framework that only requires a limited amount of data for training will be
developed. Atomistic simulations will be conducted to predict the energetics of the CLC system for
different set of materials. Results from the atomistic simulations will be used to train the ML method,
which will use Meta-learning and domain adaptation techniques to predict promising materials using a
Bayesian optimization framework. Experimental testing will be conducted to validate the predictions
from the proposed ML framework. Syngas on a perovskite-based material will be used as the system to
develop, test, and validate the proposed ML algorithm.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Luis Ricardez-Sandoval;Luis Ricardez Sandoval;David Simakov;Pascal Poupart

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Bank of Montreal

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Finance and Insurance

Université :

University of Waterloo

Programme :

Accelerate

Bioenergy production through mixed culture

The adverse impacts of fossil fuels on the environment, specifically climate change, have intensified the need for finding a sustainable alternative source of energy. Numerous studies have postulated that biotechnology development, focusing on biofuel production processes, could be a suitable solution for sustainable energy production. The utilization of microorganisms, such as microalgae, is one of the basic strategies to produce biodiesel, pharmaceuticals, and nutraceuticals. Co-cultivation has overtaken mono-cultivation to improve the production of microalgae due to its endurance, foreseeability, and stability. The research focuses on the crucial needs for the optimization of biofuel production process. It supports the Canadian energy and environment sectors which are seriously searching for more efficient process, targeting the increasing concern of the society with respect to the fossil fuel energy resources depletion and environmental footprints. The MITACS support will be used to hire a research assistant to support the activities envisaged in the project. The research assistant will bear the theoretical attempts and practical efforts at the facilities provided by the partner and at Memorial University (MUN).

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Sohrab Zendehboudi

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Capillarity Limited

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Programme :

Accelerate

Multi-material Additive Manufacturing of Functional Ceramics

This proposal involves using 3-D printing technology to form a ceramic sensor. The sensor can be used by navies to detect submarines. The ceramic sensors are either an underwater sound projector, an underwater microphone, or both. The 3-D printing technology should allow larger, more sophisticated sensors to be manufactured. The technology should simplify the build process by reducing the number of steps required to build the ceramic sensor. This technology is expected to benefit the Canadian Navy in future applications and enhance the Ultra product portfolio to increase export sales and the associated benefits to Canada that they bring.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Kevin Plucknett

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Ultra Electronics Maritime Systems Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Dalhousie University

Programme :

Accelerate

Social cartographies of land conservation practices

This project explores different approaches to land conservation practices in the Amazon region of Brazil and in Canada. In particular, the project will explore the differences in understandings of land conservation practices between mainstream land conservation organizations and Indigenous understandings of land conservation. Based on the project research regarding these different approaches, the project will develop an Indigenous-led strategic plan that will outline an agenda for decolonization of land conservation practices in both Canada and Brazil. The project will also develop a corresponding educational toolkit that will help those working in land conservation organizations to better understand what decolonization is, why is it important, and how it may be approached in ways that are ethical, accountable, and effective.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Sharon Stein;Cash Ahenakew

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

rare Charitable Research Reserve

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Other services (except public administration)

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Role of Ribosomal Protein Ubiquitination in Chemotherapy- and Stress-induced RNA disruption in Tumour Cells

We have observed that chemotherapy agents can induce RNA degradation in tumour cells, a phenomenon called “RNA disruption”. Interestingly, we also found that high tumour RNA disruption after 2-3 cycles of chemotherapy predicts for complete tumour destruction after treatment and improved cancer patient survival. We and Rna Diagnostics, Inc. are using this knowledge to identify patients with non-responding tumours early in treatment, who might benefit from discontinuing chemotherapy (and its side effects) and moving on to alternate treatments. We now seek to identify earlier events in the RNA disruption process in order to accelerate our ability to predict chemotherapy outcome. The student will examine whether ubiquitination of ribosomal proteins and the activation of two key RNA degradation pathways precedes and are necessary for chemotherapy-dependent RNA disruption.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Tom Kovala

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

RNA Diagnostics Inc

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Laurentian University

Programme :

Accelerate

Triassic-Early Jurassic Central Atlantic and mid-Cretaceous Scotian Margin Geochemical, Organic, and Biostratigraphic Events – a test case for molecular sequence stratigraphy

Development of oil and natural gas production in Atlantic Canada has mainly occurred in the offshore of Newfoundland, Labrador, and Nova Scotia. Energy Nova Scotia has estimated reservoir potential for Nova Scotia has been as high as 120 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 8 billion barrels of oil. These reserves occur along the Scotian Margin, a portion of the North American continental shelf extending for ~500 km along the length of the eastern coastal seaboard. Over this distance the margin descends to a depth of 5,000 m. Continuous subsidence and sediment deposition over the last 250 million years has produced thicknesses reaching 24 km (Wade and MacLean 1990) with its proven petroleum system in some areas being disrupted by salt tectonism (e.g. Deptuck and Kendell, 2017, 2020). Thus far, production largely focused on the Sable Island gas reserves (OERA, 2011). However, industry investment has waned with all commercial production now ended. Nonetheless, multiple indications suggest that black oil reserves could also be present within one or more of the sub-basins (OERA, 2011).

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Todd Ventura

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Offshore Energy Research Association of Nova Scotia

Discipline :

Earth science

Secteur :

Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Saint Mary's University

Programme :

Accelerate

Intégration optimale de procédés thermiques en serres agricoles pour la gestion efficace des besoins énergétiques

La production maraîchère en serre au Canada est grandement limitée par les coûts associés à la demande énergétique nécessaire à maintenir le climat intérieur. Une piste de solution prometteuse est d’augmenter la récupération d’énergie thermique intermittente et l’apport d’énergies renouvelables (ex. solaire, géothermique) aux systèmes de chauffage, de refroidissement, et de déshumidification des serres. L’expertise nécessaire pour choisir et combiner les technologies disponibles (ex. stockage thermique) reste hors de la portée de la majorité des producteurs en serre. Dans la proposition de recherche, la méthode de « Pincement Intermittent » sera adaptée à un projet de rénovation des Serres St-Élie (SSE), qui est un producteur important de plants de légumes et de petits fruits au Canada. SSE souhaite rénover une serre 50 000 pieds carrés (4 700 m2) de superficie, qui permettra d’augmenter la production actuelle, participer à l’approvisionnement de commerces locales, tout en limitant l’empreinte carbone de ses produits.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Mikhail Sorin;Philippe Micheau

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Serres St-Élie;Gobeil Dion & Associés Inc.;Intégration Construction inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Agriculture

Université :

Université de Sherbrooke

Programme :

Accelerate

Robustness of Reinforcement Learning to Attacks and Adversarial environments

Reinforcement learning algorithms are successfully employed in diverse industries, for instance in autonomous driving, trading or gaming. However, their generalization especially in critical-decision making systems has raised concerns about their robustness to attacks. The 22nd recommendation issued by the White House (2016) to prepare for the future of AI states: ”Agencies (…) should ensure that AI systems and ecosystems are secure and resilient to intelligent opponents”. Existing works on the robustness of RL to attacks assume that the attacks originate from an outsider (akin to a hacker) capable of manipulating the environment, which destabilizes the agent’s and degrades their performance. In this project, we adopt a setting where the attacker is naturally present in the environment. Their goal is to observe and model a targeted agent’s actions in order to destabilize and degrade their performance. This setting unveils the need for methods enabling humans to accurately interpret the intentions underlying the interactions between RL agents in order to identify potential threats and the need to develop new defense mechanisms to decrease the likelihood and the impact of such attacks.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Audrey Durand

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Thales Canada Inc (Montreal, QC)

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Management of companies and enterprises; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université Laval

Programme :

Accelerate

Reinforcement Learning Approach for Improving the Dynamic Response of Frequency in Low-Inertia Islanded Active Grids

The structure of power grid is changing due to the integration of distributed energy resources, especially the renewables and energy storage. These resources with power electronic converters provide additional controllability to grid operators and provide the capability of operating the interconnected gird as several active decentralized systems for enhancing system reliability and maintaining system resiliency. This capability can be highly important in the face of increasingly frequent extreme weather events that can cause widespread physical damage to grid infrastructure or create spikes in the electricity demand, and other disruptive events such as cyber-attacks or solar activity.
The basic idea is that a large power system can be developed into several active networks and each of the active network can not only operate parallel with the main grid but also is capable of operating independently as power islands in case of major system events. However, coordinated control of large number of distributed energy resources is a complex problem. But the digitization of information and the development of smart energy networks enable the realization of data driven solutions empowered by machine learning technology to such complex problems.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Athula Rajapakse

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Manitoba Hydro

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

Université :

University of Manitoba

Programme :

Accelerate

Valorisation conjointe de résidus urbains et industriels putrescibles pour la production de biogaz

Depuis environ une décennie, il est possible d’observer en Europe une recrudescence de l’intérêt envers la production de biogaz. Ce dernier revêt un intérêt particulier en ce qu’il permet une réduction de la dépendance envers le gaz naturel, tout en offrant une perspective de valorisation des résidus putrescibles. Depuis quelques années maintenant, cet intérêt envers la production de gaz naturel renouvelable s’est transposé à l’Amérique du Nord, et plus spécifiquement au Canada et au Québec. En effet, dans l’objectif de réduire leur empreinte de carbone, les gouvernements provincial et fédéral considèrent de plus en plus sérieusement la production de biogaz pour réduire l’intensité de carbone du gaz naturel. Par le fait même, cette pratique pourrait permettre une plus saine gestion des matières résiduelles, car elle pourrait permettre la production d’énergie à partir de résidus dont la teneur en eau et l’hétérogénéité rendraient autrement difficile la valorisation par d’autres techniques telles les approches de conversion thermochimiques. Dans un souci de réduire l’enfouissement des matières résiduelles, leur valorisation représente une opportunité très intéressante et cette réalité est propre autant à la situation urbaine qu’industrielle.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jean-Michel Lavoie

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Viridis Environnement

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Université :

Université de Sherbrooke

Programme :

Accelerate

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