The primary goal of this “Landscape of Grand Pré ” research project, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (LGPI 2025), examines how the visitor experience can be enhanced by employing an interactive QR coded smart phone application (app). The second goal assesses how the app can raise awareness of the Landscape’s storied history in shaping Canada’s […]

This project will create a dashboard for the automatic tracking of digital asset investments. By using data directly from the blockchain, this dashboard will be more accurate and comprehensive than existing solutions. Further, much of this work is currently being done manually and using spreadsheets by the partner, with this dashboard the expect to 3x […]

This research project aims to answer whether a parasport coach workshop can lead to positive changes in coaching behavior, increase coaches’ confidence, and improve the sport experiences of adult parasport athletes in Nova Scotia. With the support of Sport Nova Scotia and the Canadian Sport Institute Atlantic, the project will test a pilot workshop that, […]

The objective of the proposed research is to develop a statistical analysis framework that provides a reliable profile of Nova Scotia’s white-tailed deer population based on deer related data sources. This project is to support improvements to deer management in Nova Scotia. Improved management and conservation of Nova Scotia’s most important big game species supports […]

This MITACS and its proposed support of interns is designed to expand an ongoing collaboration that exists between Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation, Environment Canada, aboriginal Wildlife Co-Management Boards, and academic collaborators. Together the group will collectively address several marine wildlife issues using a diversity of innovative research techniques including wildlife tracking devices attached to seabirds, […]

Christmas tree growers in Nova Scotia are experiencing high demand for trees along with increasing pressure to adapt to changing climate conditions. Trees well-suited to local climates showing preferred traits like enhanced needle retention, needle length/colour and later flushing dates is required. Testing and production of these trees requires cloning new lines and somatic embryogenesis […]

In this project, a process improvement will be developed for splitting open cultured algal cells to release nutritional oils contained within. A high-energy pulsed laser will be used to deliver short but intense light bursts to cause the lysis of algal cells. This technology will be applied at the production scale at Mara Renewables in […]

Christmas tree growers in Nova Scotia are experiencing high demand for trees along with increasing pressure to adapt to changing climate conditions. The Christmas Tree Council of Nova Scotia (CTCNS) is the parent organization of three regional Christmas tree associations representing over 300 Christmas tree growers who grow primarily Balsam fir. These growers need trees […]

Following the completion of the Annapolis River Tidal Power Generating Station in 1984, the abundance of many native diadromous fish species declined in the river. In 2019, new regulatory directives resulted in the abrupt termination of power generating activities, and tide gates that had barred access to the river were left open for the first […]

This research project aims to investigate strategies and approaches for designing and implementing sustainable, community-centered programs that effectively empower employed students, address local community needs, and have positive long-lasting effects on both the community and students. As an organization whose community programming relies heavily on student employment, the expected benefit to the Ecology Action Centre […]

We will use several databases from Canada and the USA which hold more than 30 years of scientific survey and citizen-science observations of common loon breeding on lakes across eastern and central North America, to determine regional population trajectories and evaluate what threats or factors might explain variation in reproductive success. We will also focus […]

The Probiotics and Mental Health Research Lab in the Psychology Department at Acadia University is currently involved in exciting and innovative research examining the benefits that probiotics (a type of beneficial bacteria found in the human digestive tract as well as in certain foods) may provide to individuals living with psychological conditions such as anxiety, […]