Eskasoni Community Foodbank is working to address an issue that impacts many communities: food insecurity. While they’ve made great strides in helping people access food through programs like community meals, cooking classes, and a social supermarket, there’s a need to go further. Food insecurity is more than just a lack of food—it’s tied to people’s […]

Glace Bay Citizen’s Service League – Town House is working to address an issue that impacts many communities: food insecurity. While they’ve made great strides in helping people access food through programs like community meals, cooking classes, and a social supermarket, there’s a need to go further. Food insecurity is more than just a lack […]

Experimental development of novel sensor hardware for measuring ammonia in marine environments. This includes prototype development, preliminary testing and validation.

This project has two main goals: 1- to create SCI’s Strategic and Business plans, and Operational policies, and white papers to distribute widely, establishing “best practices” to foster EDIARD at our foundations and in the music industry more broadly. 2 – to research and produce music and cultural knowledge documenting and celebrating diverse communities, while […]

This research will explore ways the craft sector in Unama’ki: Cape Breton can adapt to become more sustainable. That exploration will inform the development of visually engaging resources and reports that will be shared broadly with artists, craftspeople, and others in the craft and culture sector.?This will include a toolkit, map of resources for craftspeople, […]

In this research endeavor, our primary objective is to convert juice industry waste into biochar—a carbon-rich material—via biomass preprocessing and optimized pyrolysis. Employing advanced analytical techniques, we aim to comprehensively identify and understand the organic and inorganic elements, surface area, and micropore volume within the biochar. The ultimate goal is to unlock the diverse applications […]

Sedimentary rocks undergo chemical and physical alteration as they are buried beneath Earth’s surface. Understanding these alteration processes is important in understanding the rocks potential as groundwater aquifers, in understanding the geohazards they may pose, and more. The Dawson Bay Formation is a 385-million-year-old limestone present across Saskatchewan that had a peculiar set of conditions […]

Our CBU Research Team is working with Net-Zero Atlantic under the NZA Program to develop a point-source carbon capture and storage technology that 1) uses a capture medium constituted from seawater and 2) employs a technique that permanently sequesters the captured carbon as metal carbonates using the contaminated water of flooded former mines. This work […]

B. W. BioEnergy Inc. produces high-quality carbon from renewable hardwood trees (birch, alder, willow and maple) in a patent-pending torrefaction process. The trees are debarked to produce the carbon which is 10-times more effective than commercial coconut carbon. Tree bark is a waste product and currently used to fuel the torrefaction process. Mi’kmaq and other […]

The trees surrounding the source drinking water lakes in Cape Breton Regional Municipality influence the pH and electrical conductivity of throughfall water in preliminary studies, particularly conifers like black spruce. The Kelly Lake Watershed that provides drinking water to the community of Louisbourg suffers from an acidity pulse each spring, potentially influenced by overland flow […]

Deepchill and slurry ice is a dynamic medium whose fluid properties change with many different factors such as solute concentration, ice fraction or thickness, temperature, time (settling) and agitation. Once it is generated, it must be stored in different forms depending on the required final applied. Storage, fluidization and distribution of this medium is a […]

Mops & Pops Water Taxi business is developed with the idea of creating a tourist activity, business event venue, an expansion in the transit system, and highlights the expanding Sydney Waterfront. The business will start water taxi services under contract with the Sydney Port Authority. The taxi service would be cost affordable and based on […]