Pucktive is a protective hockey apparel company. We make and sell cut-resistant hockey apparel that players wear underneath their equipment to protect themselves from being cut by skates. Hockey is a fast-paced contact sport played with skates on your feet with sharp metal blades. These blades can cause serious injuries and in some cases death. […]

This project will be used to help develop tools for modelling how we control and optimize the size of bubbles that are needed in some industrial reactors. The current application is related to on-going work that is helping to reduce the energy needed to produce existing carbon-based fuels, but is also applicable to aquaculture, bioreactors, […]

Surveillance efforts of cetaceans in Canada follow systematic line transect survey designs. These surveys are designed to minimize variance between surveys to aid in abundance and distribution estimates of whales in Canadian waters. Following the shift of North Atlantic right whales (NARW) into the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the introduction of fisheries and vessel […]

The Halifax Port Authority (HPA) is launching a study that will examine aquatic ecosystems in the Halifax Harbour. This work will support HPA in better understanding local ecosystems that have the potential to be affected by port operations and thus determine the port’s zones of influence. This research study will help to establish benchmarks for […]

The overall objective of the proposed initiative is to develop a novel, automated and integrated field operation and berry harvesting system that will identify the root causes of increased loses; increase berry picking efficiency and product quality. Currently, there are 15 to 25% fruit yield losses during the harvesting with the existing commercial blueberry harvester. […]

This proposal is devoted to two areas of sheep production: animal health (parasitic infection) and feed efficiency, which both impact profitability and sustainability. We will investigate potential machine learning using biomarkers indicating parasite resistance and feed efficiency in differentiated animals early in life. One postdoctoral fellow (PDF) will use metabolomics, genomics, and machine learning to […]

This project will investigate the feasibility of applying fixed-bed chemical looping as a technology for off-gas cleanup and heat recovery from a conventional steelmaking process. Investigation will consist of thermodynamic studies and material selection, numerical investigation of system dynamics using a specialized process model, and experimental investigation for a bench-scale proof of concept. Experimental results […]

Nova Scotia plans to become a major player in the global hydrogen market. The province wants to produce green hydrogen and green ammonia using renewable electricity. Hydrogen, ammonia, and carbon dioxide are three precursors to products that will be essential to a sustainable future: Methanol can be produced by combining green hydrogen and carbon dioxide, […]

The project aims to develop an interactive dashboard to accompany a report on the state of literacy in Nova Scotia to be produced by Literacy Nova Scotia (LNS), as a means of quickly communicating key information for policy decision-makers and internal stakeholders. Through a participatory design program, we will engage with internal and external stakeholders […]

This scoping review will explore the research base of the intersections of peer support training and implementation. The partner organization will benefit from this project as it will form the foundation of a longer-term goal of developing a training module for early psychosis peer support workers.

Modern agriculture has focused on cultivating annual crops for their uniformity and quick production timeline. However, a sustainable ecosystem includes the combination of annual and perennial plants, with perennials providing soil health services and resilience under dynamic conditions. Newly developed lineages of intermediate wheatgrass, a perennial crop that uniquely produces grain and forage, were introduced […]

Research will be conducted to determine the best way to visualize and operationalize engine performance data collected in real-time for vessel owners and operators. Performance data will be correlated to weather and sea conditions to understand their impacts on fuel usage and emissions. The methods of displaying data will be explored to determine the best […]