Organic food waste is a significant stream of municipal solid waste generated in the Industrial-Commercial-Institutional (ICI) sectors in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). Composting has been regarded as an effective way of handling this waste stream. This project will develop a comprehensive composting-based management system. to optimize the organic food waste collection and composting locations.

This project aims to design sustainable new microsystems to power data monitoring buoys that can provide a sustainable power source using the ocean waves dynamics. The proposed project will result in significant advances in three long-standing challenges in energy harvesters-based micro devices powering the data monitoring buoys using the ocean waves. These include low frequencies […]

The special characteristics of plastics have led to them taking an essential role in society. Unfortunately, plastic consumption, production and disposal significantly impact the community. The failure of research labs to better understand the actual costs of lab plastic wastes has led to poor management of plastic materials and growing social, ecological and economic costs […]

This project will help the drilling industry accept new technologies. This work will focus on create and testing more robust controllers for choke control, applying advanced controller techniques and designing these controllers to accommodate diverse operating conditions in different rigs.

Slips, trips, and falls (STFs) are a major concern in occupational environments, accounting for a significant portion of all reported work-related injuries in Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore petroleum industry. Perturbation-based training has been shown as an effective measure in developing appropriate postural responses for young and older adults. This proposed research aims to address the […]

This proposed project is to develop efficient sensing materials and devices that can detect trace amounts of reactive oxygen species (ROS), in particular a type of activated oxygen, namely singlet oxygen. Detection of singlet oxygen is an important but very challenging task in biological and pharmaceutical applications. The main difficulty in detecting singlet oxygen is […]

Our project proposed an invention of a fully self-contained, autonomous flying robot that can mimic the morphology of the bat wings. Inspired by its attractive flying characteristics, our flying robot could achieve more agile flying ability in hovering and turning than conventional micro aerial vehicles. Meanwhile, the shape-morphing and flapping wings help the robot fly […]

St. Anthony is the largest town on Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula and is connected to Newfoundland’s island grid by a 248 km transmission line. This research will investigate the best locations for wind turbine installation.

This project will help us build and assess our current programming. It will also develop an efficient system to collect and understand our membership demographic and the uptake of programming offered by MWONL.

There are no shortage of news stories concerning the challenges in the healthcare system. These include covid impacts, financial challenges, human resource challenges related to recruitment, burnout and retention, as well as the need for the system to operate more efficiently (see https://www.cma.ca/news-releases-and-statements/canadas-health-system-life-support-health-workers-call-urgent ; https://www.macleans.ca/society/health/our-current-health-care-disaster-could-have-been-averted/ ). Provinces often devote up to 40% of their budgets […]

Hydroponic greenhouse agriculture is an excellent method of producing crops throughout the year in agro-climatologically challenging remote provinces such as Newfoundland and Labrador. However, energy requirements for heating, ventilation and light may reduce profitability of greenhouses even with high local demand for products. This pre-feasibility study investigates the potential of using mini-hydroelectric power to generate […]

Birch Scientific has recently completed an innovation project on the development of digital twin software to support enhanced operations in drilling activities. The grade of software developed thus far must be polished into product form for deployment to customers. This project includes significant software quality assurance(QA) work, developing deployment processes and gathering of customer requirements.