The Rural Asset Management in a Changing Climate (RMACC) project will develop asset management capacity and guide the implementation of asset management plans and policies that account for future challenges posed by climate change with a cohort of five small municipalities. The objective of the project is to perform asset management planning in a comprehensive […]

The proposed project consists of a literature review and jurisdictional scan. We are seeking to understand the past and current literature on youth economic engagement, labour market engagement, post-secondary and training strategies and research, social wellbeing, and specific vulnerabilities for youth when engaging in the labour market. CFY will use this research to shape strategic […]

Data collection over time is a common practice in many large organizations- including financial institutions and health care providers- often with the goal of using this data to predict future challenges and opportunities. While this data may contain valuable information, it is often unstructured, coming from different sources and recorded at different times. This lack […]

Public safety personnel (PSP; e.g., police officers, firefighters, paramedics, 911 communications) work to keep the Canadian public healthy and safe. Yet, as part of their jobs, PSP experience events that can be traumatic, making it more likely that PSP will develop mental health disorders compared to general people. Public safety communicators (e.g., 911, police, fire, […]

Rocks are a widely varied class of materials with strengths, elastic constants and other properties varying by one or two orders of magnitude, ranging from the weakest to the strongest rock types. As well, within any given rock mass, properties can be heterogeneous and isotropic, and can vary with both position and orientation within the […]

Social Enterprise is a catalyst for social and economic empowerment and inclusion, and has been identified as an innovative opportunity to address workforce challenges and economic sustainability in Southwestern Newfoundland. The goal of this project is to facilitate evidence-based research and analysis and to disseminate resources and practical tools which encourages and supports social enterprise […]

As resource exploration and development moves further north into harsher environments and more severe ice conditions, the risk of a spill in ice-covered waters-whether it is as a result of drilling, production or storage and transport of product-increases. The first steps in the management, cleanup and remediation are the detection, localization and tracking of the […]

The proposed project will focus on the development of low-cost, self-consolidating concrete (SCC) mixtures containing a high volume of silica breccia. The workability, fresh properties and local unit cost of SCC containing 0-70% silica breccia (as a partial replacement for cement) will be investigated and compared with the control mixture and with other SCC mixtures […]

The proposed investigation will combine the petrographic and geochemical techniques to better understand the geochemistry of the Martin Point slope carbonates in comparison with their modern biotic and abiotic counterparts to evaluate the degree of preservation of primary geochemical, a cornerstone of building reliable interpretations. This work is beneficial from a planning and costing exercise […]

Environmental variability is a fundamental component of adaptation; it is usually associated with modifications in the organism’s observable traits, particularly for those with limited plasticity. We will use a bioenergetic model as a framework to understand this variance in the organism’s traits. We will focus on the effect of individual physiological differences, which are represented […]

The objective of the proposed research is to carry out numerical and experimental studies on the performance degradation of propeller blades in three different scales with leading-edge (LE) manufacturing tolerances. In the experimental studies, three single propeller blades in three scales (1:1, 1:2 and 3:4) will be tested in a cavitation tunnel. Flow velocities and […]

Home automation and smart devices offer the opportunities for consumers to save on costs. Furthermore, it is observed that home residents living in climates which require seasonal heating can achieve significant energy savings through thermostat adjustment. The aim of this project is to explore how smart thermostats track, control, and reduce electric resource consumption compared […]