Greenhouse gas emissions from commercial vehicles are a major contributor to climate change worldwide and need to be reduced to meet net-zero GHG targets. High-efficiency engines will continue to be used in many countries for the foreseeable future; switching the fuel to low-carbon methane blended with renewably generated Hydrogen offers a pathway to low net […]

Brainswitch Labs is a Vancouver-based startup in the VR Health space. We are developing an application that helps mental health therapists to get their patients into a mental state receptive to therapy. Our goal for this time period is to release a public version of our product to the Meta App lab marketplace.

Boundary Pass is a busy vessel traffic area of the Salish Sea and is a critical foraging habitat for many cetacean species, specifically Southern Resident killer whales, transient (Bigg’s) and humpback whales. With the shipping lanes passing through this area, whales are at risk of disturbance from underwater noise and, at times, from close vessel […]

Building on research initiated by CERCA and Project Watershed on microplastic presence in the Cowichan and Comox estuary respectively the scope of the proposed project has been substantially expanded by including live samples of crustaceans, fish, and algae apart from sediment and water samples from the estuaries and their tributaries. The research will be conducted […]

User interfaces for health care apps can improve the quality of life of patients, and help them to have active lives despite their condition. In this fact, we highlight the importance of creating a well-designed interface for health care apps to support patients monitoring key parameters, recording daily personal facts, and treatmentadherence. In this research […]

In Actuarial Science and insurance, models are often used to assess risk using factors such as age, level of education, gender, environment, etc. In practice, there might be unobserved factors. When data are gathered, the accuracy of these models should be investigated. If the model is not well fitted by the data, subsequent influences could […]

This program will investigate the role disease plays in salmon declines and the risks posed by open-net salmon farming to wild Pacific salmon. First, our ongoing partnership with the Broughton Archipelago Transition Initiative (BATI) will monitor salmon-farm impacts, serving as a testing ground for monitoring technologies to support Indigenous self-determination. Second, we will expand our […]

On the former floodplain of the Mamquam River in Squamish, British Columbia are a series of side-channels that were constructed by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada in 1983-1996. These channels were built to restore some of the side-channel habitat that was lost following the dyking of the Mamquam River mainstem for flood protection. […]

One of the essential components of a lithium-ion battery is its electrodes, with the most common type comprising conducting coatings applied to both sides of a metal foil. The goal of this project is to develop a sensor for measuring thickness, conductivity, dielectric response and moisture content of the coating. The main challenge of this […]

Have you ever imagined a world where you can control everything at home and at work with your voice, even without having to read an instruction manual? Speech technologies based on artificial intelligence models promise to make that happen by teaching machines to recognize voice. However, these systems currently support only a few languages, and […]

Brain wave technologies allow researchers and clinicians to monitor the brain at work. Our team has developed a new technology that uses electroencephalography (EEG) to provide an online record of different brain functions in a very short period of time. The brain waves recorded by this technology may change normally as time passes and we […]

Using metal frames for constructing residential buildings is gaining attention in North America. They would be advantageous over wood frames because: (1) metal has a higher strength-to-weight ratio, therefore, less framing would be required, (2) metal frames are lighter in weight than wood, so easier to carry them on site, and (3) they offer better […]