With increasing demand for fish and seafood products globally, inland aquaculture is becoming an important source of global food production. This is primarily because food can be produced in proximity to large and densely populated areas, cutting down on transportation costs and emissions. It also allows the use of a more diverse set of species […]

Meeting Canada’s commitment to the Paris Agreement will require a fundamental shift in our energy system: increased generation from renewable sources, electrification of the transport and building sectors, and planning harmonization across jurisdictional scales. A new United Nations climate science report estimates that the world will invest an average of $3 trillion dollars per year […]

Feature-rich design software is of critical importance to many industries, including manufacturing, architecture, and construction. A common feature of this software is that, to be used effectively, the user must possess technical competency and an understanding of the specific workflows and practices for using the software within their organizations. In the past, users could get […]

Le socle rocheux de l’île de Montréal est constitué de calcaires déposés sur la marge continentale de Laurentia, il y a 450 millions d’années, qui bordait alors un océan où existait une intense activité volcanique. La stratigraphie de ces formations rocheuses est bien documentée, mais il est encore difficile de déterminer précisément la position stratigraphique […]

Ce projet recherche porte sur la mise en place d’un nouveau dispositif relationnel de coopération pour favoriser une gestion de classe efficace au collégial. Ce projet de recherche propose comme premier objectif de décrire le processus de mise en place et de maintien du dispositif relationnel de coopération de St-Germain (2016) pour favoriser une gestion […]

Pollutants from various anthropogenic sources contaminate the environment which in tum affects the ambient air quality. When general population gets exposed to these contaminant through contaminated air they would have adverse health effects. The objective of the project is to perform air quality assessment for a chemical manufacturing plant, located in Alberta (exact location is […]

In large-scale construction projects such as naval refits or aircraft overhauls, project execution is subject to considerable uncertainty and a baseline schedule quickly becomes unachievable. For naval environments, high variability in work scope and duration occur at every stage. Furthermore, tools and equipment can fail or not be on-site when needed. Human resources are drawn […]

The explosion of data from personal phones, apps, and sensors have enabled powerful machine learning algorithms to help computers identify, categorize, and evaluate information without the help of humans. However, teaching computers how to identify, categorize, and evaluate information usually requires feeding the computers a lot of data pre-labelled by humans. The pre-labelling process is […]

The research aims to examine the amount and type of microplastics in wastewater streams entering the Ottawa River. As wastewater treatment has been identified as one of the main conduits of microplastics to freshwater environments, the research will sample both wastewater effluent and combined sewer overflows to get a better understanding on how many, and […]

Predicting future wood supply is critical for stakeholders in the forest product sector to sustainably manage their activities. Such predictions are subject to various bio-physical factors. Several NB forest companies have made a priority to focus on the management of and adaptation to two of these environmental factors: climate change and, to a lesser extent, […]

The climate conditions of outdoor urban spaces is strongly influenced by the form and materiality of surrounding buildings. Features as specific as balconies and different-coloured claddings can contribute to the temperatures felt by pedestrians in the immediate vicinity. This project aims to discover architectural features which improve outdoor thermal comfort during the shoulder seasons of […]

A crisis is looming for many Ontario citizens with developmental disability and other challenges that make their support needs especially complex. In recent decades a process of deinstitutionalization moved the Province away from a morally problematic “warehousing” model towards one where people had an opportunity at meaningful lives in their communities. However, many are living […]