Along the coast of British Columbia, eelgrass habitats (Zostera marina) have been declining due to impacts both on land and water. These areas are important for many fisheries and aquaculture in BC. Restoration work in degraded subtidal conditions, especially in log storage areas, is slow. Increased levels of organic material left in the sediments by […]

The proposed research is to participate in the design, production and evaluation of The Social Life of Water: Past, Present and Future, an interactive media exhibition and speaker/performance series on water sustainability at the Okanagan Heritage Museum. The exhibition and speaker/performance series are being created through an art-science collaboration among UBC Okanagan researchers and artists, […]

Notre monde moderne ne peut subsister sans l’apport continuel de métaux extraits du sol. Les gisements métallifères doivent être découverts. Ces découvertes résultent de travaux d’exploration. Pour guider les travaux d’exploration, des modèles de formation des gisements sont développés à partir de l’acquisition de données scientifiques. Le projet proposé vise à tester un modèle développé […]

This project will assist Sun Life Financial to build, implement and validate quantitatively sophisticated state-of-the-art models of its risk portfolio. This will result in a better quantitative and qualitative understanding of company’s risk, liability and capital profile, and thus in more effective risk management decision making process.

The purpose of this research is to create a model for evaluating the socio-economic contributions of human-powered outdoor activities to Alberta. This model will be used to help inform/educate policy makers at the municipal and provincial level to influence debate around the use, management and the allocation of government resources to public spaces. The Alberta […]

The NACO 2015 Early Stage Company Report will report on early-stage companies from the lense of the company, taking into account support from incubators, accelerators, and VCs. NACO will publish a final report that analyzes the extent to which different combinations of capital and strategic partnerships help entrepreneurial firms grow. The report will also aim […]

The key objective of this research is to develop a unit for combined heat and power production using biomass feedstock that can be used in remote areas where no grid power is available. Canada as the second largest country in the world, has a great potential for such units. Aboriginal communities or remote work facilities […]

The bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) and eastern meadowlark (Sturnella magna) are listed as a species at risk in several Canadian provinces. Both songbird species are most abundant in Ontario and breed in hayfields, pastures, and other grassland-like environments. Ontario’s Endangered Species Act (ESA) seeks to protect these species by regulating activities that negatively affect their habitat. […]

Les fonds cycle de vie (Target-Date Funds – TDF) sont des fonds dans lesquels les participants épargnent pour leur retraite et dont la proportion d’actifs investie en actifs risqués (équité) diminue à l’approche de la date cible de retraite. Dans certains cas, le processus d’ajustement se poursuit au-delà de la date de retraite. Le but […]

In white wines, the wine aroma plays a major role in determining wine quality and economic value. In many grape varieties cultivated in BC, the aroma makeup is built in the vineyard where key aromatics accumulate in the grapes. Irrigation and crop size adjustments are two main strategies that growers have adopted to manage fruit […]

This project aims to assess how the use of the novel “ultra-short echo-time” (UTE) MR imaging technology can “add value to” conventional MRI for detection and quantification of blood products in hemophilic joints. We will test this novel technology in joints of hemophilic patients with different stages of arthropathy presenting with blood products at different […]

The goal of the project is creating an automated “on line” decision tree for crop conditioning that allows predict and control the behavior of key indicators such as humidity ratio and temperature during the grain storage by Identifying the main environmental factors that are related to the drying and storage of grain as well as […]