Disturbance by boats to marine mammals, including strikes and noise, comprise the most frequent human-caused threats to marine mammals, having significant impacts on individuals, populations, and boater safety. The proposed project aims to observe boater behaviour and assess how local regulations and guidelines are used in a region with high boater and marine mammal activity. […]

Communication skills are among the most valuable abilities managers bring to their roles. Strong communication skills are essential for workplace productivity, safety, teamwork, and employee engagement. However, research shows many managers struggle to communicate effectively. This project will assess which communication skills are important to employers, and Master of Business Administration (MBA) staff and students […]

Elemental Sulphur (So) is a natural crop input commonly used in organic farming. It can be used to fertilize soil, make soils more acidic or control pathogens. These multiple uses make So a unique organic input that can improve growth conditions for crops. The effect of So on soil microbes is largely unknown, despite the […]

The mandate of the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness is to end homelessness in the Capital Region by 2018. Significant progress has been made, 162 units of supportive and 129 units of affordable housing have been built since 2009, yet homelessness remains a significant problem in Victoria, BC (Pauly et al., 2013). There continues […]

Sockeye salmon are an iconic species that live in the Fraser River, British Columbia. These fish are born in freshwater and move to the ocean for their adulthood, until coming back to their original environments to reproduce. Though most young sockeye spend their early years growing up in lakes, a few populations start traveling to […]

This internship offers an incredible opportunity for a student to learn about, develop and increase their knowledge of the publishing industry while honing their writing and editing skills by creating compelling digital content to reach wider, deeper audiences of outdoor enthusiasts across Canada. This will be done through writing articles, including personal narratives, for our […]

The goal of this project is to create a sample system for managing laptops using specific software called Intune and Autopilot. This system should cover everything from the beginning of a laptop’s life to the end, and be created using Lean Sigma Six principles to make it as efficient as possible. The student working on […]

Reconstructing foodways can provide archaeologists insight into the relationship between past people and their lived environments. My project explores two innovative and complementary methods of biomolecular analysis – shotgun proteomics and lipid residue analysis – for the identification of foods eaten in the past. By identifying proteins and lipids from food cooked in Late Moche […]

The goal of this research is to re-envision fisheries management in Canada, using the Kitasoo Xai’xais Nation as a case study. This objective of this project is to weave together culturally appropriate components of Kitasoo Xai’xais and western fisheries management by using an Indigenous methodological approach that centers Indigenous voices. To do this, we will […]

Wetlands restored by Ducks Unlimited within the Central Interior of British Columbia are experiencing differences in the reproductive success of waterfowl. While some wetlands are facilitating the production of large broods of young, others are seeing low yields. During their breeding periods, waterfowl are dependent on food resources within wetlands to reproduce. Benthic macroinvertebrates (BMIs) […]

Any new tool must match the sensitivity and ease of the best homogenous liquid sampling techniques. It must execute automated slurry capture, phase separation, and sample delivery without perturbing solute-solid equilibria. Our in-line slurry manipulation utilizes EasySampler™ slurry probe, capturing solids and liquids. The sample is delivered via a weak solvent to an inline filter […]

Smart grid (SG) aims at modernizing the current power grid which can better manage the electricity through the grid and react to the system faults quicker. To realize this goal, many sensors are attached to different points of the power grid infrastructure. These sensors collect data and can be used for controlling, protecting, and monitoring […]