With the onset of climate change, sea level rise is a major global concern including distinct local issues. This project looks at the extremely venerable coastal city/port city of Vancouver. Recent reports call for major infrastructure improvements primarily focused on engineering and not on spatial and design approaches to this challenge. Currently there is no […]

The physicochemical character of the hydrological regime that formed Carlin-type Au-deposits (CTGDs) are poorly understood and represents a critical knowledge gap relating to their genesis. We are undertaking an integrated geological and geochemical study of the Nadaleen trend of CTGDs in the Yukon to better define the hydrological regime that controlled their formation. The proposed […]

Traditional oil sands production techniques include mining and transporting the sands and in situ production using steam injection, Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD). This proposed method will replace or enhance SAGD by using primarily traditional vertical well bores and an induction heating method which will potentially allow the heating effect to expand in diameter as […]

Battery electric busses (BEBs) are a promising emerging technology to replace the diesel buses currently the mainstay of public road transportation. Diesel buses contributed significantly to both climate-change related emissions, as well as local air quality issues. This project is examining a number of key issues associated with BEB adoption, in the context of a […]

This goal of this research project is to understand how wood fibre characteristics within planted and natural stands of spruce behave with changes to temperature and precipitation. Several methods of wood analysis will be used to determine this relationship including dendrochronology, scientifically dating tree-rings and comparing to climate, and analysis of fibre qualities, or cellular […]

OMiCS represents a broad research initiative exploring the relationship between physical literacy (PL) in children and markers of biological health. The research seeks to expand on the literature surrounding the components of PL: physical competence, confidence, and motivation for being active, and determine whether any of these components can shift objective biomarkers of health (the […]

The alignment of the dissertation and the CE in terms of preparing students as researchers in today’s environment or for innovative work outside the academy is in question. The purposes and structures of these basic PhD components have not changed significantly since the origin of the modern PhD, which was developed primarily as a vocational […]

Onsite Domestic Wastewater Treatment and Reuse is emerging as a potential solution to the water shortages, eroding distribution infrastructure, and energy intensive treatment processes that are a fixture of the modern city. However, existing onsite treatment technologies fail to compactly treat water to a high enough quality for urban reuse without increasing per capita treatment […]

Construction SMEs significantly contribute to Canada’s economy. Therefore high productivity within the SMEs is highly beneficial for the development of the country. Building constructions and renovations are everyday occurrences which involve the constant need to improve and readapt business practices to market forces and trends of globalization. Consumers and business owners face problems during each […]

Goldcorp recently announced a new initiative referred to as H2zero with the goal of reducing water usage in their mining operations by 80 to 100%. Mineral processing and specifically comminution and mineral separation are the main consumers of water. This research focuses on dry comminution technologies and represents a first step towards advancing dry comminution […]

EquitySoft Investments is a private wealth management firm in Vancouver BC specialized in machine-learning trading algorithms. Our Mitacs internship’s objective is to determine which machine learning system works best under certain financial conditions using our proprietary trading algorithms. EquitySoft benefits from this research by being able to leverage expertise on applied machine learning to AI-based […]

Robots are increasingly seeing use in manufacturing. However, current robot technology is not sufficient to perform all tasks. Researchers have proposed using human-robot collaborations to exploit robots’ ability to do repetitive and boring jobs and the ability of human workers to perform fine-motor skills in unstructured environments. In the proposed research, we consider algorithms to […]