We need to understand whether estuarine marsh habitat recovers to the same condition quality as undisturbed areas after exclusion of intensive goose grazing. Recovery through natural processes takes longer than restoration assisted by transplanting, however understanding how much faster assisted restoration enables recovery helps inform cost-effective strategies. Non-profit organizations can benefit from academic support to […]

Climate change has complicated the fight for affordable and secure housing in British Columbia. The 2021 heat dome, for example, was responsible for the deaths of 595 people making it the deadliest weather event in Canadian history. Almost all of these deaths occurred at home or in a hotel and disproportionately impacted marginalized communities, many […]

This project aims to explore how women entrepreneurs perform their entrepreneurial functions within business incubators. Women entrepreneurs are known to suffer from impoverished social networks that precludes them from performing their entrepreneurial functions like opportunity recognition, resource mobilization and innovation. Policy makers seek to support and enable women entrepreneurs in various ways. Incubation is one […]

OneCup uses Computer Vision to uniquely identify livestock and wildlife from almost any angle, effectively Face ID for animals, called 360 Live ID. We then track health, growth, activity, nutrition, and phenotypes with the ID. It is a revolutionary idea that will disrupt the agricultural industry. We call our AI for cattle BETSY, or Bovine […]

This research addresses the ethical issues that abound in professional design practice. If these issues are identified, they are seldom discussed and mitigated. As such, this research aims to 1) observe human-centered design in action, 2) develop a series of tools, artifacts, and methods—what I refer to as ethical design things—to foreground matters of ethics […]

Estuaries are crucial stopover areas for juvenile salmon during outmigration and especially for Chinook salmon who can reside in this habitat for over a month. Many populations of Chinook salmon from the Pacific Northwest are threatened and endangered making conservation important for this species. Currently, managers are investing significant public funds in estuary restoration and […]

We are at the era of precision medicine and dentistry; however, currently the leading-edge technologies used for adaptive milling control and modeling of CNC milling have not entered the micro-scale milling applications in the dental industry. The overall objective of this MITACS project is to utilize an Industry 4.0 based approach to explore characterization parameters […]

It has become clear during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic that the standard opaque medical masks pose a challenge for effective communication in healthcare settings, especially for deaf and hard of hearing people and other individuals who rely on visual cues or lip/speech reading. To address this challenge, this research project aims to develop a transparent single-use […]

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is a new and transformative technology capable of transporting people and goods in an environmentally friendly way. Given its large geographical area, combination of urban and natural landscapes, and challenging topography, Vancouver is in a strong position to become a leader in adopting AAM technologies. This project will assess Vancouver’s existing […]

This Mitacs project aims to exploit synergies of particle accelerator experiments at GSI (Germany) and TRIUMF (Canada) with the mutual motivation to further our understanding of the synthesis of the elements in stars. To get insights into how the large-scale nuclear conversions occurring in, e.g., supernova events are responsible for the element generation in detail, […]

The Government of Canada considers lithium as a critical element because it is a major component of rechargeable batteries in, for example, electric vehicles, but it is also used in lubricants, ceramics, and glasses Kavanagh et al. 2018). The intern will study this using data and samples supplied by the partner organization, by doing geological […]

A Venture Capital Internship focused on investment deals in Asia-based startups.