Forest Bean Inc. is a Canadian Coffee Startup Company with the overarching goal of preserving the environment while growing coffee and the ever-fragile ecosystems surrounding it. The company has emphasized the preservation of biodiversity to demonstrate that they can maintain a thriving ecosystem on their coffee farm while providing high-quality artisan coffee beans. The project […]

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 […]

Water infrastructure and supply service in Canadian small, remote Indigenous (SRI) communities are facing various challenges, including long-term water quality advisories. A water infrastructure risk assessment system is much needed to help identify critical nodes that are prone to cause failure in the entire water supply service chain, ranging from pre-project planning to water service […]

Destination Vancouver (DVAN) is seeking to investigate meetings and conventions impacts and understand their changes given the pandemic-induced increase of hybrid and online meetings. DVAN has sought the technical expertise of academic supervisors at Capilano University’s Centre for Tourism Research and Extension Services’ (CTRES) in understanding these impacts, especially for repeat and one-time international conferences […]

This research is designed to advance understandings and monitoring of the recreational and Indigenous food salmon harvests and their management within the Central Coast of BC. Further, this collaborative research project is being led by the Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance and four partnering First Nations (Heiltsuk, Kitasoo/Xai’xais, Nuxalk and Wuikinuxv Nation) to develop a […]

Kelps are large brown algae that can form complex marine “forests”. Many marine species, including salmon, use these kelp forests as habitat. However, kelps in the Salish Sea have been declining in recent years. This has likely been driven, at least in part, by ocean warming. If we are to predict how kelp losses might […]

The broad line region (BLR) dynamics of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is crucial to measure the mass of supermassive black holes (SMBH) in the distant Universe. Assuming that the BLR is virialized, the reverberation mapping (RM) technique has been used for decades to resolve the size of the BLR based on the time lag of […]

Human land use is leading to the decline of many species, such as Canada’s Threatened boreal woodland caribou. Habitat alteration as a result of human land use has degraded predator-prey dynamics, leading to unsustainable predation of caribou. Given the link between caribou declines and habitat alteration, habitat management –protection and restoration – is a critical […]

Underwater video cameras are a convenient method to monitor aquatic life such as fish. However, these cameras can collect a lot of footage, which can be challenging for humans to process. This project will use computer vision to automatically sort through video taken within and near to seaweed farms to specify the clips that have […]

Growing complexity of social needs, aligned with pressures for efficient and effective public services, has been met with calls for inter-professional, integrated approaches to societal problems (Henderson et al., 2020; Careau et al., 2018). Recent evidence has confirmed a positive relationship between shared mental models, and team/organizational performance (Evans & Baker, 2012). The purpose of […]

There are over 225,000 new cancer cases in Canada every year. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is the primary imaging modality for a range of cancer types. Various studies have established that determining size/volume, shape, and texture features of tumors from PET/CT images can help identify patients at high-risk of cancer relapse, or for whom […]

Spray painting in the automotive manufacturing industry is a tough technical challenge. Due to a poor paint job, approximately 25% of cars coming off the assembly line must be reworked or scrapped. Previous research has shown that the droplet size distribution of the paint applied to the vehicle is important for the final coating finish […]