Coho Salmon use their ear bones, called otoliths, for hearing and balance. Sometimes, these ear bones can develop a deformity called vaterite, which results in severe hearing impairment. This deformity is significantly more common in salmon raised in hatcheries than those in the wild. Our project aims to determine what causes vateritic otoliths to form […]

Recent findings expose the concerning sensitivity of hydrologic and geomorphic function to clearcut logging. Water quality, fish habitat, downstream infrastructure, and human lives are all suffering due to clearcut practices and climate change. This study will explore for the first time the differences between the effect of clearcut logging and more ecosystem friendly logging practices […]

Precision medicine, where treatment is tailored to the individual patient, offers much potential to improve outcomes for children with cancer. However, selecting the right drug for each child remains challenging and new approaches to identify the most effective therapy are needed. In this project, interns will work directly with staff at BC Children’s Hospital (BCCH) […]

Highway infrastructure across Canada is a key national asset that is critical to the mobility and economic prosperity of Canadians. Unfortunately, maintaining highway infrastructure is is a costly and resource draining endeavour. Provincial transportation agencies dedicate billions of dollars to the process on an annual basis. In current practice inspecting the conditions of highway infrastructure […]

Electric Vehicles (EVs), which have zero tailpipe emissions, are an innovative and proven alternative transportation solution for regions with a low-emission electricity grid mix. However, most studies to date are motivated by increasing market penetration of private EVs, and they generally focus on the distribution of charging points across the transportation network. Battery-electric buses (e-buses) […]

The “Forest Management Hydrological Modeling Tool” ARD project will create a scientifically-sound, web-hosted hydrological modelling application for inter-provincial use in Alberta and BC by GIS foresters, forestry consultants & planners to investigate the cumulative effects of proposed forest development and climate change on hydrological indicators of concern in a watershed. Selkirk College will partner with […]

The proposed research is aimed at both understanding and improving the flotation equipment design through the development and application of comprehensive multiphysics platform, which has the potential to create more accurate, fundamental basis for modeling, optimization, and scale-up of industrial flotation processes, based on physics rather than empirics and intuition. The objective of this research […]

Avalanche Canada and Park Canada publish avalanche bulletins daily to provide backcountry users with information on avalanche hazard. Since 2010, Canadian bulletins follow the recently developed conceptual model of avalanche hazard (CMAH), which describes the key components of avalanche hazard and how to combine them into an overall assessment. However, the CMAH does not provide […]

This research project will work with Canadian start-up 6Sensmatic in two areas: building a digital marketing platform and exploring strategic opportunities related to the blockchain; a digital ledger technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. First, the intern will help 6Sensmatic design, develop, prototype and analyze a novel digital marketing platform that will connect firms […]

The Pacific Salmon Foundation is leading a multi-year project: Salish Sea Marine Survival Program (SSMSP) to determine what is affecting the survival of juvenile salmon and steelhead in the Salish Sea. There are three hypotheses to investigate. The impact of availability of food for the fish, the predation on the fish and other factors including […]

The aim of this project is to develop a novel catalyst system for treatment of organic and nitrogen containing pollutants in wastewater generated by various industrial sectors. Development of such system is necessary as the discharge regulations are becoming increasingly restricted. The research focuses on electrode design and fabrication that treat toxic wastewater, with an […]

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an inflammatory disorder of the lung, and one that affects 2.6 million Canadians and 380 million people worldwide. The current therapies are very imprecise and none modifies disease progression or mortality. There is a pressing need to discover novel targets to enable precision health, promote new therapeutic discoveries, and […]