Biotic communities in restoring salt marshes

Salt marshes are important coastal ecosystems that provide many services. Due to their high soil fertility, they have a long history of being converted to farmland. There is now growing interest in restoring salt marshes to protect against coastal erosion, mitigate sea level rise, and provide increased habitat for fish, birds, etc. Ducks Unlimited Canada […]

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Sensory Friendly Solutions Go to Market 2022

Sensory Friendly Solutions, a B Corp Certified, for-profit social enterprise is undertaking a project to improve accessibility and inclusion by establishing the pathways to deliver products and services to businesses and organizations that make them more sensory-friendly for their customers and their employees.

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Web Developer

Prima Technologies is a startup in New Brunswick, Canada that is working on improving certain processes in nursing homes, replacing traditional paper processes with new digital ones. The main challenges and opportunities are in software development. Nurses provide a lot of care in a day and building a tool for them that relieves their workload […]

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Establishing river by river, ecologically meaningful temperature triggers for behavioural thermoregulation in juvenile Atlantic salmon

It is well understood that Atlantic salmon will seek thermal refuge once certain temperature thresholds are exceeded, and these thresholds differ with age – this behaviour is termed ‘thermoregulation’. However, the temperatures that induces behavioural thermoregulation are not homogeneous across the range of Atlantic salmon. As our understanding of these processes has grown, it is […]

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Extending Assessments of Cognitive Decline into Virtual Reality

Early detection of dementia among seniors has been an ongoing struggle, leading to underdiagnosis, late diagnosis, and delayed intervention. Using virtual reality powered hardware and proprietary motion tracking software provided by Innerva Virtual Inc., this project intends to create a dual-task assessment to measure mild cognitive impairment (MCI) among older adults, a leading symptom of […]

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Effect of Wax Inhibitors on the Flow behavior of the Caledonia Field Paraffinic Oil in Consolidated Porous Media at Reservoir and Production Conditions

The proposed research activi~ies aim the chemical and physical characterization of the wax contained in the Caledonia crude oil for the establishment of customized wax remediation alternatives. It also proposes the evaluation of the effectiveness of the optimum remediation treatments through the establishment of the flow performance of the original oil and treated oil in […]

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The Development of a Mobile Mapping Tool for Archaeologists

The interns will support the development and testing of an archaeological field notes tool called STRATUM. This tool will allow all notes and documentation, usually collected in note books or various handheld devices, to be collected on one digital device like a tablet or phone. The tool development will be guided by the results of […]

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User Experience Requirements and Design for Collaborative Dance Choreography in Augmented Reality

Augmented reality technology promises seamless and effective remote collaboration for 3D tasks. The performing arts, especially dance, is heavily reliant on precise and creative collaboration in 3D space, but the specific task needs, interface designs, and user experience requirements of collaborative work in dance for augmented reality is unknown. In particular, more than other commonly […]

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Work improvement for the manual heavy structural workstations by using dynamic value stream mapping

The goal of the proposed research project is to improve the work productivity for the partner company (Ocean Steel) by identifying bottlenecks accurately in the steel fabrication workstations. This work included evaluating the current applied solutions in order to resolve the same problems encountered with Ocean Steel, which was done by conducting a literature review. […]

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