The Southern Ocean plays a key role in global climate over the glacial-interglacial cycle. Carbon is transported to the deep ocean via phytoplankton which sinks to the oceans depths. Here it is trapped until upwelled in the Southern Ocean and released to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. But we do not fully understand the oceanographic […]

The Moose Hide Campaign is seeking an MBA intern to support the research and development of an innovative outreach expansion. Moose Hide Campaign is a small grassroots organization with an extensive national reach and the organization is in need of the skills, experience and insight of an intern to help them understand opportunities and effective […]

Unlike in lossless compression, the decoder in a lossy compression system has flexibility in how to reconstruct the source. Conventionally, some measure of distortion such as mean squared error is used as a quality measure. Accordingly, lossy compression algorithms are analyzed through rate-distortion theory, wherein the objective is to minimize the amount of distortion for […]

Canada’s marine ecosystems are biologically rich and provide essential goods and services to about seven million people living along the longest coastline in the world. Facing significant challenges to conciliate economic development, human well-being, social equity and ecological stability, Canada developed an ambitious “Blue Economy” framework, in which this project falls. In the face of […]

The growing demand for mobility worldwide and the mass use of internal combustion engine drive systems poses major challenges for today’s society. Currently, the CO2 content in the atmosphere is continually increasing and the concentrations of pollutants in many areas exceed the maximum permissible limits in many urban centers. Additionally, these engine emissions contribute significantly […]

The project I will undertake at the University of Amsterdam is part of my joint doctorate with Université de Montréal. During the proposed period of project, I plan on: 1) interviewing subjects in the context of a reception study (i.e., a number of viewers of Netflix’s Criminal; the television content I selected as my thesis’s […]

Research has suggested that the future of learning, in some form, is online. However, Covid showed us – by putting more than a billion students into online classrooms – that the current balance between how teachers conventionally teach in a classroom is not fit-for-purpose in the virtual world. Not only is the online environment completely […]

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, maintaining high levels of student engagement was a difficult task for JA. March break 2020 heralded the most sudden of changes in the span of a few days, putting an end to traditional face-to-face tutoring and in-person events and activities, and heralding remote synchronous and asynchronous digital teaching and learning experiences. […]

McMaster University is collaborating with National Research Council Canada (NRC) under the AiP program of NRC, to develop smart textile technology that will integrate energy components into textile wearable products to provide daily and on-demand physical stimulus to the aged wearers. It aims to slow down or prevent the development of age-related health problems. The […]

SIA is enlisting the support of a Mitacs intern to develop a Social Innovation Consulting Group (SICG) – a new initiative within the SIA umbrella. SIA is looking to expand its programs to include longer-term consulting engagements in partnership with a post-secondary institution in Canada. While the Social Innovation Fellowship currently offers 8-week projects, there […]

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 […]

We do not have an effective Canadian Curriculum-Based Measurement Tool. Moreover, existing tools do not incorporate Artificial Intelligence. We aim to develop a tool that will enable the targeted and brief assessment of gaps in student literacy skills with the aim of allowing strategic instruction to be planned and delivered based on those gaps. Identifying […]