The availability of vegetative forage material is a crucial factor in determining the quality of habitat for waterfowl. During their migratory staging, waterfowl rely on consuming seeds and tubers of specific wetland plants to build their energy reserves. Phragmites australis, an invasive species, provides very little forage value, and is known to degrade wetland habitat […]

The proposed project intends to generate a method for identifying weeds and develop site-specific weed control prescriptions for sugarcane cultivations in Costa Rica using Remote Sensing techniques. Remotely sensed data will be captured using multispectral camera and LiDAR sensors attached to Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS). Images will be processed using machine learning algorithms to […]

Sugarcane is native to the warm temperate, tropical regions of the world and is highly weather dependent. Recent climate change has hampered its growth, resulting in reduced yields, forcing farmer to adapt different practices in Costa Rica. There are four main phenological and development stages in Sugarcane. This project is focused on the maturation process […]

The proposed research project focuses on improving winter wheat production in Northwestern Ontario, a region with a short growing season and unpredictable climate. Farmers must select optimal planting dates for winter wheat for maximum production and it is challenging due to the number of growing days and planting depth before winter. Hence, the project aims […]

This project aims to monitor the movement of the Nevados glacier, a small mountain glacier resting above an old volcano from the central-south of Chile, using satellite radar interferometry (INSAR) to obtain velocity values for the glacier surface over the last decade. This data will be compared to a previous study on crevasse patterns to […]

The trees surrounding the source drinking water lakes in Cape Breton Regional Municipality influence the pH and electrical conductivity of throughfall water in preliminary studies, particularly conifers like black spruce. The Kelly Lake Watershed that provides drinking water to the community of Louisbourg suffers from an acidity pulse each spring, potentially influenced by overland flow […]

American beech is a tree species that is distributed from the southeast of the United States up to the southeast of Canada. It has significant ecological and economic importance in Canada, especially in southern and central Ontario and Quebec. The beech population is suffering from beech bark disease, which kills most of the mature individuals, […]

My project is a comparative history of water development in Chile and British Columbia during the twentieth century. It explores how different societies conceptualized and responded to climatic uncertainty by comparing how Chilean and Canadian engineers involved in water infrastructure projects – namely, hydroelectric and irrigation development schemes – anticipated and dealt with extreme floods […]

Printed electronics is a field of electronics that involves printing of electronic devices and components on a variety of substrates, including paper, plastic, and textiles. This technology uses printing techniques including inkjet printing, screen printing and gravure printing to create circuits, sensors, displays and other electronic devices. Advantages of printed electronics include low-cost production, design […]

Jake is going to join the projects using a large-scale boundary layer wind tunnel, a thermally stratified wind tunnel, a climate chamber, and wind tunnel projects conducted at various companies if possible. Lastly, based on the understanding of wind tunnel technologies, he is going to conduct research on the evaluation of wind loading on tall […]

Floods have been considered the most common and leading cause of natural disasters worldwide. In Vietnam as well as in Canada, more frequent and severe floods have been documented to growing number of negative health outcomes. Alongside concurrent mitigation efforts, developing accurate methods to identify the health impacts of flooding to adapt will be crucial. […]

Le pin sylvestre (Pinus sylvestris) fait partie des espèces les plus dominantes de la forêt méditerranéenne et il est connu pour sa croissance rapide et sa capacité d’adaptation à divers sites écologiques. Dans cette étude, plusieurs méthodes seront utilisées (densitomètre à rayon X et la spectroscopie proche infrarouge (NIRS)) pour déterminer les propriétés physiques (densité) […]