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) […]

The research project, guided by Professor Stephen Smith, focuses on addressing environmental challenges related to water pollution and debris detection in the water areas, with a specific emphasis on garbage and waste detection on the water surface. The project entails a systematic literature review and analysis of various computer vision models to detect and classify […]

The dissertation title is “Optimization of Interventions to Reduce Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) (Quebec City as a Case Study)”. For cities where combined sewer systems are designed to transport both wastewater and stormwater flows in a single pipes network, during wet weather conditions, the volume of runoff may exceed the system capacity which results in […]

The goal of this study is to determine the links between two critically important sedimentary basins that record major changes in the Earths atmosphere and surface environment around 2.5 billion years ago. These basins are now on different continents, the Hammersley basin in Australia, and the Griqualand West basin in South Africa, however when they […]

Trait-based mass-ratio and complementarity effects shape community structure, population dynamics, and ecosystem functioning. A question remains on how these processes interact in maintaining forest biomass along the elevation. Leaf element contents will be used to test these interactions since they are surrogates of ecosystem functioning. An extensive survey was conducted during 2017-2018 along a wide […]

Metal contamination in inland waters is of key concern for lake and human health. Unfortunately, our present understanding of metal contamination in lakes across the world is fragmented, as long-term monitoring programs are rare. The study of lake sediments offers an opportunity to address this gap, as sediments preserve a record of the environmental dynamics. […]

Nova Scotia Power Inc. (NSPI) is the main provider of electricity in Nova Scotia. The largest disruptor to its system is the weather, which can lead to widespread equipment failure and outages across the grid. NSPI attempts to predict these damages before they occur to decide on the appropriate level of response and allocation of […]

Arctic Sea-ice extent is declining due to climate change. Wildlife, maritime operations and northern communities that depend on sea-ice for traveling and hunting are negatively affected by its decline. Monitoring sea-ice thickness is an important tool to help in decision making in Arctic regions but, due to the snow covering the sea-ice, remote sensing’s sea-ice […]