Ocean industries in Canada contributes about $31.7 billion a year to the economy and make up 1.6 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. Canada has tremendous opportunity to build on the outcomes achieved to date, harness our collective national strengths and resources. Canada’s ocean industries sector can help drive our economic recovery. It will […]

Mycorrhizal fungi provide many benefits to plant health. However, their biodiversity is poorly-studied for Garry oak (Quercus garryana). Garry oak ecosystems are threatened in BC and these fungi could play a critical role in tree growth and survival, particularly with habitat loss and climate change providing additional stressors for this species. The proposed study will […]

Ontology induction from unstructured text is a long standing goal of Natural Language Processing (NLP). An ontology can serve a number of tasks, such as question answering, Information Retrieval to name a few. In fact, practice communities are often relying on an ontology in their daily decision making process. This is the case of IATA, […]

The From Hammers to Homes project seeks to engage one masters student intern for two semesters to work with the partners in order to design a new database and conduct a new annual survey to report on improving the quality and transparency of information on the residential development environment in regional Vancouver’s municipalities. The interns […]

Les proches de personnes ayant un trouble de santé mentale peuvent obtenir du soutien dans les associations de leur communauté. À ce jour, le milieu communautaire n’a pas défini quelles sont les meilleures pratiques spécifiques à leur mandat qui est d’offrir du soutien psychosocial communautaire aux proches en santé mentale et ce, en fonction des […]

Groupe Domax est une entreprise spécialisée dans l’intégration et l’opération de lave-autos mécanisés en Amérique du Nord. Groupe Domax prévoit se positionner comme le nouveau leader mondial en ce qui a trait au lavage automatisé et écologique, et ainsi se démarquer favorablement dans un marché de 19,6 milliards de dollars seulement en Amérique du Nord. […]

The Mitacs project will build on the findings of a 2019 study and explore the experiences of newcomer families—specifically those in the cultural minority—with children 0-5 years old in community-based early learning and child care (ELCC) in Edmonton. The study will look at the lived experiences of these families as they access and receive ELCC […]

This project will develop and optimize high throughput, rapid screening analytical methods for twoclasses of aquatic toxins that threaten salmonid populations on Vancouver Island. These include UV filter sunscreen products associated with recreational activities and tire preservative compounds associated with roadway run-off. Working with project partners, community groups, and First Nations communities on Vancouver Island, […]

Combined water management system including integrated composting toilets, greywater diversion with biological filtration, and rainwater harvesting for irrigation. Avoids the use of traditional septic fields or tanks in an effort to create a safe, decentralized, low maintenance, and repeatable holistic water and waste management system that does not contribute to soil nutrient depletion, erosion, or […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges Canadian manufacturers face in managing increasingly complex, multi-tiered global supply chains, including a wide rang of sustainability issues ranging from forced labor to carbon emission management. Industry 4.0 technologies – including the internet of things (IoT), blockchain, and machine learning – can potentially address these issues via enhanced […]

This research project will assess, and compare cybersecurity frameworks currently in place for critical infrastructure protection in Internet of things (IoT), Operational Technology (OT) and 5G to determine what the recommended policies are for critical infrastructure protection today for IoT, OT and 5G, and if there is already a currently used framework that supports all […]

Au cours des dernières années, les modes de consommation individuelle se sont radicalement transformés. D’une part, la proportion des cyberacheteurs a cru très rapidement, et d’autre part, les processus et trajectoires d’achats ont tendu à s’hybrider davantage : c’est-à-dire à se dérouler à la fois en ligne et en boutique physique. Pour autant, nombre de […]