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Adapting the Cool Farm Tool for Achieving Net-Zero Emissions in Nova Scotia’s Agriculture

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Faculty Supervisor:

Suresh Neethirajan

Student:

Partner:

Net Zero Atlantic

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Barley research benefit project

The Canadian Barley Research Coalition (CBRC) is a national not-for-profit organization that funds long-term research projects in the barley sector. The CBRC was awarded $10.2 million to direct towards barley research between 2018 and 2023. This research project will examine the benefits of this research funding to the barley sector in Canada. The project will be completed by an MSc student, who will use the research as the basis for their MSc thesis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter Slade

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Barley Research Coalition

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Développement d’outils d’analyse de faisabilité de portefeuilles d’évènements dans un centre de congrès

Le Palais des Congrès de Montréal est une institution publique à vocation commerciale qui génère d’importantes retombées économiques pour le Québec. Un défi majeur pour cette institution est la planification annuelle de plus de 350 événements de nature et d’envergure variées, tout en respectant diverses contraintes opérationnelles et commerciales pour atteindre les objectifs fixés par le ministère du Tourisme. Pour relever ce défi, nous proposons d’analyser et d’améliorer le processus de suivi des temps d’opérations lors de la mise en place des événements, ainsi que de proposer un outil capable d’assigner des salles aux événements en fonction des contraintes propres au Palais des Congrès. Ce projet de recherche s’appuiera sur les travaux antérieurs portant sur la gestion de portefeuilles d’événements pour les centres de congrès, ainsi que sur les modèles de planification et d’assignation de ressources pour les portefeuilles de projets. De plus, cette recherche valorisera les données historiques du Palais des Congrès de Montréal afin d’analyser les variables influençant la faisabilité d’un portefeuille d’événements.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Pellerin

Student:

Partner:

Palais des congrès de Montréal

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Public administration

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Fraud Detection in Financial Graphs

A significant amount of fraudulent activity tends to go unreported in reality, one of the major focuses for our team recently has been to develop robust GNNs that can perform anomaly detection on noisily labeled graphs. Noisily labeled anomalous data can reduce the model performance as it learns incorrect patterns during training, cause the model to overfit the noise in the labels as opposed to the underlying true anomalies, and can harm the message-passing mechanism of the GNNs.
Having a GNN based model that is robust to noisy labels can provide us with a significant uplift over the current production models. In research, there is limited work already done in this domain using GNNs. However, applying these methods to Mastercard’s data in a way that transfers well is a challenging task due to:
a) Heavy Class Imbalance b) Inductive – Model should perform well for out-of-distribution test set c) Scalability – the model should learn from over one billion noisily
labeled data d) Nature of Graph – Transaction graph is significantly different from other open source graphs used in existing research

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Faculty Supervisor:

Euijin Choo

Student:

Partner:

Mastercard

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Greenhouse gas emissions and Sustained Flux Global Warming/Cooling Potential of two constructed wetlands from south-central Ontario

Constructed wetlands are multifunctional natural-like systems created for wastewater treatment, biomass production, water storage, flood retention, and wildlife habitat. Constructed wetlands where water-loving plants grow can also absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thus potentially contribute to offsetting greenhouse gas emissions produced by human activities. However, like all wetlands, constructed wetlands also produce greenhouse gases themselves, such as methane and nitrous oxide, two powerful gases that contribute to global warming. In this project, we partnered with Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority, an organisation working with local communities to protect and restore the Lake Simcoe watershed by leading research, policy, and action since 1951, to determine if constructed wetlands in their jurisdiction can offer climate benefits, that is, if they can remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than the equivalent they emit as greenhouse gases. Through this project we aim to provide our partner with management recommendation for constructed wetlands that maximizes their climate benefits while, at the same time, provide various co-benefits, such as wildlife habitat and landscape beautification. In addition, we will train a Masters student to be an expert in this field.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Florin Pendea

Student:

Partner:

Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Lakehead University

Program:

Accelerate

ACT- Action on Climate Team & Saanich Peninsula Environmental Coalition (SPEC) Check-Up Project

The Saanich Peninsula Environmental Coalition (SPEC) and the ACT – Action on Climate Team, SFU are working together to implement a bioregional approach to conservation and sustainability on the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island, BC. SPEC developed a Bioregional Framework in 2021 which outlined a holistic approach to environmental health and management and advocated for its adoption amongst the three municipalities on the Peninsula: Central Saanich, Sidney and North Saanich. The goal of this research is to assess and evaluate the advancements made to date to implement the principles of the Bioregional Framework across these three municipalities. Progress will be measured using performance indicators and outcomes for watershed health and resilience. The goal is to gain a better understanding of the opportunities and barriers to collaborating across municipal governments to advance conservation and sustainability throughout a watershed or bioregion.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alison Shaw

Student:

Partner:

Friends of Shoal Harbour

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a Timing-Enhanced AXI Protocol Tracing Solution for FPGA

The proposed project aims to enhance Ciena’s existing AXI protocol tracing solution for FPGAs by adding a timing feature through synchronized counters. This improvement will allow for more accurate data flow tracking and performance within FPGA systems. By integrating this timing capability, the enhanced module will provide Ciena with better diagnostics and debugging tools, leading to more efficient and reliable product development. This project helps the intern gain valuable experience and offers a significant technical upgrade for Ciena’s FPGA-based solutions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tarek Ould-Bachir

Student:

Partner:

Ciena Corporation (St-Laurent, QC);Ciena Corporation (Ottawa, ON)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Anti-Racist Cities: Community-focused Housing in Ottawa

This research champions anti-racist thinking around housing in the city of Ottawa. This project considers the possibility of antiracist cities by examining how racial inequities are produced through housing, how displacement occurs in the city of Ottawa, and how grassroots advocacy for secure, affordable housing may facilitate spatial and racial justice. This research will contribute to an understanding of how racism is experienced through urban space, and how affordable, decommodified housing development can be a crucial step in the building of anti-racist cities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Menna Agha

Student:

Partner:

CP Planning

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Nearshore Zooplankton Communities in the Strait of Georgia: Implications for Ecosystem Health

Although zooplankton monitoring is crucial for informed conservation, data on nearshore zooplankton ecology, despite its importance for forage fish, is lacking. This study will use ZooScan image analysis to process samples collected by the Pacific Salmon Foundation Citizen Science Oceanography program in Malaspina Strait (2015 – ongoing) and assess the seasonal dynamics of the nearshore zooplankton assemblages and their relationship to oceanographic properties. One site will then be selected for analysis of interannual variability. Finally, this project will investigate spatial differences in nearshore zooplankton assemblages, and their relationship to environmental conditions including indices of human disturbance. This study will provide new insights into nearshore zooplankton assemblage dynamics and inform drivers of prey fields for juvenile salmon and forage fish. The development of semi-automated imaging technology for use in BC will also provide accessible tools for other organizations who wish to conduct zooplankton monitoring but do not have the knowledge or capacity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brian Hunt

Student:

Partner:

Pacific Salmon Foundation

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Bilan de carbone dans les marais du barachois de Malbaie, Gaspésie

Les écosystèmes côtiers rendent des services écosystémiques importants dont la séquestration du carbone pour la lutte contre les changements climatiques. Dans le contexte de l’élévation du niveau marin, ces écosystèmes sont vulnérabilisés à la suite d’importantes pertes de superficies avec le recul des côtes. Le littoral de la côte du Golfe du Saint-Laurent vers la baie des Chaleurs est caractérisé par un ensemble de barachois à l’embouchure de plusieurs rivières qui protègent – encore à ce jour – les marais littoraux contre l’érosion côtière. Ces marais ont donc une grande valeur écologique qu’il importe de protéger. Le barachois de Malbaie qui est en partie la propriété de Conservation de la Nature – Québec fera l’objet d’un bilan net de carbone au cours de deux saisons de croissance (2024-2025) afin d’évaluer la capacité de cet écosystème à capter le carbone de l’atmosphère et à l’entreposer parmi les sédiments.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michelle Garneau

Student:

Partner:

La Société canadienne pour la conservation de la nature

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Improving the monitoring of submerged aquatic vegetation in optically complex fluvial ecosystems using optical satellite remote sensing

??Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) are important in aquatic ecosystems as they represent hotspots of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Earth observation technologies (EOT) constitute a cost-effective monitoring tool for environmental variables at large scales but their use in freshwater environmental monitoring remains limited because of the optical complexity of inland waters. This research develops and builds upon an innovative open-source machine learning and geographic object-based image analysis approach to characterize and map SAV. Associated field work performed near the Port of Montreal’s expansion site at Contrecoeur allows for research into how construction disturbances impact nutrients at the landscape level within the project and supports future SAV-related EOT developments. This research benefits the partner organization, Hatfield Consultants, in its work to develop EOT to support environmental variable monitoring in fluvial systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrea Bertolo

Student:

Partner:

Hatfield Consultants

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Elevate

Établissement d’une culture d’excellence : mise en place d’une intervention au sein des entraîneurs d’athlètes en développement du Québec

Science du Sport Canada reconnaît l’importante influence des entraîneurs dans la création d’une culture d’excellence, centrée sur la performance et le bien-être des athlètes. Toutefois, la plupart des interventions se concentrent sur les contextes de haute performance, laissant les athlètes en développement insuffisamment étudiés. Cette étude documentera une intervention visant à instaurer une culture valorisant la santé mentale parmi les entraîneurs d’athlètes en développement et évaluera ses effets selon les perceptions des entraîneurs, des athlètes et de l’équipe de soutien intégré (ÉSI). Des entraîneurs participeront à quatre ateliers sur des sujets tels que la sécurité psychologique. Les impacts seront évalués par des sondages et des groupes de discussion impliquant les entraîneurs, les athlètes et l’ÉSI. Ce projet contribuera à comprendre la relation entre culture, performance et santé mentale et mènera à l’élaboration d’un plan d’action pour les athlètes en développement, favorisant ainsi un environnement optimal pour les futurs athlètes nationaux au Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Véronique Boudreault;Sophie Brassard

Student:

Partner:

Ski de fond Québec;Athlétisme Québec

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

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