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Large-deformation finite element modeling of seabed sediments for offshore oil and gas development

Large amounts of crude oil and natural gas are located deep beneath Canada’s ocean floors. Currently, the offshore oil and gas industry makes a significant contribution to Canadian economy. Proper geotechnical modeling of seabed sediment is very important for safe, economic and reliable development and operation of offshore systems. The proposed research will advance the technologies required in the design of offshore foundations and anchors, subsea pipelines and risers. It will also develop a finite element modeling technique for analysis of submarine landslides, which is considered as one of the major geohazard in offshore development. Four inters at Memorial University will receive training on offshore oil and gas developments through this research program. The partner organization (C-CORE) provides advanced engineering solutions to various sectors including offshore oil and gas production and transportation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bipul Hawlader

Student:

Partner:

C-CORE;INTECSEA;Petroleum Research Newfoundland & Labrador

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Risks of Coastal Shipping

This project will undertake research on priorities and concerns that arise within Indigenous and Coastal Communities across Canada. Shipping provides benefits to many remove communities in delivering critical supplies, but the increase in shipping due to growth in activities such as tourism, mining and other industries presents a risk to the environment, livelihoods and food sources. The project aims at enhancing general understanding of the relationship between shipping and Indigenous coastal communities, to better inform decision makers, rights holders and stakeholders. The project outcomes are expected to build on existing knowledge on the issues and risks, to help better understand and communicate on what is important to the coastal communities. This in turn will help to inform industry improvements and best practices, regulatory changes, marine spatial planning and area response planning, and overall risk mitigation strategies. The project anticipates a range of deliverables for the various audiences.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Markwick;Sarah Hunt

Student:

Partner:

Clear Seas

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Transportation (excluding aerospace); Ocean Tech; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

Capilano University; University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Investigating Trace Element Distribution in Cortical Bone Microstructures of Human Children for Information about Diet and Social Status

In archaeology, chemical analysis of elements in bones can unlock a wealth of anthropological information. Individuals are exposed to various elements throughout their lives, (from sources including food, drinking water, and cookware), which are stored in bone tissue. Because bone tissue regenerates continuously, skeletal remains contain a record of an individual’s lifetime of exposure to elements. Measuring their distribution within bones, and determining if they appear in newer or older bone tissue, can offer insight into major life events. Several elements are known to be connected to diet and social status, and reveal information about the lives of individuals that might otherwise be inaccessible. The proposed work will focus on elemental distribution in the skeletal remains of children; it will develop methods of analysis specific to children, and investigate the differences in element storage and distribution between children and adults. As existing methods were developed for the bones of adults, this work will provide a deeper understanding of the lives of children, and the context in which they lived.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Diane Beauchemin

Student:

Partner:

University of Southern Denmark

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Cow Geographies: Ecologies of Power across the World

Domesticated over 12,000 years ago, cows are currently found in every country across the globe yet very little is known about their varied histories, geographies, and lives. This despite cows’ centrality to human pursuits of agriculture, colonization, and capitalism as well as their implication in climate change. Furthermore,even as social research on cows begins to emerge in Canada, the United States, Botswana, South Africa, and China there is little opportunity to understand how these different cow geographies and stories are connected and/or produce varied types of realities and knowledge. Part of the reason for this is a lack of soft infrastructure for scholars to connect with each other across institutional and disciplinary boundaries. Consequently, our project, aims to establish a network for researchers who have an interest in broader ‘bovine scholarship’ and more specific ‘cow scholarship’ so as to share, learn, and engage in knowledge creation with one another.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laura Cameron

Student:

Partner:

Uppsala University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Agriculture and Food; Biotechnology

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

techNL Commerce Student

Digital Media and Content Creation will be the basis of this project. Creating digital media to help techNL grow and improve as a company and be more active in the digital world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shirley Noseworthy

Student:

Partner:

Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Technology and Innovation

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Zoonotic Officer

The position of Zoonotics Officer will help in managing the care of wildlife patients and ambassadors at the Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre and lead the Wildlife Haven Hospital team in zoonotic compliance and protocol development. I will be in charge of any Zoonotic diseases on site, and enforce protocols ensuring the safety of staff/volunteers and patients. I will work with management to ensure that high standards of animal care are adhered to, including Covid-19 protocols and other biosecurity precautions. I will contribute to the smooth operation of Wildlife Haven and adhere to the high standards of animal welfare and ethics as well as human safety from Covid-19 and other zoonotic disease risks.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrew Frederiksen

Student:

Partner:

Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Analytics of Energy Market Carbon Accounting – RES0054167

The proposed research will develop the underlying medium that can be further advanced into a real-time emission intensity assessment framework. The intern will be developing computational models based on electricity generation metered volumes and investigate how deep learning and data mining approaches can assist information extraction to enhance analytical capacities on sequence learning. Since ReWatt platform offers an information technology (IT) solution to measure climate impact and manage renewable generation investment, the emissions trading approach is very important to track and encourage the reduction of CO2 emissions in an efficient manner. The proposed project, helps the partner organization to to ensure validity of the data used to derive the attributes and to optimize the benefits their services bring to the individual customers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Petr Musilek

Student:

Partner:

ReWatt Power

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Utilities

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

FFUN Group Human Resources Internship

In these times with reduced staff count, FFUN Group needs “A Players.” They cannot continue to hire people to fill a hole, we need to be sure they have the right skill set and the right values for the company. I am going to re-evaluate and change how FFUN Group recruits and fills vacancies in order be successful in these new times. This process requires research into best practices and development/rolling out tools, and processes. Provide direction and a clear process to follow, and training for new and existing managers. I will help source high quality applicants that will help make the company as great as it can be, and avoid hiring those that are not a fit.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joe Schmidt

Student:

Partner:

FFUN Motor Group

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Retail trade

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Simple proxies for risk analysis and natural hazard estimation

This research is aimed at better characterizing the exposure associated with three particular natural hazards – earthquake, flood and wind. The work represents an unprecedented collaboration between three leaders in the field of natural hazards at Western University and the insurance industry through the efforts of individual interns and the associated projects aimed at evaluating risk and the resulting exposure from a practical and relatively simplified perspective. The Property and Casualty Insurance Compensation Corporation (ICLR), in cooperation with member insurers, will provide industrial support and training to three interns in the applied field of insurance risk assessment. The goal of the associated research program is to develop simple proxies for exposure based upon the most important factors associated with each hazard – earthquake, flood and wind. These proxies will be evaluated for various population densities, infrastructure properties and governmental policies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kristy Tiampo;Slobodan Simonovic;Gregory Kopp

Student:

Partner:

Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Gala Média

La chargée de projet marketing numérique, sous la direction du Vice-Président stratégie marketing et du Vice-Président développement stratégique, et en collaboration avec le reste de l’équipe, aura pour mission de soutenir les communications auprès d’un réseau de professionnels, principalement autour du média CScience IA, mais aussi pour la division « production » du groupe (GALA Prod) et notamment de « TiDoc’ ». Le tout afin d’accompagner les efforts de mise en marché de la compagnie Gala Média.
L’objectif central est de développer une communauté forte auprès des professionnels intéressés par l’intelligence artificielle. Le but est d’assurer la promotion et la notoriété du groupe et ainsi assurer la mise en marché de la compagnie.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sylvain Perron

Student:

Partner:

Gala Média

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Development of an integrated foundation for precision medicine for the Atlantic Region with a focus on Colorectal Cancer and Lung cancer

Atlantic Canada has the highest rate of CRC in Canada and NL has the highest incidence of familial CRC worldwide. This study is being undertaken primarily to reveal the underlying molecular mechanisms associated with the high rate of CRC in Atlantic Canada, particularly the well-documented familial CRC in NL. We expect to define novel genetic and epigenetic lesions in tumors that may help inform treatment for patients in the Atlantic region and elsewhere. Additionally, Atlantic Canada already has an established system of lung cancer molecular profiling but, the conventional approaches fail to capture additional molecular lesions that are emerging as having clinical implications, including global assessment of tumor mutation burden (TMB). We aim to achieve adequate tissue sampling for diagnosis and molecular profiling and implement advancements through specialized tools.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sherri Christian;Robin Urquhart;Sevtap Savas;Dan Gaston;Tom Belbin;Touati Benoukraf

Student:

Partner:

Atlantic Cancer Research Institute

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University; Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Handy Fairies Internship

The outcomes that I hope to achieve for Handy Fairies are that the business has a clear path for expansion both during my time with the company and after I have departed, hiring a committed cleaning staff that will want to achieve the goals Handy Fairies has set out to accomplish and create a marketing campaign that will entice new customers to provide ongoing revenues to Handy Fairies. These outcomes will be achieved by the contributions I will make to the company. Contributions will include outlining the strategic rollout of a sustainable expansion strategy, creating customer acquisition strategies, helping to potentially revise compensation structures of employees to create a greater degree of retention, determining the target market of employees that will need to be reached out to and generating marketing materials that will capture the attention of potential customers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yolande Chan

Student:

Partner:

Handy Fairies

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

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Mitacs is funded by the Government of Canada, the Government of Alberta, the Government of British Columbia, Research Manitoba, the Government of New Brunswick, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Government of Nova Scotia, the Government of Ontario, Innovation PEI, the Government of Quebec, the Government of Saskatchewan, and the Government of Yukon.