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Determining how differences between avid and lapsed anglers can improve license sales and angler satisfaction

Regardless of the numerous fishing opportunities, and cultural and historical significance of fishing in British Columbia, the number of freshwater fishing licenses sold to residents has been declining. Many British Columbia anglers are lapsed, meaning that they do not purchase a license every year. A better understanding of these anglers, and the difference between them and avid anglers (who purchase licenses yearly) will help Freshwater Fisheries Society of British Columbia to make regular fishing more attractive and accessible to different types of anglers. This project will use an online survey to learn more about both angler groups, what motivates them to purchase a license and go fishing, what are their levels of fishing experience and commitment, and what barriers keep them from fishing. The survey will also include a special quantitative approach (choice experiment) to find out what are the anglers’ preferences for fishing sites (e.g. amenities, fish species, regulations).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sean Cox

Student:

Partner:

Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Environmental Science and Technology; Aquaculture and Fishing; Natural Resources

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Broadband energy harvesting from tree-like mechanical structures

Harvesting energy from renewable resources, such as wind and ocean waves, is an important issue facing our world today. With the increase in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, there is a need to move away from nonrenewable resources and to find new methods for capturing energy. Wind turbines operate most efficiently within a narrow band of wind speeds, outside of which the amount of electricity they produce plummets. To capture wind energy from random wind gusts over a broader band of wind speeds, flexible harvesters have been created that bend in the wind to convert wind energy into electrical energy. These can also be used to generate energy from ocean waves and currents. For this project, we will use simple, treelike mechanical structures to harvest energy in this way. We expect to increase the efficiency of these mechanical treelike harvesters by deriving a mathematical theory for the tree structure
dynamics as well as by performing simulations to optimize parameters of the tree such as branch stiffness and materials used. Also, we will look at the feasibility of using alternative methods to generate electricity within the tree structure.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vakhtang Putkaradze

Student:

Partner:

Kyoto University

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Analyzing and benchmarking a large-scale laboratory utilization data through network analysis and visualization techniques

Dr. Calivno Cheng Incorporated aims at developing higher health care quality and efficiency through the increase use of automation and better data visualization. Within Capital District Health Authority (CDHA) 3/5 of laboratory ordering originates in the outpatient setting. This is at approximately a cost of $3.3 million per month (CDHA quality assurance data). Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to interpret any laboratory ordering data without insights into the size, type, network, and practice patterns of both family practices and walk-in clinics. Using the laboratory information system data, the intern will extract, visualize, and benchmark existing laboratory test ordering landscape. This will allow the partners to understand the future demands on lab testing, development of new partnerships, methodology into data digestion, as well as allow policymakers more insight into the primary care landscape.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anatoliy Gruzd

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Performance Metrics and Reporting Requirements for Sustainable Supply Chain Management

The Sustainability Toolkit has been developed to address the lack of step-by-step guidance to show organizations how develop and implement a comprehensive sustainability management plan. The Toolkit integrates globally-recognized approaches to sustainability management that can be used to manage an organization’s supplier/customer sustainability requirements. The proposed project will test the Toolkit approach and allow interns, working with various client organizations, to identify the common sustainability requirements suppliers must address through their sustainability programs and the type of reporting buying organizations require of their suppliers to demonstrate their sustainability progress.
Interns will gain hands-on work experience in the sustainability field, while Tavares Group Consulting benefits from invaluable feedback required to develop an online software version of the Toolkit. Participating client organizations will benefit from an efficient process to manage supplier sustainability requirements.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephan Vachon

Student:

Partner:

Tavares Group Consulting Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Conserving the buzz: An interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder approach to pollinator conservation in Ontario, Canada

Southern Ontario is one of the most critical regions in Canada in terms of wildlife-human conflict. It has one of the highest proportions of species at-risk but also dense human population and agricultural productivity. This project proposes to research whether habitat for at-risk pollinators can be adequately incorporated onto private farmland using methods from natural and social sciences. In addition, it seeks to determine whether farmers experience a perceived and/or actual financial benefit from this habitat in the form of increased ecosystem services (e.g. pollination, pest control, water conservation). By working with the Nature Conservancy of Canada, we will be working to create long term suitable habitat using wildlife corridors for endangered and economically important pollinators in areas they historically occupied through community-based management with local landowners.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sheila Colla

Student:

Partner:

Nature Conservancy of Canada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Sustainability & the Environment; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

A study of the physical condition of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) in the Deception Bay region

The high cost and low quality of meat sold in the north make subsistence fishing and hunting of vital importance to the Inuit. Accordingly, the reported decline in the condition of Arctic charr from the Deception River was of concern to all stakeholders, e.g., Government, local industry, but particularly to the Inuit and their representatives. To complete the research proposed here, a MSc student intern, sponsored by Makivik Corporation, will collaborate with key government biologists and representatives of the local Raglan Mine to sample recently over-wintered and post-feeding migration fish from the Deception River and compare their biological status to that of other Arctic populations in northern Quebec. In collaboration with scientists from the University of Waterloo and INRS (Quebec City), the intern will establish the significance of reported declines in condition and examine linkages between condition, patterns of feeding at sea and during the winter and heavy metal contaminants. Findings will be used both to help resource managers at Makivik and in Government ensure the sustainability of high quality fish for the Inuit, thereby helping to better the local Inuit economy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Power;Patrice Couture

Student:

Partner:

Glencore Canada Corporation - Raglan Mine;Makivik Corporation

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Mining

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Thermal and fluid Flow Analysis of Innovative

With increasingly more stringent emission standards as well as higher fuel economy requirements for modern vehicles, the need for improved or new catalytic converter technologies continues to grow. A new generation of catalytic converters, designed and patented by Vida Fresh Air Corp., offers improved thermal management of the converter over traditional catalytic converters resulting in improved emissions and fuel economy as well as reduced cost. In order to design and develop this technology for different platforms, Vida relies heavily on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations to determine the optimal CleanalyticTM design for the best possible performance. In this project, a detailed experimental investigation will be conducted in order to evaluate the thermal and fluid flow characteristics of the CleanalyticTM catalytic converter compared to the baseline converters. The student working in this project will gain a very good practical experience working in a real-world problem of a great benefits to the automotive industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wael Ahmed

Student:

Partner:

Vida Holdings Corp

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Foundations for Geocontextualization

Urban design and development is an iterative process that involves community engagement and multiple feedback cycles. Advances in internet technologies and web mapping technologies has made it possible to display design plans on websites and to collect feedback on specific locations or aspects of the provided design. Using web mapping applications to feedback from the community is formally known as facilitated volunteer geographic information (FVGI). FVGI has potential to improve decision making in urban governance but it comes with challenges such as data overload, poor data quality and data ambiguity. This research proposes an automated process to address FVGI challenges using a methodology termed as geocontextualization. The technique will use machine learning theories and an understanding of geography to achieve desired results. The partnership project will focus on the foundations of the methodology by providing the researcher to develop and implement data collection and reporting methodologies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Feick

Student:

Partner:

Gerrard Design Associates Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Monitoring, Tracking, and Reporting of Sustainability Impacts

Quantifying Economic, Environmental and Social Sustainability Impacts of organizations and initiatives is challenging, particularly for the environmental and social legs. Enviro-Stewards recently introduced a shared savings based project approach in addition to its conventional (lump sum) based service approach. Quantification of impacts is particularly relevant to the shared savings approach wherein, Enviro-Stewards’ compensation is based on net savings realized by our customers and tracking of associated impacts provides our customers with 3rd party data for their own sustainability metrics.
The scope of this research is to establish criteria for measuring sustainability impacts of our conventional projects, shared savings projects and safe water projects, quantifying impacts to date (based on historical records) and establishing a system to facilitate monitoring tracking and reporting of such metrics going forward. The audiences would be our customers, their customers, the general public as well as certifying and other organizations interested in sustainability.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephan Vachon

Student:

Partner:

Enviro-Stewards Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Carbon thin-films for cosmetic jewellery applications: Year 3

Thin-films of carbon are finding use in a wide variety of military, industrial, and commercial applications. Arnell Workshop Inc., a West Kelowna, British Columbia-based cosmetic jewellery manufacturer, is using thin-films of carbon in order to coat titanium rings. As of the present moment, they are using an American firm in order to perform these depositions. They are, however, discouraged by the quality of the resultant films (they appear to be flaking and are non-uniform in thickness) and in the length of time that it takes for their product to be shipped back and forth to and from this American company (over a week). This has convinced the management at Arnell Workshop Inc. to consider performing in-house depositions. We aim to customize and optimize the deposition conditions required for these thin-film depositions using the sputtering system available at Arnell Workshop Inc. Quality assessment and accelerated aging protocols will also be developed in this project. It is hoped that the results of this project will equip our industrial partner, Arnell Workshop Inc., with a strategic advantage over its competitors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen O'Leary

Student:

Partner:

Arnell Workshop Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Mitigation of concrete corrosion in potash mine and milling operations

The objective of this research will be to evaluate the ability of a rebar coating strategy to resist chloride induced corrosion and to test its efficacy in mitigating concrete corrosion in potash mill environments. This research project involves a collaboration between academics and the potash industry under the guidance of the International Mineral Innovation Institute (IMII). The academic research team will be able to supply the partner organizations with highly trained HQP with expertise in corrosion and materials science. The successful implementation of the proposed strategy would be a major contributor to reduce environmental impact and improved safety performance to the potash mining companies who are our industrial partners. Furthermore, as the technology would also be applicable to concrete corrosion mitigation in any high-salinity environment (e.g. highway infrastructure and marine settings), commercialization could lead to markets beyond the initial scope of the project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrew Grosvenor;Ian Burgess

Student:

Partner:

International Minerals Innovation Institute

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Impact du contrôle des plantes aquatiques invasives sur les invertébrés aquatiques

Ce projet a pour but de mieux comprendre les impacts de l’installation de membranes de jute pour le contrôle des plantes aquatiques envahissantes sur la biodiversité des lacs. En collaboration avec un organisme de bassins versants, nous recouvrirons de jutes des portions d’un lac colonisé par le myriophylle à épi. Cette espèce exotique envahit de nombreux lacs au Canada et cause des problèmes aux plaisanciers, sans compter les effets néfastes sur la valeur des propriétés riveraines. Ce projet vise à comprendre les impacts de cette méthode de contrôle sur l’abondance et la diversité du zooplancton, un élément de grande importance pour maintenir une bonne qualité de l’eau et contrer la prolifération de cyanobactéries. De son côté, ce projet fournira à l’organisme partenaire une occasion de développer une expertise lui permettant d’agir dans un secteur en forte expansion en proposant une méthode de contrôle des plantes aquatiques respectueuse des écosystèmes lacustre.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrea Bertolo;Christophe Kinnard

Student:

Partner:

Société d’aménagement et de mise en valeur du bassin de la Batiscan

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

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