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Quantifying the economic co-benefits of conservation action in the Fraser River Estuary

Popular belief suggests that investing in conservation costs jobs and economic opportunities. This argument continues to be used to steer investment away from conservation and towards industries that exploit natural resources. Part of this argument originates from how we currently evaluate economic return on investment for conservation action. Current methods do not properly account for economic co-benefits. Co-benefits are additional benefits beyond the direct gains associated with investing in conservation for a species. For example, salmon conservation in BC will indirectly boost the whale tourism industry, since salmon are a primary food source for southern resident killer whales. Our proposed research will build a framework for properly accounting for the co-benefits of conservation action. We will then apply this framework to a case study in the Fraser River estuary, to determine the economic return of investing in conservation in this highly biodiverse and urbanized region. We hypothesize that when the co-benefits of conservation action are considered, the economic gains will offset the cost of investment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tara Martin

Student:

Partner:

Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Molecular-Based Analytics for Prediction and Optimization of Performance

Recent advancements in the study of large biological datasets coupled with powerful machine learning tools and new analytical technologies have opened up the ability to predict risks to health and possibly intervene before disease has manifested. Molecular You has developed a web based interface that integrates all these technologies into easy to understand visual health report for consumers. However, many consumers do not need to worry about health risks, as they are relatively healthy and do not have any health risks identified by our platform. Rather they are more interested in how to optimize their health, through improving their athletic performance through boost in fitness capacity and decrease in fatigue and recovery times. This study will develop a tool and web-based interface specific to lifestyle changes applied to improving and optimizing athletic performance. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Crystal Karakochuk;Robert Boushel

Student:

Partner:

Molecular You Corporation

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University; The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Assessment of the “Pathway to Resilience” program

The purpose of this research is to develop an assessment for the “Pathway to Resilience” program. The “Pathway to Resilience” program is a resilience training program for employees developed by Air Institute. The assessment created during this internship will be used to assess the program’s effectiveness. This assessment will be used to guide organizational reports delivered to client organizations following the program. This assessment will also provide insight into the program’s effectiveness for internal use (i.e., modify the program where needed and provide evidence for its effectiveness). The “Pathway to Resilience” program aims to promote mental health and prevent psychological harm (MHCC, 2012; 2013).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kevin Kelloway

Student:

Partner:

AIR Institutes

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

Saint Mary's University

Program:

Accelerate

Quantum Resources Required for GKP Qubits

Qubits are fundamental units for quantum computation. Photonics is a promising physical medium to realize large-scale quantum computation. One proposal to realize photonic qubits was proposed by Gottesman, Kitaev and Preskill (GKP). Here, the logical qubit is encoded into states of a bosonic mode or a quantum harmonic oscillator. It is expected that such a procedure will lead to a better quality and number of qubits. Very recently, it was shown that these GKP qubits along with Gaussian operations that can be constructed from squeeze operators, displacements, interferometers, phase shifters, and homodyne measurements are sufficient for universal fault-tolerant quantum computation. The GKP qubits could play an important role in many applications of quantum computation using continuous-variable systems. The aim of this project is to determine the resources required for producing GKP qubits using squeezed displaced states, interferometers, and photon-number-resolving measurements.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hoi-Kwong Lo

Student:

Partner:

Xanadu

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Implementation of a Comprehensive Athlete Monitoring Program in Female and Male Varsity Ice Hockey Players

In order to improve athlete performance and maintain health, it is crucial to find a balance between training/competition demand, and the stress experienced by athletes. To improve performance, training and adaptation is necessary, but it is also crucial to consider how much training and competition an athlete can handle before it becomes harmful to their mental and physical health. The overall purpose of this project is to develop an athlete monitoring program that allows for training and competition demand (physically, psychologically, and physiologically) to be determined and assess the response, both mentally and physically, throughout an entire varsity hockey season in both male and female players. The partner organization has a long history of research that aims to understand athletes and improve performance and overall well-being. This project will attempt to develop an athlete monitoring program that will assist and improve these core objectives.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lawrence Spriet

Student:

Partner:

PepsiCo Beverages Canada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Machine Learning Forecasting Techniques For Company Financial Fundamentals In Long-Term Value Investing

This project is addressing a deficit in the long-term valuation space for robust mathematics. Current techniques rely on very basic statistics and manually constructed spreadsheet models. This represents significant operational risk to investment firms. This project will seek to, using machine learning, develop accurate forecasting models for the financial fundamentals of companies in order to help address this risk. These models, mainly using financial time series forecasting techniques, will extend existing forecasting algorithms for companies’ financial fundamentals to improve upon the accuracy of pre-existing techniques. Complementary to this will be further development on research into making these machine learning algorithms interpretable by non-technical users.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roger Grosse

Student:

Partner:

Valsys

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Developing Cannabis resources for the 21st century

Over the past few years Cannabis has gone through a revolution with respect to its applications to both the medical and recreational markets. For legal reasons, much Cannabis genetics has been hap hazard but now with legalization scientific approaches can be used to develop useful Cannabis strains for the industry. In this proposal, we will develop two transformative programs to revolutionize Cannabis genetics. The first involves the development of a cheap fast method to identify Cannabis strains. The second approach involves increasing the genetic variation of Cannabis strains for future industrial needs. The development of both a high throughput genotyping tool and mutagenized Cannabis germplasms is key to future breeding strategies with Cannabis licensed producers in Canada and abroad.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Coleman;Peter McCourt;Shelley Lumba

Student:

Partner:

Ascendant Laboratories Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Highly Tuned Polymer Surfaces and Modified Polyserotonin Nanoparticle in inhibition of Bacterial Adhesion

The rise of pathogens increasingly resistant to all known antibiotics is becoming an alarming and pressing health care problem. Despite considerable efforts towards finding new antibiotics with novel targets; bacteria will eventually develop resistance against these new classes of drugs. Designing alternative therapeutics with much improved efficacy?without conferring further resistance?is therefore warranted. My research proposal aims to contribute to this global effort by employing polyserotonin nanoparticles (PSeNPs) as an anti-bacterial agent. Through my Mitacs Globalink host, I will decorate the surface of my PSeNPs with polymers exhibiting antifouling properties, tuned for different grafting densities. The resulting polymer-modified PSeNP (PM-PSNP), along with PSeNPs’ intrinsic bacterial-killing property, will then be tested for its anti-adhesion/anti-microbial activities against S. mutans, an oral pathogen responsible for dental caries. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ruby Sullan

Student:

Partner:

Queensland University of Technology

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Magnetic Thin Film Fabrication for HAMR Studies

Hard disk technology is still the most widely used technology for data storage. Two promising technologies to improve this industry are Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) and all-optical switching (AOS) of magnetization. To check the validity of theories that support HAMR and AOS, more rigorous experimental data is required. Laboratory for Ultrafast Thermomagnetics (LUTher) at York University has the facilities to perform these rigorous tests. However, highly specialized thin films must be manufactured to do so. Proposed project would allow for a PhD student from LUTher to travel to Germany to use the world-renowned facilities at Technische Universität Chemnitz, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and expertise of Dr Olav Hellwig in order to manufacture such samples in a timely manner. Chemnitz and HZDR offer the ability to make and characterize a vast amount of material sets that will allow LUTher to individually test for material properties critical for HAMR and AOS. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Simone Pisana

Student:

Partner:

Technische Universität Chemnitz

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

York University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Divided We Fail: Reproductive Rights & LGBTQ Activism in Ireland

Ireland achieved trans gender protections and same-sex marriage in 2015, several years before on-demand, unrestricted access to abortion (2019). This phenomenon is unlike most countries, which achieve reproductive rights first. In Ireland, reproductive and family rights were slow to arrive, contraceptives (without a prescription) was legalised in 1992, divorce in 1995, and from 1983-2018, there was a constitutional ban on all abortion, excluding instances where the life of the mother was threatened.
This project seeks to understand why LGBTQ-related rights arrived first, and the role of activism in this progression. The research will primarily include archival work and interviews with activists, and incorporate feminist theory to understand why Ireland is an outlier. Suspected findings are that same-sex marriage was first-framed as an equality issue, while reproduction was considered a moral concern. The research will show that through utilizing the “equality” framework of LGBTQ activism, reproductive freedom was finally realized.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Emer O'Toole

Student:

Partner:

University College Dublin

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Generation of S9 from fish cell lines as an alternative to live animals

Live animal testing is currently the standard approach for assessing the risk chemicals may pose to wildlife. The costs and ethical concerns associated with live animal testing, however, constitute a significant challenge to regulators and industry in fulfilling their testing mandates to characterize the risks of environmental contaminants. To reduce these challenges, improved exposure assessments that assess chemical risk at target tissues are needed. In vitro assays that characterize biotransformation of chemicals, in combination with in silico (i.e. toxicokinetic modelling) approaches are a proposed alternative to reduce the number of animals used in chemical testing. The current in vitro assays however, use hepatocytes or the S9 fraction of the liver obtained from a live animal. To eliminate the need for live animals to obtain the tissue, generation of S9 from permanent cultures of liver cells is proposed.TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Markus Brinkmann;Markus Hecker

Student:

Partner:

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Physically-Informed Vinyl Record Model for Real-Time Guitar Effect Processing

In the world of music, the warm, lo-fi response of vintage, analog electronic equipment is generally considered to deliver better sound than modern equipment. This is aptly demonstrated by guitar players who prefer vintage effect pedals, and music enthusiasts that prefer to enjoy music on vinyl records – despite the rising cost, difficult maintenance, and increasing scarcity of vintage equipment. As such, many manufacturers and researchers have begun digitally recreating this vintage equipment – allowing their sounds to be reproduced at lower cost, with increased robustness and consistency. In line with this paradigm, we plan to digitally recreate the response of an old vinyl record player and incorporate it into a pedal. It’ll give guitar players the experience of playing through an old vinyl record player by recreating all the warmth, warble, and noise that vinyl junkies love in an easy to use stompbox.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gary Scavone

Student:

Partner:

SolidGoldFX

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

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