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Developing a UAV-based camera for precision agriculture

A&L Canada Labs Inc. is developing a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) or drone with a multi-spectral camera for various precision agriculture applications. The multi-spectral camera has 6 bands: one in the red band, one in the blue band, one in the green band, and three in the NIR regions. The scope of this project is to develop precision agriculture products from the images acquired by the A&L Canada Labs Inc. camera. The first application is late blight disease detection over potato fields. The second application is to produce crop types and damages and related surface estimation for crop insurance agencies. The third application is for detecting diseases greenhouse crops. Developing such an operational monitoring system that uses top-notch drone and camera technologies is critical for A&L Canada Labs Inc that is engaged for more than 20 years in grower advising. It is also critical for the crop insurance agencies across Canada that require accurate estimation of crop damage surfaces. Detecting crop diseases are also essential for Canada as diseases are a major threat to the Canadian agricultural sector.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brigitte Leblon

Student:

Partner:

A&L Canada Laboratories Inc (NB)

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Optimization and Control of Ozone Use within Recirculating Aquaculture Systems

Recirculating aquaculture systems are indoor, tank-based systems which allow aquaculturalists to raise fish in controlled environmental conditions through the use of several water treatment processes. Research related to the aquaculture industry is important, as it is currently one of the fastest growing food industries. This research aims to improve the operation of these systems by reducing the amount of organic waste in the recirculated water through the use of ozone. The focus of this project is to address problems related to the implementation of ozone treatment within recirculating aquaculture systems by developing a central method of ozone addition, validating ozone addition guidelines, determining the effectiveness of ozone for the removal of algal cultures suspended in the system flow, and evaluating automatic control of ozone addition through the use of a UV light transmittance probe. The anticipated result for Cooke Aquaculture Inc. is an ozone system which has improved performance, is inherently safer, and reduces cost through more effective ozone dosage control.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michel Couturier

Student:

Partner:

Kelly Cove Salmon Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Proof of Concept: Real-Time Integrated Weld Analyzer in Aluminum Spot Welds

Use of aluminum alloys in the automotive industry comes with huge manufacturing challenges such as instability of spot welding processes. To overcome this challenge, frequent selective quality tests are performed in industry usually by destructive means, which are labour intensive and costly due to its nature. Non-destructive testing (NDT) of aluminum spot welds can decrease these costs. This proposed spot welding NDT method will incorporate an ultrasonic probe in the welding electrode, which is fully automated and each spot weld tested at the moment of manufacture. The proposed inspection technique is able to reveal features such as exact moment of melting, amount of liquid metal penetration into each plate, thickness of weld pool and estimation of pool diameter. This research project will demonstrate the capability of the in-line inspection of resistance spot welds in aluminum alloys and develop a database of information relating welding parameters to weld quality.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roman Maev

Student:

Partner:

Alcoa Canada

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Mapping for Change: A Case Study of Enhancing Informational Exchange and Collaboration Through Geoweb Technology

‘Mapping for Change’ is a case study of best practices in the use of Geoweb as a mechanism for enhancing informational exchange and collaboration between homelessness stakeholders including non-profits/charities serving the homeless. Using geoweb technology developed in the Spatial Information for Community Engagement (SPiCE) Lab at UBC Okanagan, the project involves implementing and monitoring/evaluating the use of a web-based mapping application (Homelessness Services Database) that will function as an accessible and searchable spatial database of housing and related services for the homeless in Kelowna. The project will benefit partner organizations through access to real-time information on homelessness services in Kelowna on which to base organizational planning efforts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jon Corbett

Student:

Partner:

Central Okanagan Foundation;United Way Central and South Okanagan/Similkameen Office

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Camp Risk Management and Camp Association

Camps are the places where staff from oil and gas companies stay while they work in the oil fields. Camp management is important to the business of all oil and gas. Failure to manage camps appropriately can result in serious risk consequences and potential legal obligations. This research plans to fill in the research gap that exists in regard to camp management of oil and gas companies. It plans to build a risk management mechanism of camp management and thus determine the feasibility of a Camp Association based in Calgary, Alberta, the headquarters of many major oil and gas companies operating in Canada. It will help the partner company manage and operate camps more efficiently and effectively. It will also benefit the camp management of other oil and gas companies by providing the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of a Camp Association.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Irene Herremans

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Dynamic clustering of temporally incremental energy consumption patterns in a knowledge cloud

This project will develop a new mechanism for grouping objects in a dynamic environment, where new objects are regularly added with limited or incomplete information. Furthermore, the information about the existing and new objects increases over time. This new grouping mechanism will be called dynamic clustering of temporally incremental patterns. The proposal will be tested using energy consumption patterns for a large number of buildings. The types of the buildings will vary based on their usage such as office buildings, warehouse, shopping malls, hospitals, educational institutes, etc. The buildings will further differ from each other in terms of size, occupancy, and hours of operations. These buildings will also be situated in geographically diverse locations and climatic conditions. The data stored in the cloud will be analysed using a number of statistical and artificial intelligence techniques to create a knowledge repository. The knowledge will provide the system abilities to:
• predict energy consumption for any given day depending on date, time, and weather conditions for any one of the buildings stored in the cloud
• optimize the energy management system to provide comfortable operating conditions with minimum energy consumption
• accommodate new buildings without knowing their history of energy management

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pawan Lingras

Student:

Partner:

Green Power Labs Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

Saint Mary's University

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluation of Ion-Exchange and Nanofiltration as Effective Methods for the Removal of Trihalomethanes Pre-cursors at the Waterhen Water Treatment Plant

This project aims to establish an ion-exchange/nanofiltration pilot study at the Waterhen water treatment plant. A natural result of the chlorination disinfection process in water treatment is the formation of disinfection by-products (DBP), a family of known carcinogens. This project aims to limit the formation of these DBP by removal of their precursors using the newly implemented pilot system. KGS Group is a contributing partner to this project, and will benefit from the interaction with the University and the expertise and the analysis that they have to offer. Manitoba Aboriginal and Northern Affairs (MANA) aims to improve the local water quality of their representing Manitoba water treatment plants. This research will aim to improve the availability of safe drinking water to the residents of Waterhen, Manitoba.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Beata Gorczyca

Student:

Partner:

KGS Group

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Water; Environmental Science and Technology; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Assessment and modification of oral-nasal balance in speakers of Brazilian Portuguese with cleft palate

Many individuals with cleft palate have hypernasal speech, which affects speech intelligibility and acceptability and is socially stigmatizing. The proposed studies relate to the assessment and the behavioural modification of oral-nasal balance in speech. The first study will test a new assessment procedure for hypernasality and other oral-nasal balance disorders which will aid clinicians in more accurately assessing their patients. The second study will explore the effect of voice focus adjustments in hypernasalspeakers with cleft palate. We expect that changing voice focus will allow patients to reduce their hypernasality. In addition, Brazilian Portuguese features nasalized vowels, whereas English does not. By conducting these studies with speakers of Brazilian Portuguese we can begin to develop assessment and treatment methods that work across languages. Taken together, the two studies have the potential to considerably change and advance the assessment of oral-nasal balance disorders and the treatment of hypernasality.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tim Bressmann

Student:

Partner:

Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho"

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Understanding the facilitators and barriers to effective water and sanitation interventions for characterizing spatial trends of Shigella infections in Jiangsu, China

Home to the world’s largest population, China faces scarce water resources and water contamination problems are causing a significant portion of China’s rural population to live without access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation. Exposure to water contaminated with human feces can cause severe diarrheal diseases, especially among children under the age of 5. In the Eastern province of Jiangsu, a significant number of diarrhea incidences are caused by shigellosis, or watery diarrhea. Fortunately, shigellosis can be effectively prevented by well-implemented water and sanitation interventions. The key objective of my research is to understand the facilitators and barriers to effective water and sanitation interventions, and how they can be used to characterize the prevalence of shigellosis among children in rural areas. The findings of this project will not only provide up-to-date evidence to affected communities, but will also provide various stakeholders (governmental agencies, local water industries, and nongovernmental organizations (NGO)) critical information needed to implement more sensible solutions and mitigation measures.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Susan Elliott

Student:

Partner:

Nanjing University

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink Research Award

100 Islands: Elucidating connections between land and ocean ecosystems

Informed decisions on resource management and development require an understanding of how projects will impact the resource, other resources, and the ecosystem. Because the ocean and land are intricately connected along coastal areas, development projects in either will invariably affect the other. However, Ecological Risk Assessments do not consider the two in tandem because the connections between the land and ocean are not well defined and an analytical tool does not currently exist to predict those connections for areas where they have not yet been measured. This project aims to incorporate land-sea interactions into the well established theory of island biogeography to provide such a framework for regions with large coastlines and many islands, like BC. Additionally, this project will result in biodiversity baseline data collection for 100 unstudied islands along the Central Coast. These data will be available for the broader research community to inform decisions on resource development along BC’s coasts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Reynolds;Brian Starzomski;Chris Darimont;Iain McKechnie;Maycira Costa;Amanda Bates

Student:

Partner:

The Hakai Institute, part of the Tula Foundation

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Environmental Science and Technology; Life Sciences (not health); Forestry

University:

Simon Fraser University; University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Religious Conservatism, LGBT Rights and Anti-Discrimination Policy Implementation in Brazil

This project seeks to explore LGBT anti–discrimination law in Brazil. Brazil is one of the most progressive countries in Latin America regarding LGBT rights and freedoms. Despite this, there has been a sharp rise in LGBT violence and murder rates in Brazil. Brazil also has a rapidly growing religiously conservative population, which currently controls a large voting block in the Brazilian Senate. In 2008, a bill attempting to add sexual orientation to the definition of anti–discrimination was introduced to help protect the LGBT community against rising rates of violence. This bill has been pending in the Brazilian senate for the past 7 years. The aim of this research is to analyze the trajectory of the bill, and the factors influencing its stalling in the Senate. By examining this, a better understanding of the politics surrounding religious conservatism and LGBT anti–discrimination law will be provided.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jordi Díez

Student:

Partner:

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Increasing harvestable berry yield using precision agriculture technologies

The overall objective of the proposed initiative is to develop a novel, berry harvesting system that will identify the root causes of increased loses; increase berry picking efficiency and product quality. Currently, there are 15 to 25% fruit yield losses during the harvesting. The wild blueberry growers set a goal increase the harvestable yields by 33%. To achieve this, the technology based products and processes that are envision include (i) identification of sources responsible for increased losses (ii) improve harvestable berry recovery, (ii) replacement of old technology with innovative integrated harvesting system, (iv) find out a suitable combination of machine parameters (ground speed harvester head revolution) an d appropriate harvesting time with minimum losses using precision agriculture technologies and mathematical modeling procedures. Improving harvesting efficiency can reduce fruit losses and contribute millions of dollars to provincial as well as the federal economy every year.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Qamar Zaman

Student:

Partner:

Slack Farms Limited

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

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