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An Investigation on the Detection of Oil-based Pollutant Spills in Ice-infested Arctic Waters Utilizing Active Microwave Remote Sensing

Climate change continues to shrink the sea ice in the Arctic. Consequently, there is an ever-increasing trend of industrial and shipping activities in the Canadian Arctic. This results into a high risk of accidental or deliberate release of oil-related pollutants in the Arctic waters. Satellite remote sensing is a key component in spill detection as an essential step towards any remediation and cleanup effort. Thus, this project proposes to develop a detection algorithm based on microwave satellite data that can be incorporated into a high-level oil spill alarm system. An array of single-, dual-, and available quad-polarimetric parameters will be incorporated in the algorithm in addition to the optical and local prior information to achieve detection. Furthermore, the integrability of the data collected at different frequencies will be investigated. TO BE CONT”D

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Faculty Supervisor:

David G Barber

Student:

Partner:

C-CORE

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Exploration of equillibrium moisture content characteristics for Manitoba-grown soybeans

The equilibrium moisture content (EMC) is an important physical property that significantly impacts all hygroscopic biomaterial. Knowledge of EMC of grains and pulses including soybeans is essential for efficient post-harvest operations such as drying, aeration, or storage. EMC changes with the variety but is also affected by handling and aeration practices. During storage, seeds undergo many micro-wetting and drying cycles or freezing and thawing cycles, which also affect the sorption and desorption characteristics. Plant breeding has resulted in grains and oilseeds of different constituents, which directly affects the EMC values. Moreover, very little information on EMC characteristics is available for Manitoba grown soybeans. Therefore, to establish the best post-harvest techniques for soybeans, the objective of this proposal is: i) to determine the sorption and desorption characteristics under the different storage conditions of commonly grown soybean varieties in Manitoba, ii) to develop web-based guidelines for safe storage of seleced beans.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jitendra Paliwal

Student:

Partner:

Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

A survey of mental health in medical marijuana users in Vancouver, Canada.

The Canadian Mental Health Association states that all Canadians will indirectly be affected by mental health at some time in their lives through a family member, friend, or colleague and that 20% of Canadians will be affected personally. Most conditions are treated with pharmaceuticals that often come with unwanted side effects. Many patients have starting looking for alternatives from “big pharma” medications and in this search have found medical marijuana to be helpful. Medical marijuana can be used for a wide variety of different medical conditions, but the large majority of patients use medical marijuana for its psychological effects, such as for anxiety, depression, pain and insomnia. Though there is research supporting many of its benefits, the role of cannabis in mental health is still unclear and therefore requires further investigation. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alasdair Barr

Student:

Partner:

Drayton MedCanna Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Historical reconstruction of long-term forest dynamics in southern Quebec to improve sustainable forest management

European colonization and industrial development have profoundly transformed the forested landscapes of north-eastern North America. Consequently, historical forest characteristics, such as forests prior to settlement and industrial exploitation (i.e. the presettlement forests), serve as a model for developing a sustainable forest management. In this project, we aim to reconstruct long-term changes in forest landscapes of southern Quebec. Early land-survey archives are logbooks reporting the original survey of townships mostly surveyed throughout the XIXth century and which contain highly valuable information about forest composition for this period. These data will be used to reconstruct presettlement forest landscapes. Additionally, paleoecological data from lake cores (e.g. pollen records) will be used to assess millennial changes in forest vegetation. This research project will provide key knowledge to improve sustainable management of southern Quebec’s forests to the partner organization (TEMBEC inc. forest product company) and to other actors from the private and public sectors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yves Bergeron;Olivier Blarquez;Dominique Arseneault

Student:

Partner:

Rayonier A.M. Canada S.E.N.C.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal; Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Accelerate

Production decline curve analysis with reservoir properties of shale gas

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Faculty Supervisor:

Japan Trivedi

Student:

Partner:

Inha University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Automatic Document Redaction

Document redaction has long been a heavy manual work. When governments and companies need to make documents available either internally or externally, they would need to hire someone with enough professional background to manually cross-out the sensitive information in the documents. The process is both time consuming and expensive. Thanks to the fast advances in artificial intelligence, it is now possible to develop highly intelligent software tools to redact documents automatically. This is what the research project will primarily focus on, it will be an automatic document redaction tool designed specifically for the tax group in PwC, to process the documents that are to be included in its internal knowledge base.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nathan Taback

Student:

Partner:

PricewaterhouseCoopers (Toronto, ON)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

La détection hyperspectrale aéroportée des émissions de méthane par les systèmes aquatiques

Le methane (CH 4) est un gaz a effet de serre puissant dont les sources sont multiples, incluant les tourbieres, les lacs et les eaux usees. Les etudes montrent que les flux de CH4 sont tres variables dans l’espace et dans le temps, mais les donnees sont encore fragmentaires. Ce manque d’information limite notre capacite a extrapoler et modeliser Ia contribution des differents milieux dans le contexte des changements environnementaux et climatiques. Ce projet vise a localiser et quantifier les points chauds d’emission de CH4 sur le paysage en utilisant l’imagerie infrarouge hyperspectrale (IRHS) aeroportee. Nous proposons de tester le potentiel d’une camera IRHS de haute resolution pour detecter le CH4 emis par les mi lieux aquatiques en mode aeroporte (vertical), une technologie pouvant s’averer particulierement attrayante en regions eloignees.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Isabelle Laurion

Student:

Partner:

Telops

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Accelerate

Passerine migration and stopover across an urban gradient

To develop ‘green’ cities and to assess environmental impacts in cities, it is essential to understand the spatial distribution of sensitive species, such as migrating birds. Migration is a costly and dangerous time for songbirds, with up to 80% mortality during their first migration. As migratory birds are protected under the federal Migratory Bird Act, there is a need to better understand how we can best protect migratory birds and their critical habitats and stopover sites. By using new tracking technology, our project will quantify movements and habitat use by moult migrant songbirds in green spaces and the surrounding landscape in and on the outskirts of on of the largest metropolis of Canada, the island of Montreal. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kyle Elliott

Student:

Partner:

Migration Research Foundation

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Conception et validation de tableaux de bord et d’une aide à l’interprétation des résultats de consultations citoyennes dans le cadre d’une application de ville intelligente

B-CITI Solutions Inc. développent l’application B-CITI qui est une plateforme intelligente multi-villes/multi-canaux qui connecte les systèmes des villes, centralise et nettoie les données, numérise les services aux citoyens et offre l’analyse en temps réel des données. L’application B-CITI dispose d’un module de consultation citoyenne qui ne dispose pour le moment d’aucune fonctionnalité d’analyse des données. Dans le cadre de ce projet, nous proposerons différentes façons d’analyser les réponses aux questions des consultations. De plus, nous conceptualiserons l’automatisation de tableaux de bord pour la présentation, la visualisation et l’interprétation des résultats par les gestionnaires, les élus et les citoyens.

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Faculty Supervisor:

François Bellavance

Student:

Partner:

B-CITI Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Quantifying the value added by the first large ensemble of high-resolution climate-change simulations over Québec

Regional Climate Models (RCMs) allow generating climate-change projections into the future over a limited region of the globe at high spatial resolution. The production of large ensembles of simulations from a same RCM is an emerging field of research allowing to explore in detail the interaction between climate change, natural climate variability and extreme events, at the local scale where climate impacts occur. This project takes advantage of the first high-resolution large ensemble over Québec that was recently produced by Ouranos in the scope of the Québec-Bavarian collaborative ClimEx project (www.climex-project.org). This research will address the question of “added value” by high-resolution large ensembles compared to lower-resolution smaller ensembles in order to guide Ouranos’ partners and other climate data users on how to best integrate such a dataset into the climate-change impacts and adaptation framework.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rene Laprise;Martin Leduc

Student:

Partner:

Ouranos Inc

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Accommodation and food services; Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Amélioration et développement d’un modèle de distribution de promotions croisées basé sur un graphe de produit à produit

La promotion croisée a pour but de promouvoir des nouveaux produits à des clients actuels de l’entreprise. Dans l’industrie du jeu vidéo, la promotion croisée incite à installer de nouveaux jeux. L’intérêt de la démarche est de conserver dans le réseau de de l’entreprise un client risquant de le quitter.
Une analyse menée au niveau du joueur et de son historique est nécessaire pour servir au mieux la clientèle de l’entreprise. Le stage Mitacs a pour objectif d’améliorer et de mettre en place un modèle existant qui identifie le meilleur moment pour inciter le joueur à changer de jeu.
Le modèle développé chez Gameloft modélisera de façon générique l’expérience client à travers un portfolio de produits. Il sera par conséquent susceptible de modéliser un grand nombre d’expérience d’usager sur un réseau d’items.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gilles Caporossi;Sylvain Perron

Student:

Partner:

Divertissement Gameloft Inc

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Identification of association of genome regions with community composition of rumen methanogenic in Holstein cattle

Methane emission by ruminants has considerable contribution to global warming. Individual animals have been argued to harbor their own specific microbial communities responsible for methane production. The objective of this study is to identify the genomic regions associated with community composition of rumen methanogenic archaea in Iranian Holstein cattle. The genomic DNA from 300 Iranian Holstein cattle have been genotyped using the Illumina 30K SNP panel. The community composition of rumen methanogenic archaea will be defined by qPCR of 16S rRNA genes and alignment of Illumine MiSeq reads to the GREENGENES database. Whole-genome association analyses for community composition of rumen methanogenic archaea will be performed using various statistical methods to identify quantitative trait loci and genes underlying methane emission in Iranian Holstein cattle. It is anticipated that the results of these studies will lead to the reduction of methane emission rate per animal in Iranian Holstein cattle.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Younes Miar

Student:

Partner:

University of Tehran

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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