Grants and Contributions
About this information
In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
$220,000.00
Mar 31, 2015
This research project will use data collected by field experiments and SAMP data to develop methods to assimilate and disaggregate soil moisture in an ecosystem model for improving the simulations of the soil moisture and energy, water and carbon fluxes and for optimizing water-related model parameters. The project will also provide a coupled water and carbon cycle model for the further development of the CaLDAS used for weather and hydrological forecasts.
$560,000.00
Mar 31, 2015
Assessment of the capabilities of the SWOT mission for improving the water balance of a large northern wetland complex
This proposed research project is to assess the capacities of the SWOT mission, jointly with other remote sensing observations, to improve the water balance of the Peace-Athabasca-Delta (PAD) in Alberta, and in particular the storage variations of the large lakes and wetlands found in this area.
$289,200.00
Mar 31, 2015
Academia
Anticipating Altimetric measurements of interactions between internal waves and geostrophic flows
14SUSWOTTO
This proposed research project intends to derive conceptual models of processes of interactions between oceanic internal waves, fronts, and other flows existing on similar scales. The team will also work to improve knowledge on coastal currents, mesoscale and submesoscale features, tides, marine winds and waves from existing nadir altimetry data, and to improve tide, circulation and wave models and to develop technique that can effectively integrate simulated SWOT data into the models.
$37,000.00
Mar 26, 2015
The objective is to extend the data analysis from 'VASCULAR', a study that took place on the International Space Station.
$49,881.00
Mar 26, 2015
Following the announcement of Opportunity (AO) published on the 23rd of February 2011, CSA is providing funding via a grant agreement to the University to allow a scientist to participate in the NASA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission as a participating scientist.
$30,000.00
Mar 20, 2015
This grant will support the University of Alberta in the data analysis of magnetometer measurements taken during a suborbital flight. This will further the University's study of the ionosphere and contribute to the development of their magnetometer technology.
$200,000.00
Mar 13, 2015
This project entitled "" Application of RADARSAT-2 polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for geological mapping and resource exploration in the Canadian Arctic "" has the objective to develop new tools and techniques using RADARSAT-2 imagery to improve geological mapping, land use management and assist resource exploration in the Canadian Arctic.
$200,000.00
Mar 13, 2015
This project entitled "" Towards automated mapping of lake ice using RADARSAT-2 and simulated RADARSAT Constellaton Mission compact polarimetric data "" has the objective to to develop an automated method to map ice cover on lakes using RADARSAT-2 imagery for numerical weather forecasting and climate monitoring at northern latitudes.
$161,095.00
Mar 13, 2015
This project entitled "" Integration of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) to support the sustainable risk management of linear infrastructure subject to geohazards "" has the objective to integrate radar imagery to other source of information within a tool set to assess the impact of significance of a damaging event resulting from geohazards on transportation infrastructure.
$82,680.00
Mar 13, 2015
This project entitled "" Inferring surface roughness and vegetation characteristics from RADARSAT-2 "" has the objective the use of satellite imagery to determine the impact of the soil characteristics on the quality and quantity of vegetation growth. The RADARSAT-2 imagery will also contribute to enhance the soil moisture information generated from other sources and use to manage agricultural activities.