Grants and Contributions

The project aims to create a decision support tool to improve navigation operations in icy waters. The tool will support tactical navigation decisions to optimize routing in icy waters over a time horizon of a few hours to a few days. It can be used to support decision making at different levels of ship autonomy, whether it is to provide on-demand routing advice to the bridge team, to serve as a primary source of tactical decisions that the bridge team can implement, whether onboard or in a remote control center, or to act autonomously to navigate an optimal route from departure to destination. As the degree of autonomy increases, the more the proposed tool must be integrated into the overall navigation system. In the proposed work, the focus is on assisting the crew on board during the planning and execution of a trip.

Develop enhancements to achieve a full-functioning marine SCMS (Ship Control and Monitoring System) that is desired for medium size vessels such as the Canadian Coast Guard Mid-Shore Patrol Vessels (43 Meter) as well as larger re-fits such as Ice Breakers (120 Meter) & anything in-between.

Virtual Marine (VM) is a leader in simulator-based training for small vessel (lifeboat and fast response boat) and ice management operations. VM collects data from multiple simulators in the field which is used to analyze performance and improve training programs.

Questron’s QBlock and QPrep control electronics are currently based on Infineon Technologies PSoc 5 IC. This microcontroller is now entering legacy status and the manufacturer is making it harder to purchase as an of-the-shelf component.

Through hundreds of interviews, mapping sessions, and trips onto the land/sea/ice, Aporta has recorded Inuit travel routes - trails - across the Arctic.

It will feature a full-size ice surface, six dressing rooms, spectator seating, a pro-shop, offices, a mezzanine level running/walking track, a fitness space, a dividable multi-purpose room, a canteen, a community lobby, and related support areas.

In order to take advantage of the full potential of the Flipfarm rearing system, L2-RPA Inc. has developed a buoy better adapted to our rearing conditions and which will allow the wintering of rearing structures under the ice. They have conceptualized devices for overwintering and returning the baskets to the water surface the following spring to mechanize the operation.

Canada's Fisheries Fund will transform and drive innovation in the fish and seafood sector in Canada with a focus on developing the sector to better meet growing market demands for sustainably sourced, high-quality fish and seafood products.

Study the migratory ecology of the searun (anadromous) Arctic char of the Cambridge Bay region. The study will address key challenges in the management of and important fishery, provide information on critical freshwater and marine habitats, and establish a basis for understanding the physiological constraints that will be most important in predicting the response of the species to a changing Arctic.

At Lake Untersee, a perennially ice-covered lake in Antarctica, the deep anoxic basin with its unusual biogeochemical processes serves as an analog environment, providing a model for the study of the composition of the Enceladus plume and the potential habitability of its sub-ice ocean.