Grants and Contributions

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Enhance the Labrador West Regatta 50th anniversary event

Digitally enhance the trail system in Labrador West and increase outreach of eMagazine

Engage expertise in the area of digital adoption

MEOPAR will demonstrate and test the potential of Modular Ocean Research Infrastructure (MORI) for the support of multidisciplinary ocean science. The project Tracer Release Experiment (TReX) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, jointly supported by the Réseau Québec Maritime and the MEOPAR network will be used as a demonstration cruise to explore the potential of MORI for multidisciplinary ocean research. For the upcoming 2022 seasons, two separate cruises in the Gulf of St. Lawrence are being planned as part of TReX to search for and measure the distribution of a tracer that was deliberately introduced into the Gulf of St. Lawrence to study dissolved oxygen supply to subsurface waters in October 2021. Among the expected outcomes are to evaluate MORI as a future model for collaboration across federal departments, academics, and industry, and extend NRC’s interactions with key researchers and organizations who share common interests.

The Project will support the development of techniques and algorithms for low-light imaging and detection using novel time-bin interferometers and analyzers, which is usually used for quantum communications. The project team will apply these ideas to a system that includes imaging interferometers equipped with photon detection arrays, which overcome the issues for free-space photons exposed to scattering or turbulent media, while retrieving the phase and intensity information of each photon to recover their pattern with high visibility. Every photon arrival on every pixel can be individually logged with ~100 picosecond precision, and several 100 million photons per second can be detected across the array. These features will be exploited to develop a novel algorithm for analysis of the very faint (and noisy) images expected for a single-photon imaging device. Finally, the project will demonstrate phase encoding to enhance of contrast for distant objects, and study how to characterize their shape and motion.

This project aims to develop and validate an evidence-informed decision-making guide. This guide will enable older adults (≥ aged 65 years), care-partners and clinicians select the most appropriate medication adherence technology to address physical, cognitive, perception, motivational and environmental barriers to medication taking. To achieve this goal, the project incorporates multiple studies to identify tools by which to measure different barriers to medication taking, develop a classification system for medication adherence technology, examine user experience of a variety of medication adherence technologies with older adults who have various limitations in medication taking, and assess in?home use and acceptance of medication adherence technology, medication adherence, and impact on care-partner burden.

This project aims to develop new materials to enable low-cost, flexible and visibly transparent detection of near-infrared (NIR) light. Current detectors are high performance but are costly to fabricate and limited in form factor. Novel materials such as organic semiconductors or 2D materials have shown promise for NIR detection. In particular, there is a vast array of 2D materials with unique properties which enable fast and sensitive detectors. However, devices based on 2D materials tend to be limited in efficiency as a result of their weak absorption of light, and manufacturing high quality films of 2D materials from solution is challenging. Combining 2D materials with semiconducting polymers could lead to flexible, inexpensive devices. The 2D Materials and Electrochemical Devices lab at the University of Waterloo will collaborate with NRC and Brilliant Matters, a Quebec based company that specialises in organic electronic materials, in order to investigate the potential for these hybrid materials and deliver additively manufactured flexible, transparent NIR photodetectors. This will enable a transformative leap in applications, moving away from the cost and design limitations of expensive, rigid and opaque sensors.