Grants and Contributions

This project is designed to help Trip Ninja create a new system for dynamically packaging flight and hotel content together for all types of flights (one-way, round-trip and multi-stop), not just round-trip, which is what is typically found in the market.

This is Stage-II of the Providius Cybersecurity for IoT, AV and Workplace Technology software. Client will focus on three main problem statements: 1. patch management, which will dynamically track the version of software a device is executing, 2. network appliance telemetry which will dynamically track health, performance, and linkage to connected devices in real-time, and 3. both 1 and 2 will be bundled in a secure and scalable deployment package, ready for on-prem and cloud based operations.

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

The project entails development testing and user validation of a platform that creates sustainable connections between business and charities by removing barriers to group employee volunteering. The businesses will benefit with lower administration and coordination of volunteering as well as build corporate culture and social capital. Charities and non-profits will gain access to a large and consistent pool of volunteers and support for their fundraising efforts and events.

Forage is developing the first fully off-grid mushroom farm, capable of operation in nearly any geography or climate, using renewable energy. By creating a sustainable and rapidly deployable mushroom farming technology, we will reduce the strain on food supply chain and the distance between farm to fork.

Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) provide critical thermal protection to the super?alloy metallic parts located in the hot sections of gas turbine engines permitting them to operate at higher temperatures. The power of a turbine is nearly directly proportional to its combustion temperature and advanced turbines are pushing the limits of operational temperature. The main objective of this partnership is to conceive, engineer and optimize the next generation of TBCs using thermal spray processes. The potential outcomes of this research project include new generation of thermally sprayed bond coats and suspension plasma sprayed (SPS) top coats with improved CMAS resistance and a comprehensive computer model to predict coating microstructure, roughness, porosity etc. These new TBC coatings will lead to production of more durable components and more energy?efficient engines, lowering the maintenance costs and increasing flight safety. Consequently, these Canadian companies will be able to better compete in the global market

The project is composed of three parts: (i) Identification and analysis of A. baumannii genes that allow for bacteriophage infection, (ii) deletion of endogenous prophages in AB5075 by allelic replacement, and (iii) identifying genes responsible for capsule overproduction (often the target of bacteriophages) in strains overproducing bacterial second messenger c-di-GMP

When light beams travel through the atmosphere, they are deformed because of variations in temperature, humidity and wind conditions. This makes reconstruction of the signal carried by the light beam very challenging. Wavefront sensing approaches allows one to measure such deformations so that they can corrected. However, doing so efficiently is extremely challenging. The Project aims to develop a better understanding of the fundamental limits of wavefront sensing and to apply advanced ML/AI techniques to optimize the sensing approach. This work will further the development of broadband wavefront sensing systems targeted at space-to?ground optical communications.

The Nunatsiavut Government leads one of the most comprehensive plastic pollution monitoring programs in the Arctic, including monitoring of water, ice, shorelines, and animals. This project builds on existing Inuit-led research in this area and uses capacity sharing (rather than capacity building) to work with new and returning partners to extend this work in two ways. First, monitoring will focus on birds caught for food for which there are no existing plastic ingestion baselines in the region (or the world). Secondly, we will link plastic pollution with heavy metal contamination since plastics are known to act as a vector for heavy metals. We will compare this new baseline data to colonial archival samples of birds collected from Nunatsiavut to investigate trends in heavy metals and their relationship to changes from climate change, the introduction of consumer plastics to the North, and other temporal points of significance. Additionally, we will identify sources of macro plastics on shorelines using new forensics based in collective community knowledge, and link these sources to micro plastics ingested by animals to provide input on meaningful intervention into plastic pollution control and mitigation from human activities. This research will be directed and validated by continuous community review and evaluation through land-based workshops aimed at recognizing that local knowledge holders are the main experts within that space and environment. Together, these activities will be used to inform plastic pollution, heavy metal contamination, and Inuit food way governance and mitigation by the Nunatsiavut Government.

By combining Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ), satellite data and state-of-the?art unmanned airborne vehicles (UAVs, or drones), the team will co?produce new information on sea ice and snow roughness and slush for the operational SmartICE Ice Travel Safety Maps. The production of these maps may be piloted in partner Nunavut communities of Arctic Bay, Gjoa Haven, Pond Inlet, Qikiqtarjuaq, and a Nunavik community, and eventually be expanded to all SmartICE communities (>24) in Inuit Nunangat. The approach will be grounded in IQ, and include a co-designed Inuit training program for UAV-based sea ice monitoring to augment the mature environmental data collection developed by SmartICE. The team will adapt UAVs and sensors to collect high-resolution topographic and electromagnetic data for local travel safety maps, as well as ground-truth a series of novel satellite products of sea-ice thickness and roughness, based on optical and micro-wave frequencies. With the Arctic Eider Society partner, a growing network of Inuit Nunangat communities will be able to access in near real-time these new satellite and in-situ data products and SmartICE Ice Travel Safety Maps through the Indigenous Knowledge Social Network platform (SIKU). At the request of the SmartICE Community Management Committees, the local travel safety maps will also be distributed in paper format within communities.