Grants and Contributions

The key objective of the Skills for Success Program is to improve the awareness of adult learning, literacy and essential skills among partners, stakeholders and employers and the application and integration of literacy and.essential skills into their programs and activities.

The key objective of the Skills for Success Program is to improve the awareness of adult learning, literacy and essential skills among partners, stakeholders and employers and the application and integration of literacy and.essential skills into their programs and activities.

Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative

This contribution supports a project facilitating the work of many collaborators to build a social-ecological model or models that characterizes re-emergence of sea otters (kuu in the Haida language) in Gwaii Haanas and Haida Gwaii. It will also provide kuu community-based management alternatives to the Gwaii Haanas Cooperative Archipelago Management Board.

This contribution provides Global Earth Observation Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) Secretariat, hosted by McGill University, with the means to implement a project entitled “Tools, Approaches, and Models to Understand Biodiversity and Carbon Benefits in the Hudson-James Bay Lowlands”. This contribution supports improved knowledge and enables the application of tools, approaches, and models for assessing biodiversity, carbon-rich ecosystems (i.e., ecosystem carbon storage and sequestration), and Indigenous knowledge for the Hudson–James Bay Lowlands and other large northern landscape scale in Canada.

Applicants with a design for a remote healthcare technology concept were invited to apply to the Challenge. After competing in Stage 2 of the Challenge as a semi-finalist, the recipient was selected as a finalist for a $350,000 cash prize.

Everyone is familiar with beautiful images from the Hubble Space Telescope, but each of those covers only any part of the sky. The Euclid satellite, scheduled for launch in 2023, will make images of similar quality to those from Hubble, but over about half of the entire sky. This will enable Euclid to investigate the nature of the dark energy and dark mater, as well as to understand how galaxies evolve through the history of the Universe.

This project will enable Euclid's goals and Legacy products by combining with space-based data available at longer wavelengths.

The first goal is to characterize ground ice and glaciers on Mars at Phlegra Montes with geospatial mapping and ground penetrating radar. This supports the Canadian Space Agency's goal of locating and characterizing ground ice in Mars in preparation for future human exploration.

The second goal is to characterize two types of sediment at the rim of Valles Marineris – an tectonic rift through an ancient volcanic province. These types of sediment tell us about ancient activity of water and the ancient climate of Mars.

Both portions will use data from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, on which PI Smith is a Co-Investigator.

The Rosalind Franklin Rover PanCam instrument suite will be capable of identifying geological materials important for past microbial life—hydrated minerals. As a Co-I on the PanCam instrument team, Dr. Christy Caudill will support the mission by producing a novel hydrated mineral identification strategy and predictive model that will cross-correlate rover-derived data with orbitally derived data. Key to this model is a PanCam instrument-specific mineral toolkit combined with rover exploration strategies.

This research addresses the highest priority Planetary Geology and Geophysics, and Astrobiology objectives as defined by the Canadian planetary exploration community while supporting the science objectives of the ExoMars Rover mission.

This project aims to build an educational access program for students in Grades seven through to Grade 12, by intentionally engaging high schools that have a diverse student population, who traditionally don’t have access to these types of experiences. This project will engage over 1800 youth over the year, with each student participating in roughly 12 hours of space-themed content. The series of activities designed by the Connections team focus on many past and future Canadian space achievements such as the Canadarm, Artemis, and the Lunar Gateway. Participating students will get to create their versions of these iconic spacecrafts and through those hands-on experiences, gain a better understanding of just how much time, effort, and resources are put into these missions.