Grants and Contributions

Acquisition of equipment and marketing strategy: The project aims to increase the productivity and sales of a company specializing in advanced wireless communication technologies.

Acquisition of equipment: The project aims to increase productivity and the production capacity of a company specializing in designing, manufacturing, and qualification of components and integrated landing gear systems for civil and military helicopters and aircraft.

Support: The project aims to fund the implementation of Phase 2 of the City of Côte-Saint-Luc’s smart cities for aging at home project.

This project aims to empower youth to take on leadership roles in agriculture and agri-food by enhancing their capacities in innovation, science, and entrepreneurship. The activities will support the development of young leaders capable of communicating effectively within the sector and with the public, as well as provide the knowledge and skills to address emerging agricultural, agri-food, and environmental challenges with confidence and credibility.

This project aims to commercialize the PLANTIS automated system by supporting the company’s expansion of production capacity through the construction of a new building and by carrying out large-scale demonstration activities.

This project aims to purchase a greenhouse, a tractor, and small agricultural equipment to improve food security for vulnerable people.

This project aims to install automated processing and packaging equipment as well as to integrate advanced technology.

Rock chemistries and micro-textures resolvable by the Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL) instrument onboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover allow integrated rock histories to be resolved. The science objectives of this proposal focus on different rock components, including (1) igneous starting materials, (2) secondary salts and alteration products, (3) dust and coatings that accumulate at the Mars surface. Key to understanding the history is the Mineralogical make up, grain size and shape, rock cements cementing agents. This project addresses these possible contributions (dust, igneous precursor, and secondary alteration) to rock compositions analyzed by the Mars 2020 rover in Jezero Crater by micro-textural geochemical and mineralogical data. These studies will aid in achieving the Mars 2020 mission goals of assessing the Jezero rocks for potential habitability and to aid in sample selection.

Astronauts return from space with anemia but the mechanisms causing anemia are not known. During longer space missions to the Gateway, Moon or Mars, astronauts must stay safe from severe anemia. This project aims to address outstanding questions on the mechanism of space anemia. Distinctively, this project will access astronauts taking part in both private as well as space administration missions. Using cryopreserved whole blood samples collected from three international space missions, this project will investigate the subpopulation of hemolyzed red blood cells, hemoglobin gene-switching, specific red blood cell anomalies, and the dose-dependent effects of radiation on space anemia, all using state-of-the-art methods often applied for the first time to space samples.

The Artemis and Lunar Gateway programs have near-term objectives that involve conducting science/research unique to their deep space location, including investigation of the heliosphere and solar wind, space weather, as well as the Lunar plasma environment. Additionally, Canadian Space Strategy objectives include improving the understanding of solar storms and their effects on astronauts and terrestrial infrastructure. The current project aligns with these priorities and involves international collaboration via active missions at the Moon and Mars and merging of spacecraft observational data from THEMIS-Artemis and MAVEN with magnetohydrodynamic simulations using advanced data assimilation/machine learning to better predict and understand the solar wind and Lunar and Martian environments. Outcomes are expected to improve our understanding of space weather and its impact on human activity at Earth and in space.