Grants and Contributions

This contribution supports the publication by the Coast Salish Arts and Cultural Society of a book called We Are Kwantlen, that celebrates the fullness of modern Kwantlen life and its deep connections with ancestral lands and waters. A celebratory book launch event will be held at Fort Langley National Historic Site.

Restore the exterior of the World's Largest Dinosaur in Drumheller

The overarching objective of the drug-impaired driving project is to protect public safety on roadways in Canada by equipping law enforcement with the training, tools and technology necessary to enforce new and existing drug-impaired driving legislation, and to deter drug-impaired driving through research, public awareness and the development of evidence-based policies.

The Canadian Criminal Justice Association (CCJA) is a national organization comprised of more than 400 members across Canada. The CCJA represents all elements of the criminal justice system, including the public. The organization promotes rational, informed and responsible debate in order to develop a more humane, equitable and effective criminal justice system in Canada. Through its many initiatives, the CCJA provides information and education on justice issues.

CCJA’s target population is the public, criminal justice participants and concerned observers.

Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime (CRCV) is a national organization that offers support, research and education to survivors of crime and to stakeholders across Canada. The organization campaigns broadly for victim’s rights by presenting the interests and perspectives of victims of crime to all levels of government.

CRCVC’s target population is the general Canadian public with a focus on those victimized by crime.

This project enhances women’s economic well-being in the agribusiness sector in two governorates of Upper Egypt. It focuses on advancing women’s economic empowerment by establishing women-led agribusinesses and partnerships with private sector companies. It aims to improve work environments for women and gender-responsiveness of the Government of Egypt’s labour policies and regulations. Project activities include: (1) increasing access to growth-oriented and environmentally sustainable agribusiness opportunities for women entrepreneurs; (2) providing business management, technical and entrepreneurial training and health services to beneficiaries; (3) engaging with local leaders and influences to challenge stereotypes related to gender equality; (4) supporting new and existing enterprises and strengthening women’s entrepreneurship networks; (5) working with local companies to adopt gender-responsive policies and workplace models in their operations; and (6) increasing the capacity of public institutions to mainstream gender into national policies and strategies that address barriers to women’s access and control over economic benefits, particularly those related to agribusiness. This project expects to benefit 6500 direct beneficiaries, 342 intermediaries, and 22,225 (10,898 women and 11,327 men) indirect beneficiaries.

CSA SMUG - SELF-MOTION UNDER GRAVITY
When humans move from the normal constant one gravity environment found on earth a range of different perceptual systems must operate under unusual conditions resulting the systematic errors in fundamental measures including the perception of self-motion. Understanding how humans integrate cues to their self-motion under such circumstances is critical for humans to operate safely and effectively off earth. In collaboration with German partners and the DLR, the CSASMUG project is building a model of how humans integrate gravity and other cues to estimate their self-motion and is developing countermeasures and display technology based on this model.

UNDERSTANDING RELATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS OF FLUID FLOW AND MECHANICAL STRAIN TO BONE ADAPTATION IN ALTERED GRAVITY.
Bone loss in astronauts is a major challenge for long-duration space exploration. In weightlessness, muscles are used less often, thus providing less stimulation of bone. Microgravity also induces fluid shift from the lower body towards the head, the role of which in bone loss is unclear. We aim to develop imaging, computational and pharmacological tools to examine contributions of fluid flow and mechanical strain to bone adaptation to mechanical environment using mouse models of mechanical loading and immobilization-induced unloading. Understanding the links between microgravity and bone adaptation will help to prevent bone loss in long-duration human space flights.

The need for ionospheric measurement is especially important in Auroral and Polar regions where the ionosphere is turbulent and contains unique features to be studied. An ionosonde is a radar designed to sound the ionosphere. The radar transmits radio waves and listens for corresponding echoes from the ionosphere.

The project is aimed toward the development of a low power high frequency (HF) radar system, intended for flexible deployments in hostile and remote environments such as Spacecraft and Arctic locations. More specifically, results could have potential impacts on improvements in our understanding of solar-terrestrial interactions in the Canadian Arctic and technological advances in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS).

A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an airborne or space-borne radar enabling the generation of high-resolution remote sensing imagery. The project's overall purpose is to develop a novel ground and airborne sensor technology, and to provide major leverage to highly qualified personnel (HQP) trainees' research on enhancing Arctic land and planetary applications of space borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR).

The main objectives are developing and evaluating the novel technology and deriving models to retrieve soil and snow structure parameters, and surface displacement over permafrost. Technology development includes an experimental miniature airborne SAR, and a novel ground sensor configuration to measure the permafrost's active layer's seasonal motion under snow cover.