Previously Awarded Seed Fund Projects
List of all completed and ongoing Seed Fund projects that have been received
Overview
Latest Recipients
Past Recipients
Extension Grants
Apply

Congratulations to our latest Seed Fund award recipients. A total of 20 Seed Funds were awarded to help support ocean-related projects that offer high potential for innovation success.

A High-Performance Oil-Free Electric-based Gyroscopic Stabilizer for Marine Vessels: Development of a Seed Prototype

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Mohammad Al Janaideh

Aligning scholarly and public understanding of ocean knowledge: an assessment based on the UN Second World Ocean Assessment Report

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Rémi Toupin and Dr. Philippe Mongeon

An experimental facility for the characterization of mobile underwater communication networks

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Jean-François Bousquet

Aquaculture for regional resilience beyond industrial diversification

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Shuna Ho

Assessing impacts of ocean climate variability on a key marine calcifier in the Northwest Atlantic

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Kris Poduska and Dr. Patrick Gagnon

Can Microbial Fuel Cells Remove Mal Odour Compounds from Recirculating Aquaculture Systems?

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Chris Algar

Developing an advanced IoT prototype to monitor the coastal ecosystems surrounding indigenous communities

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Hung Cao and Dr. Ian Church

Developing effective strategies for reducing ice accretion and de-icing of offshore wind turbine rotor blades

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Baafour Nyantekyi-Kwakye

Development of novel hidden Markov models to identify fish productivity regimes and forecast future productivity and fisheries management targets

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Nan Zheng

Digital Twinning Marine Ecosystems Around Aquaculture and IMTA Systems

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Andy Simoneau

Duo Photo/Electro-Thermal Water Desalination for Remote Coastal Communities

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Heather Buckley and Kirsten Aasen

Enhancing phytoplankton production of the essential omega-3 fatty acid eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) by manipulation of co-occurring bacteria

Principal Investigator:
Christine Latimer and Dr. Hugh MacIntyre

Environmentally friendly snow crab pot design: improving sorting of undersized crabs and increasing catch efficiency

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Tomas Araya-Schmidt

Human machine conflict resolution in marine autonomous surface ships

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Syed Imtiaz

Impact of fishing vessel nocturnal activity on the presence of Leach’s Storm-petrel in harbours

Principal Investigator:
Fiona Le Taro and Dr. Paul-Pierre Bitton

Improving the reliability, cost-efficiency, and overall success of kelp seed production in Nova Scotia

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Carly Buchwald

Machine Learning of the Ocean’s Equatorial Deep Circulation

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Joseph Fitzgerald

Machine Learning-based Optimization for Placement and Control of Buoys in Wave Energy Conversion

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Hamid Usefi

Nature-based Solution to Coastal Remediation in Boat Harbour, NS

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Ramon Filgueira

Near surface turbulence and bubbles in the Labrador Sea from an autonomous underwater vehicle

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Ruth Musgrave and Dr. Dariia Atamanchuk

North Atlantic right whale prey field sampling close to the seafloor

Principal Investigator:
Jay Kirkham and Dr. Sarah Fortune

Novel application of food processing technique for preservation of fresh sea cucumber qualities

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Deepika Dave

Population demographics and bioenergetics of the elusive Greenland shark in the Saguenay Fjord

Principal Investigator:
Dr. David Deslauriers

SMART-HAB: Satellite imagery-based Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Tool for Harmful Algal Bloom Detection

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Christopher Whidden

Seismic Sentinels: Monitoring Earthquakes and Whales in the Lower St. Lawrence Seaway

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Miao Zhang

Towards a holistically superior analysis of next-generation sustainable aquafeeds on fish immune responses

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Albert Solares Caballero and Dr. Matt Rise

Towards a quantitative metabarcoding approach for eDNA-based environmental assessment of whole ecosystems

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Julie LaRoche

Turning Atlantic Cod fish collagen waste into microfibers for tissue engineering applications

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Laurent Kreplak and Dr. John Frampton

UV/Nanobubble Treatment as a Novel Alternative to Mitigate Taste and Odour Compounds in Recirculating Aquaculture Systems

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Graham Gagnon, Jessica Bennett, and Dr. Stefanie Colombo

Upscaling through field trial of a novel high-entropy alloy thin coating solution for marine anti-fouling problem

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Gobinda Saha and Dr. Clodualdo Aranas

Bringing together researchers, industry and government to solve complex ocean problems

Halifax Office

Dalhousie University
Steele Ocean Sciences Building
6375 Edzell Castle Circle
P.O. Box 15000
Halifax, NS  Canada
B3H 4R2
1.902.494.8823

St. John's Office

Memorial University
Alexander Murray Building
Room ER 2003
St. John's, NL  Canada
A1B 3X5
1.709.864.3773

Impact

Programs

Funding

Research

About

X@OceanFrontier
TwitterYouTube
LinkedInLinkedIn
FacebookFacebook

Subscribe to our newsletter

Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.

Dalhousie University is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq. We are all Treaty people.

We acknowledge that the lands on which Memorial University’s campuses are situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of this province.