Previously Awarded Seed Fund Projects
List of all completed and ongoing Seed Fund projects that have been received

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