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