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.

Constraining the Northwest Atlantic carbon sink using a warm climate analog

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Anastasia Zhuravleva

Use of mussel gaping behaviour as a toxin early warning system

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Réjean Tremblay

A submersible, autonomous total alkalinity sensor for evaluating oceanic carbon uptake

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Colin Sonnichsen

Developing sustainable artisanal diets to improve performance in a commercial shrimp production farm in Cabo Verde

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Chris Parrish

New Integrated Design Approach for Wharves in Nova Scotia to Meet 2050 Target GHG Emissions Set by the Environmental Goals and Climate Change Reduction Ac

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Fadi Oudah

Weaving different ways of knowing for community-based monitoring and forecasting in social-ecological coastal systems

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Fanny Noisette

Assessing the effects of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) on the marine microbiome

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Julie Laroche

Development of a novel, RT-RPA coupled CRISPR-Cas12a-based “point-of harvest” assay for marine vesivirus genetic material in seal products.

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Frederick S. B. Kibenge

Assessing Natural Solutions to Rapid Loss of Coastline, Cultural Sites, and Keystone-Species Habitat in Nunatsiavut

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Emma Harrison

Unraveling the effects of long-chain omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids on salmon health

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Mohamed Emam

Exploration and Preservation of the Nutritional Value and Bioactive Compounds of Atlantic Seaweed Species

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Deepika Dave

Understanding ecosystem services trade-offs around dykeland futures: a pilot using Bayesian Networks

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Lara Cornejo

Dealing with disease/stress in aquaculture: let salmon cells define nutritional needs

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Albert Caballero-Solares

Designing safer marine coatings for biofouling prevention: addressing reversible and irreversible damages with new materials

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Heather Buckley

Population age-structure of the Atlantic puffin as a North Atlantic wide population health assessment tool

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Pierre-Paul Bitton

A Two-Eyed Seeing Evaluation of the DFO (Maritimes Region) ecosystem-Based Management Framework Applied to Treaty Fisheries Implementation

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Megan Bailey

Diversity of Nature: BIPOC-led Ocean Outreach

Principal Investigator:
Suchinta Arif

A "Seed" for Autonomous Ship-to-Ship Crane System

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Mohammad Al Janaideh

Ocean Waves to Power Monitoring Buoys

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Mohammad Al Janaideh

"Green" biomass-based adsorbents for wastewater treatment

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Sara Ahmadkelayeh