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
Previous Seed Fund recipients
Phase VIII
A High-Performance Oil-Free Electric-based Gyroscopic Stabilizer for Marine Vessels: Development of a Seed Prototype
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
Biosurveillance of MSX and other oyster diseases in the Bras d’Or Lakes: Establishment of an end-to-end platform for rapid on-site detection of known oyster parasites from environmental DNA (eDNA)
Development of an ultra-sensitive environmental DNA marker for detection of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) at low abundance in freshwater and marine environments
Understanding perceptions of blue economy careers among today’s youth: a comparative analysis between Nova Scotia and a West African Small Island Developing State
Biodegradable plastic production by the novel marine heterotrophic diazotroph Candidatus Thalassolituus halegoni isolated from the coastal waters of Nova Scotia
Heart Healthy Salmon: Assessment of polar lipid extracts from farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) for the development of cardioprotective nutraceuticals
Testing an industrial vessel of opportunity model for ship-time access to survey Canadian Arctic gateway ecosystems using baited remote underwater video
Development of Methods for Iodine Speciation Measurement Toward Better Understanding of Iodine Impacts on Climate, Aquaculture and Health (Co-applicants Qiang Shi & Doug Wallace)
Planning for an ocean sensing strategy in 4D: moving from expensive "labs-on-the-ocean" toward vast networks of inexpensive "lab-on-a-chip" enabled drones
Towards a better understanding of carbon cycling and sequestration: Quantifying sinking carbon in the Bedford Basin and beyond (co-applicant Stephanie Kienast)
Revisiting the pressure effect on the carbonate system equilibrium: towards in situ measurements and quality control of pCO2 and pH sensors' data on gliders, floats and moorings