NSERC Alliance Grants Recipients
Alliance grants encourage university researchers to collaborate with partner organizations, which can be from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors. These grants support research projects led by strong, complementary, collaborative teams that will generate new knowledge and accelerate the application of research results to create benefits for Canada.
2024
PrincipalInvestigator(s) |
NSERC Funding
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Project Title |
Partner(s) |
Area of Application |
Type of Call |
| Zhanle Wang | $25,000.00 | Design, modeling and optimization of a hybrid wind-gravity energy system. | Electrical energy; Energy storage and conversion | International - Catalyst | |
| Abdul Bais | $300,000.00 | Developing Machine Learning Methods for RGB Images to Quantify Crop and Weed Populations Across Agricultural Fields | Croptimistic Technology Inc. | Crop management (pest,disease control and breeding); Information, computer and communication technologies |
Mitacs Accelerate |
| Howard Hamilton | $300,000.00 | Software Design for Forecasting Populations in Custody and Analysis of Telephone Call Metadata | Corrections, Policing and Public Safety | Information, computer and communication technologies; Computer software |
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| Orland Hoeber | $25,000.00 | Exploratory Search for Digital Humanities: A Feasibility Study | Information, computer and communication technologies; Computer software |
International - Catalyst | |
| Mehran Mehrandezh | $25,000.00 | Flight Control of an Unmanned Aerial Manipulator | Aerospace; Engineering | International - Catalyst | |
| Jinkai Xue | $50,000.00 | Can water treatment residual be useful? A preliminary investigation in the Canadian Prairies | Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant | Water; Waste, waste management and recycling | |
| Jinkai Xue | $50,000.00 | 3-D printed dynamic membrane modules for wastewater treatment and reuse | |||
2023 |
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| Kerri Finlay | $32,232.00 | Grasslands as medicine: restoration and conservation of native prairie grasslands for climate action |
Climate and atmosphere | Preparatory funds for sustainable agriculture | |
| Zhanle Wang | $35,000.00 | Sustainable, Profitable and Net-zero Controlled Environment Agriculture (SPAN-CEA) |
Agriculture and primary food production; Alternative energy resources |
Preparatory funds for sustainable agriculture | |
2022 |
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| Irfan Al-Anbagi | $25,000.00 | Internet of Things Partial Discharge Detection (PD) System | Climate and atmosphere | International - Catalyst | |
| Golam Kabir | $25,000.00 | Multi-dimensional Resilience Framework Development for Culvert Infrastructure Systems |
University of Regina | Production and operations management; Construction, transportation and communications |
International - Catalyst |
| Leslie Robbins | $60,000.00 | BRiSkET - Brine Resources in Saskatchewan: Exploration Tools |
EMP Metals, Saskatchewan Geological |
Mineral resources (prospecting, exploration, mining, extraction, processing) |
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| Christopher Somers | $50,900.00 | Climate change mitigation and adaptation: fisheries changes from phasing out coal-generated electricity |
SaskPower, University of Regina | Environmental impact of economic activities (including agriculture); Advancement of knowledge |
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| Jinkai Xue | $25,000.00 | Integrated methods to treat per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)-contaminated water matrices |
Water; Sanitary engineering | International - Catalyst | |
2021 |
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| John Stavrinides | $139,998.00 | Accelerating flax straw decomposition by harnessing natural soil microbes |
Saskatchewan Flax Development Comm. | Agriculture and primary food production; Agriculture | |
| Mark Vanderwel | $518,500.00 | Evaluating variation in the sensitivity of tree growth, mortality, and biomass allocation to climate-induced moisture stress across the western boreal forest |
Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, |
Forestry (silviculture, forest management) | |
| Jinkai Xue | $100,000.00 | Tackling the challenge of emerging pollutants in wastewater in the Prairies: a novel granular sludge-dynamic membrane bioreactor system |
City of Regina, QuantWave Technologies Inc. | Sanitary engineering; Water | |
2020 |
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| Kerri Finlay | $188,130.00 | Water quality in Canada: validation, interpretation, and mobilization of community-based water monitoring |
Environment and Climate Change |
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| Howard Hamilton | $244,800.00 | Public Safety and Trust Based Systems | Corrections, Policing and Public Safety | Information systems and technology; Advancement of knowledge | |
| Orland Hoeber | $389,500.00 | Supporting exploratory information seeking in public digital libraries |
Regina Public Library, Sask Info & |
Information, computer and communication technologies; Information systems |
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| Mark Vanderwel | $20,000.00 | Forest expansion in Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park |
Alberta Environment and Parks, |
Environment | |