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) |
Type of Call |
| Hussameldin Ibrahim | $70,000.00 | A novel process to recover base oil and synthetic hydrocarbons from spent drilling fluids |
Enoverra Energy and Environment Canada | Mitacs Accelerate |
| Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan | $25,000.00 |
Transforming Freight Transport in Canada: Overcoming Barriers to |
International - Catalyst | |
| Jia Na | $25,000.00 | Design, Optimization and Utilization of a Micro Hydropower System for Saskatchewan Province |
International - Catalyst | |
| Christopher Somers | $280,000.00 | Maximizing the benefits of utility-scale solar power: floral and faunal responses to new infrastructure |
Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Iyuhána Solar | Alliance Advantage |
| Andrew Cameron | $525,200.00 | Geomicrobiology for detecting rare metal deposits | Mitacs, Pan American Energy Corp., Integral Metals Corp. |
Mitacs Accelerate |
| Zhanle Wang | $25,000.00 | Design, modeling and optimization of a hybrid wind-gravity energy system. | 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. | 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 | |
| Orland Hoeber | $25,000.00 | Exploratory Search for Digital Humanities: A Feasibility Study | International - Catalyst | |
| Mehran Mehrandezh | $25,000.00 | Flight Control of an Unmanned Aerial Manipulator | 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 | |
| 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 |
Preparatory funds for sustainable agriculture | |
| Zhanle Wang | $35,000.00 | Sustainable, Profitable and Net-zero Controlled Environment Agriculture (SPAN-CEA) |
Preparatory funds for sustainable agriculture | |
2022 |
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| Irfan Al-Anbagi | $25,000.00 | Internet of Things Partial Discharge Detection (PD) System | International - Catalyst | |
| Golam Kabir | $25,000.00 | Multi-dimensional Resilience Framework Development for Culvert Infrastructure Systems |
University of Regina | International - Catalyst |
| Leslie Robbins | $60,000.00 | BRiSkET - Brine Resources in Saskatchewan: Exploration Tools |
EMP Metals, Saskatchewan Geological |
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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 | |
| Jinkai Xue | $25,000.00 | Integrated methods to treat per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)-contaminated water matrices |
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. | |
| 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, |
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| Jinkai Xue | $100,000.00 | Tackling the challenge of emerging pollutants in wastewater in the Prairies: a novel granular sludge-dynamic membrane bioreactor system |
ity of Regina, QuantWave Technologies Inc. | |
2020 |
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| Kerri Finlay | $188,130.00 | Water quality in Canada: validation, interpretation, and mobilization of community-based water monitoring |
nvironment and Climate Change |
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| Howard Hamilton | $244,800.00 | Public Safety and Trust Based Systems | Corrections, Policing and Public Safety | |
| Orland Hoeber | $389,500.00 | Supporting exploratory information seeking in public digital libraries |
Regina Public Library, Sask Info & |
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| Mark Vanderwel | $20,000.00 | Forest expansion in Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park |
Alberta Environment and Parks, |
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