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Developing a toolset to evaluate carbon sequestration in New Brunswick mudflats

December 2023 – March 2025

Mudflats are a globally common intertidal ecosystem, typically located seaward of salt marshes and beaches.

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Sustainable Hydrogen Generation Using Novel Heterogeneous Nanocomposites

December 2023 – March 2025

Green chemical pathways are indeed desirable in alternative fuel generation. Solar, wind and hydrogen (H2)-derived methods afford a means of capitalizing on environmentally advantageous resources that limit GHG emissions during power-generation.

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IoT-Driven Modeling System for Monitoring Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Canadian Agriculture Sector

December 2023 – March 2025

"Agriculture significantly fuels anthropogenic global warming and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions could play a significant role in mitigating climate change. In 2020, agriculture contributed about 8.2% (55 Mt CO2 eq) to Canada's total GHG emissions.

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Advancement of Net-Zero Marine Technologies: Development of Long-lifetime Battery Prototype with Vessel-to-Grid (V2G) Functionality for Electric Marine Transportation in Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada

December 2023 – March 2025

Specifically, the project aims to:

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Novel high-performance opto-chromic sensing technology for visible detection of hydrogen leaks in pipelines and storage

December 2023 – March 2025

Hydrogen is a high-in-demand carbon-free alternative to fossil fuels. However, the low heat of combustion and flammability of hydrogen, compounded by lack of odor, endanger storage and transportation.

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Quantifying Emissions Reductions in Ships with Crowdsourced Weather Routing

December 2023 – March 2025

90% of the world's goods are transported by ships, which run on fossil fuel. This creates more greenhouse gas emissions than airlines.

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Development of a regionally validated mid-infrared soil spectral library and predictive models to enable efficient, accurate and low-cost characterization of soil carbon content and sequestration potential in Nova Scotia agricultural and forest soils

September 2023 – March 2025

Drawing upon existing and new agriculture and forestry soil collections acquired from diverse project partners (NSFA, NRCan, NSDA, OMAFRA, IRDA), this project will characterize soil organic carbon (SOC) content and storage potential, as influenced by inherent soil properties (e.g., soil texture)

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Reducing Greenhouse Gases and Improving the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Nova Scotia’s Wild Blueberry Industry

September 2023 – March 2025

Bragg Lumber Company is a Nova Scotia based food production and forestry company.  The company focuses on wild blueberry and carrot production.  The company owns or leases 48,000 acres of commercial fields and provides custom farm operations for an additional 10,000 acres of wild bluebe

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Exploring pathways to net-zero: utilizing advanced energy system modelling to investigate the impact of long-duration energy storage on Nova Scotia's energy transition

September 2023 – March 2025

This research project seeks to determine the potential role of long-duration energy storage in achieving a decarbonized electricity system in Nova Scotia by 2050.

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Characterizing barriers to and opportunities for achieving pro-climate behaviours in Atlantic Canada

January 2023 – March 2025

Reducing emissions by changing how we act

Determining critical behavioural interventions for enabling an effective transition to net-zero emissions in Atlantic Canada’ is a multi-year research project being led by