OFI partnered with Canada's Ocean Supercluster and Innovacorp in Round 4 of the OFI Seed Fund.
OFI partnered with Canada's Ocean Supercluster to fund the following:
Active Projects:
- Mike Smit and Christina Macdonald - Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ocean Observing: Exploring the Potential for Partnership in Atlantic Canada
Completed Projects:
- Hansen Johnson - Development of a Whale Aerial Sampling Platform (WASP)
- Israat Haque - A Programmable and Efficient Underwater Internet of Things (uiOt) to Measure Ocean Dynamics
OFI partnered with Innovacorp to fund the following:
Completed Projects:
- Julie LaRoche - Design and application of environmental-gene panels targeting aquatic and marine microbes: Proof of concept with 48 gene targets
- Anneke ten Doeschate - Ocean Turbulence During High Wind Conditions on the Scotian Shelf
OFI funded the following:
DAL
Active Projects:
- Mab Speelman - Reducing Bacterial Contamination of Mixotrophic Algal Cultures through Differential Treatment with UVC
- Jessica Bennett - Evaluating Emerging Ultraviolet Technologies for Novel Disinfection Treatment Systems in Open Net-pen Salmon Aquaculture
Completed Projects:
- Owen Sherwood - Understanding the nitrogen isotope biogeochemistry of sewage wastewater for use as bioindicators in the marine environment
- David Barclay - Passive acoustic detection and monitoring of hydrothermal vents [Active]
- David Barclay - Autonomous hovercraft for acoustic monitoring of tidal energy devices
- Mita Dasog - Solar Desalination using Plasmonic Interfaces
- Elizabeth Glithero - Building a National Ocean Literacy Strategy
- Sara Seck - Women of the Arctic Ocean:Exploring the Intersection of Gender, Indigeneity and the Law of the Sea in the Canadian Arctic
MUN
Active Projects:
- Ali Nasiri - Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing for Improved Safety and Service Life in Harsh Marine Environment
Completed Projects:
- Oscar De Silva - Deep Learning for Sea Ice Image Semantic Segmentation
- Shannon Bayse - Using luminescent twine to improve conservation goals in the Canadian snow crab pot fishery
- Surendra Kumar - Omics approaches for prevention and control of infectious disease in cleaner fish using blood derived exosomes
- Joost Verhoeven - Development of a rapid, low-cost method for the discovery and surveillance of viruses at the land-sea surface
- Max Liboiron - Movement of microplastics from land to sea in an urban waterway in St. John’s Newfoundland