Climate change is predicted to affect all Canadians as a result of its impact on their environment, health and economy. As companies and individuals across the country work to consume less energy and minimize their carbon footprint, Canada’s new green technology sector grows year-over-year while developing the next generation of sustainable products and services. MITACS projects teams in this theme are mathematically modelling climate change to further our understanding of its impacts, working with the aerospace industry to design more efficient aircraft and developing new hydrological forecasting systems to maximize hydropower production and minimize flood risk.
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Project Type: Past
Dr. Gary F. Margrave, & Dr. Michael Lamoureux, University of Calgary
This project responds to the need for more precise tools to help oil and gas companies better understand where undiscovered energy reserves lie deep within the earth, and to manage and utilize existing reserves.
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Project Type: Past
Dr. Laxmi Sushama, Université du Québec à Montréal
Anthropogenic (or human caused) climate change is one of the main environmental threats facing the Earth today. The ability to make accurate estimates of future climate conditions is a necessity for governments, ecosystem planners and large businesses.
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Project Type: Past
Dr. Martin Guay, Queen’s University
The long-term objective of this research is to provide building owners and designers with new analysis and control techniques and tools that can assist them in the design of sustainable building energy management systems for commercial, institutional and residential buildings.
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Project Type: Past
Dr. Paul Myers , University of Alberta
The goal of this project was to improve existing unstructured ocean models to better predict oceanic behaviour and its variability for the oceanic regions around Canada.
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Project Type: Past
Raymond Spiteri , University of Saskatchewan
This project team designed, implemented and assessed new and innovative techniques to improve the efficiency and predictive power of our simulations, hence increasing our understanding of the flow of fluid and gas.