Follow along for updates on current funding opportunities, upcoming events, award recipients, and researcher stories that highlight the research taking place in Nova Scotia.
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Clean Marine Propulsion Lab Coming to NSCC
This story originally appeared on NSCC’s website and has been republished with their permission. Envision a future where boats that serve inland coastal operations, inshore fisheries, aquaculture, tourism, marine research, the Navy, and the Coast Guard are cheaper to operate, quieter and less polluting. That’s the goal for the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) Clean Marine Propulsion… Read more
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Data Access: Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) is a large, national research platform on health and aging allowing researchers to answer critical questions on the biological, medical, psychological, social, lifestyle and economic aspects of aging, disability and disease. The long-term, national study follows approximately 50,000 individuals between the ages of 45-85. Researchers can apply to… Read more
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Canada-U.S. team looks to genomics to guide North Atlantic right whale conservation
The number of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales continues to be buffeted by high mortality rates from vessel strikes, fishing gear entanglements, and by a low rate of reproduction. There is now estimated to be fewer than 400 individuals left, including less than 100 breeding females. Read more
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Call for Applications: CSPC 2021 Awards of Excellence
Science and Innovation Policy Award Applications and Nominations are Open Now! Read more
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Study suggests a future for medical-grade pulp production in Nova Scotia
Last spring, a team of chemists at Saint Mary’s University collaborated with Port Hawkesbury Paper in hopes of developing a home-grown solution to the global shortage of N95 respirators masks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Results from the study suggest the Nova Scotia pulp and paper industry may have a future in the production of… Read more
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NSERC Discovery Horizons grants
NSERC has launched a pilot funding opportunity to support investigator-initiated individual and team projects that broadly integrate or transcend disciplines to advance knowledge in the natural sciences and engineering (NSE). Full applications submitted to this NSERC program will be reviewed by the new tri-agency interdisciplinary peer review committee. Discovery Horizons grants are expected to be… Read more
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