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Contact: contact@assay-systems.com", "data": { "id": "ASY-CA-100NHNZ01Q", "type": "grant", "country": "ca", "name": "Governing Council of the University of Toronto: federal grants and contributions", "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/governing-council-of-the-university-of-toronto/", "summary": "65 federal grant and contribution agreements worth $39.0M with Governing Council of the University of Toronto, 2011–2025.", "figures": [ { "label": "agreements", "value": 65, "unit": "count" }, { "label": "value", "value": 39000000, "unit": "money", "currency": "CAD", "approximate": true, "display": "$39.0M" }, { "label": "departments", "value": 7, "unit": "count" }, { "label": "programs", "value": 10, "unit": "count" } ], "text": [ "The project is to support industry adoption of transformative AI technologies to contribute to a skilled and made-in-Ontario innovative economy through strategic growth and expansion of the SOSCIP consortium.", "Project CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis)", "To accelerate the decarbonization of Canada's energy grid through the commercialization and adoption of emerging green technologies.", "The objectives of the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program (YESSP) are to help all youth navigate through the labour market and to successfully transition into sustained employment. These objectives are attained by supporting the needs of all youth, especially youth facing barriers to develop skills, knowledge and networks through education, skills development and meaningful work experiences.", "This project is a demonstration of innovative solid wood products and building systems in the high-rise construction sector.", "To carry out the Government of Canada’s 2018 Nature Legacy for Canada, which includes supporting and leveraging efforts to protect and recover aquatic species at risk; and building Indigenous capacity.", "This project will collect measurements of the trace gases, aerosol particles and clouds present in the atmosphere over Eureka, Nunavut (80N, 86W) in 2025-2027 using instruments based at the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL). The campaign period will primarily focus on spring deployments each year. The measurements collected over these campaigns will be used to verify and assess the accuracy of two Canadian satellite missions that are monitoring Earth's atmosphere: the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) on SCISAT and the Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed Imager Syste", "Assessing the atmospheric transport and deposition of non-polar organic contaminants to Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW) and St. Lawrence Estuary Belugas (SLEB)", "Multimedia Environmental Modelling for Contaminants Impacting Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW) and St. Lawrence Estuary Belugas (SLEB)", "The CALASET-II project aims to design, build and test innovative instruments to measure concentrations of atmospheric trace gases as function of height. These new instruments will allow identification and quantification of specific gases, such as carbon dioxide, and help verify measurements obtained from the satellites that observe Earth's atmosphere.", "The objective of this project is to design, build and make the first engineering flight of the GigaBIT telescope, a diffraction-limited 1.3 m visible/near-UV wide field imaging telescope. This project also aims to fly and analyze data from GigaBIT's predecessor, the SuperBIT balloon borne telescope. These telescopes, by providing large images of distant galaxies, will help to probe the distribution of dark matter through distortions in space caused by gravity. It will advance the technology of optical and near-UV telescopes and pointing systems, and advance our understanding of cluster physics", "Reliable climate data is crucial for Canadians to understand how our climate is changing. The Canadian Atmospheric Laser Absorption Spectroscopy Experiment Test-bed (CALASET) aims to build a suite of instruments to verify measurements from Earth-observing satellites. It is important to ensure that these space-based instruments are performing well to produce critical climate data. The CALASET-Next Generation (CALASET-NG) project furthers this development with two main objectives: 1) develop new technologies for measuring gases in the atmosphere and provide a validation and verification capabil", "Stratospheric balloon telescopes, operating above 99.5% of the Earth's atmosphere, avoid atmospheric distortions present in terrestrial ground based telescopes, thus improving the observation of stars. The project goal is to repair and upgrade the Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) telescope to improve, in particular, star camera performance and automatic telescope focus/alignment. The SuperBIT telescope will provide large images of distant galaxies with detail comparable to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This project will pave the way for future telescopes with even gre", "Passive mercury sampler development and implementation", "Evaluation of modelled estimates against surface and satellite greenhouse gas measurements, as part of ongoing commitments to quantify uncertainties in sources and sinks in Canada", "Exploring the nature of the universe at its earliest times is one of the most exciting scientific goals in cosmology today. SPIDER is a polarimeter designed to test our most fundamental theories of the beginning of the universe by measuring or constraining the amplitude of primordial gravitational waves. SPIDER is a set of six telescopes that observe the oldest light we can see, the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation. The second stratospheric balloon flight of SPIDER will take place as part of this project, to observe the Cosmic Microwave Background polarization at three wavelengths. It wi", "Validation and interpretation of vertical column densities (VCD) measurements of air pollutants from satellite instruments", "Microplastics in Canadian Waters: Their Role in Biofilms and Contaminant Transport", "The fate of plastic additives in aquatic ecosystems and their effects on fish", "Phosphorus loading from Napanee River, Wilton Creek and their catchments", "Toronto Harbour Trash Wheel: marine litter clean-up, outreach and citizen science", "Soil Water Assessment Tool to Determine Best Management Practices in Wilton Creek and Hay Bay Watersheds", "Understanding the links between precursor pollutants, aerosol composition and health impacts", "Welcome international students from a wide range of countries and territories on a short-term study and research exchanges as part of the Emerging Leaders in the Americas and/or Study in Canada Scholarships Programs.", "Validation is crucial to the success of every satellite mission. Without validation, the ability to interpret satellite measurements for scientific studies is significantly hampered or, in some cases, rendered impossible. This is especially true for satellite missions that focus on questions of the carbon cycle. The project's objectives are to improve atmospheric trace gas retrievals from a ground-based remote sensing observatory, and to perform scientific investigations of Canadian urban greenhouse gas emissions. By combining space-based and ground-based remote sensing measurements of greenh", "Mapping indicators of oxidative stress in air using passive samplers", "Studies on spaceflights lasting more than one year have shown that, due to weightlessness, astronauts on long missions may lose as much as twenty percent of their bone mass, which leads to a significant increase in risk of fracture and other complications. Following the previous work and discovery in bone-resorbing osteoclasts and in optimizing bone cell culture in simulated microgravity, the present project aims to determine the molecular mechanism behind bone loss in astronauts. The main objectives include the grow of osteoclasts on bone surfaces in simulated microgravity, comparison of the", "The Laundry Project: Removing Chemicals of Mutual Concern from the Great Lakes", "Welcome international students from a wide range of countries and territories on a short-term study and research exchanges as part of the Emerging Leaders in the Americas and/or Study in Canada Scholarships Programs.", "Feasibility study of granular activated carbon to reduce Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) emissions from municipal wastewater treatment plants", "Global Affairs Canada’s International Scholarship Program supports the recipient to enhance the international profile of Canada as a source of quality education and create interest abroad on Canada.", "Source Track Down and Mitigating Releases of Short Chain Chlorinated Paraffins", "Assessing impacts of Neonicotinoid insecticides in agroecosystems to migratory bird pollinators, hummingbirds.", "Removal of phosphorus runoff from agricultural lands in the Napanee and Wilton Creek watersheds", "This project will support the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory (GeoCarb), a joint NASA-The University of Oklahoma collaboration. GeoCarb will provide daily mapping of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), carbon monoxide (CO), and solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) over the Americas. This mapping capability is truly unprecedented and therefore requires improved satellite validation methods and modeling. This project will provide support to GeoCarb for satellite validation and modernize the atmospheric models needed to respond to and prepare for these new and exciting challenges.", "Field measurements in support of improved ammonia (NH3) deposition estimates" ], "records": [ { "name": "grants and contributions register", "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/" }, { "name": "Scarborough–Rouge Park", "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/riding/35097-scarborough-rouge-park/" }, { "name": "Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario", "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/federal-economic-development-agency-for-southern-ontario/" }, { "name": "Sudbury East—Manitoulin—Nickel Belt", "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/riding/35104-sudbury-east-manitoulin-nickel-belt/" }, { "name": "Environment and Climate Change Canada", "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/environment-and-climate-change-canada/" }, { "name": "York Centre", "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/riding/35118-york-centre/" }, { "name": "Employment and Social Development Canada", "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/employment-and-social-development-canada/" }, { "name": "University–Rosedale", "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/riding/35110-university-rosedale/" }, { "name": "Natural Resources Canada", "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/natural-resources-canada/" }, { "name": "Fisheries and Oceans Canada", "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/fisheries-and-oceans-canada/" }, { "name": "Canadian Space Agency", "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/canadian-space-agency/" }, { "name": "Global Affairs Canada", "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/global-affairs-canada/" }, { "name": "Brampton East", "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/riding/35011-brampton-east/" } ], "assay_record": "ASY-CA-100NHNZ01Q", "cite_as": "Assay Systems, \"Governing Council of the University of Toronto: federal grants and contributions\", https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/governing-council-of-the-university-of-toronto/" } }