Reference number : GC-2017-Q3-00814, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Sinton, David (University of Toronto), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Ontario, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Strategic Projects - Group, program name french : Projets stratégiques - groupe, program purpose english : Canadian aquaculture and agriculture will be subject to a complex mix of global change in combination with local stressors. With our combined engineering-ecological expertise we will develop and apply a platform for measuring organism and community responses to multiple environmental parameters. This work is enabled by the novel concept of an aerogel-based gas gradient generator that achieves unprecedented control of local CO2 and O2 concentration over microwells. This gas control technology will be combined with projection optics and microwell plate-based liquid handling to enable experiments with 1000+ parallel treatments for full-factorial data sets with a wide spectrum of characteristically different parameters. The 3-year deliverable is a commercialization-ready screening platform capable of quantifying the response of model microorganisms, flora, and fauna to key environmental variables. The project provides data directly relevant to Canadian aquaculture (Nova Harvest) and agriculture (POS Biosciences) and leverages Canadian product development excellence (Quorum Technologies). _x000D_
Both the method and the data produced through this project directly address the "Environment and Agriculture" target area. Specifically, we will qualify the impact of global and local anthropogenic stressors on the aquatic environment. Moreover, the technology will equip a broad range of Canadian companies to adapt agriculture and aquaculture for a changing climate. _x000D_
In close partnership with Canadian leaders aquaculture (Nova Harvest), agriculture (POS Biosciences), and device development (Quorum Technologies), this project will provide both industry-ready screening technology, and develop outstanding HQP with new tools to assess climate change impacts in Canada and worldwide., program purpose french : Canadian aquaculture and agriculture will be subject to a complex mix of global change in combination with local stressors. With our combined engineering-ecological expertise we will develop and apply a platform for measuring organism and community responses to multiple environmental parameters. This work is enabled by the novel concept of an aerogel-based gas gradient generator that achieves unprecedented control of local CO2 and O2 concentration over microwells. This gas control technology will be combined with projection optics and microwell plate-based liquid handling to enable experiments with 1000+ parallel treatments for full-factorial data sets with a wide spectrum of characteristically different parameters. The 3-year deliverable is a commercialization-ready screening platform capable of quantifying the response of model microorganisms, flora, and fauna to key environmental variables. The project provides data directly relevant to Canadian aquaculture (Nova Harvest) and agriculture (POS Biosciences) and leverages Canadian product development excellence (Quorum Technologies). _x000D_
Both the method and the data produced through this project directly address the "Environment and Agriculture" target area. Specifically, we will qualify the impact of global and local anthropogenic stressors on the aquatic environment. Moreover, the technology will equip a broad range of Canadian companies to adapt agriculture and aquaculture for a changing climate. _x000D_
In close partnership with Canadian leaders aquaculture (Nova Harvest), agriculture (POS Biosciences), and device development (Quorum Technologies), this project will provide both industry-ready screening technology, and develop outstanding HQP with new tools to assess climate change impacts in Canada and worldwide., agreement title english : 1000 individually-controlled microcosms to assess ecological impacts in Canadian ecosystems, aquaculture, and agriculture, agreement title french : 1000 individually-controlled microcosms to assess ecological impacts in Canadian ecosystems, aquaculture, and agriculture, agreement number : STPGP, agreement value : 644900.0, agreement start date : 2017-10-18, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2020-2021)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2020-2021)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada