Lab2Market Oceans / Validate Alumni

Lab2Market Oceans / Validate has had four cohorts, and is currently running its fifth iteration of the program.

2023

  • Remotely Operated Bio-inspired Additive Manufacturing Underwater Robot

  • Investigating the Influence of Trenching/Backfilling on Pipeline Response and Seabed Failure Mechanisms to Ice Gouging 

  • Build Your Own Robot-Ship – Configurable and Modular Vessels for Marine Autonomy Research and Autonomous Inspections

  • Advancing Oil Spill Detection and Real-time Monitoring using Sentinel-1 Satellite Imagery

  • Modular sun-tracking floating solar power generation platform

  • Develop a particle image/tracking velocimetry (PIV/PTV) analyzing platform 

  • Innovative Durable Marine Protective coating for Mild Steel in Marine Environment

  • Developing an AI-based modelling tool to support decision-making in iceberg tow management for the protection of subsea infrastructures, 

  • Marine Critical Parts Supply

  • Cross-sea Wave Analysis and Prediction System (CWAPS) 

  • Piezoelectric Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) energy harvesters

  • Advanced Power Electronics Converters for Ocean Wave Energy

  • NewfoundLabs Dynamics: Hydrothermal Carbonization (HTC) of Shrimp Shell Waste for Chitin Extraction 

  • Navigation Aid System to reduce environmental impact 

  • Development of highly porous bioinks from crustaceans waste 

  • Production of Organic Biostimulants from Atlantic Seaweed

  • Developing an Advanced Vessel Relocation Tool for Extending Subsea Riser’s Lifetime

  • Cloud-Based Integrated Power Management and Path Planning System for Renewable Energy Unmanned Surface Vehicles

2022

  • Small-scale mobile waste-to-energy facility with advanced plasma torch for marine ships

  • Developing a Drinking Water Filtration System for Arsenic Removal

  • Model predictive controller and monitoring systems for Marine Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS)

  • Novel aquafeed made by two microbial oils to improve stress resistance in freshwater aquaculture

  • Wind turbine interference suppression in HF-radar data

  • Shipborne Data Acquisition system for Arctic Autonomous Shipping

    Received funding from Boost to integrate new equipment into Ice Cube product to enable demonstration with key potential customers

  • UWB based Instrument Landing system for VTOL vehicles

  • Evaluation of Marine Yeast Utilization in Aquafeeds, Brewing, Baking and Pharmaceuticals Canadian Industries

  • A natural bio-based plastic derived from seaweed

    Received funding from Boost to Initiate pilot project to map Sargassum hotspot in collaboration with First Nations and technology partners, and begin development and testing to determine prototype composition with new species,

  • ML driven intelligent decision support tool for ship operations in ice

  • Intelligent recycled plastic boat, Recycling plastics in the ocean 

  • Triboelectric nanogenerators for renewable energy harvesting from the ocean

  • Conversion of underutilized sea cucumber by-product (flower) to nutrient supplements 

  • Development of Mobile and Fixed Models of Hybrid Energy Charging Station for Marine Applications and Waterfront Infrastructures

  • The Spill Management and Response Toolbox (SMART) for marine oil spill accidents

  • The cooperative planning and control of the unmanned surface vehicle and unmanned aerial vehicle

  • Sensor Fusion for Ocean Surface Wind, Wave and Current parameter Estimation

2021

  • Rapid design for novel biosensors for industrial purposes

  • Development and Preparation of Safer and Healthier Antioxidant Alternative in preventing oxidative deterioration of Marine Omega-3 Oil/Fats

  • Bioinspired Unconventional Decontamination (BUD©)

  • Development of Next-Generation Advanced Materials Cold-Spray Additive Manufacturing for Sustainable Industrial Futures

  • Mechanochemical transformation of crustacean shell waste to value-added products

  • In house vaccine production against fish pathogens (Aeromonas salmonicida and Vibrio anguillarum: Potential distribution in the market (Fish farm)

  • Potential value-added food products from invasive species European green crabs

  • Sensor development for in-situ monitoring of microplastics in water

  • Sustainable functionalized magnetic particles for efficient treatment of marine oil pollution

  • Piezoelectric-based renewable energy harvesting from ocean waves

  • Development of an effective process with aid of micro-organisms and fungus for reduction of environmentally destructive effect of spill oil toward ocean ecosystem protection.

  • Managed services for streamlined microbial community analysis

  • An enormous and stable supply of marine collagen from un-utilized Atlantic salmon resources

  • SeaDog

  • Artificial Intelligence to Support Autonomous Seabed Mapping Operations

  • Identifying impacted areas and specimens in the vicinity of sea cages using stable isotope values and fatty acid concentrations of unconsumed aquafeed

  • Improved Deep Learning Sea Ice Monitoring System

  • Smart structural control system

  • An Integrated Energy Management Tools and Life Cycle Assessment for Wastewater Treatment Facilities

  • Use of Artificial Neural Network for Predicting Power Curves of an Offshore Wind Farm in Newfoundland Using Various Training Algorithms

2020

  • Aligned rolling footgear to reduce seabed impact in the Nunavut offshore Shrimp and Turbot fishery

  • Realtime localization & Classification of moving acoustic sources using passive acoustic arrays

  • Portable monitoring of organic contaminents in Marine Environments

  • Fibre Optic Hydrophone Array for National Security

  • Sea Ice Classification for Ice Breakers

  • Ice Load Simulator for offshore wind turbine towers

  • Marine Oil Spill Tackler

  • Porous material for filtration method for ships exhaust

  • Seacucumber processing discards

  • Plasmonic Nanoparticle Mediated Desalination

  • Real-Time ocean and coastal monitoring system based on X-Band marine radar and machine learning algorithms

  • Shallow Water Autonomous Surveying Hovercraft System

  • Development of GUI for dynamic positioning of ship with an integ. control and warning system

  • Wind powered heat generator

  • Robotic Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing

  • Cost Effective Computer Simulation for the Offshore and Marine Industry