| Project |
Intent of Project |
Funding Amount |
| Research and analysis of industrial activities and parameters affecting greenhouse gas emissions (Canadian Industrial Energy End-Use Data and Analysis Centre at Simon Fraser University) |
To improve the quality of greenhouse gas estimates for key Canadian industrial sectors, and understanding of their technological drivers. This work will support Canada’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory, which is submitted annually to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and supports the assessment of Canada’s progress towards its emission reduction commitments. |
$150,000 |
| Method development to provide spatially resolved atmospheric mercury concentration data in the Arctic (University of Toronto) |
To advance the development of sampling methods to allow for greater spatial coverage of mercury levels in the air over Canada, particularly for unique cold Arctic conditions where conventional methods are expensive to operate and required access to infrastructure and electricity is limited. This work will support assessment of the success of mercury emission reduction strategies. |
$124,800 |
| Greater Toronto Area land use regression (University of Toronto) |
To advance the understanding of how air pollutant sources, including transportation, affect the air quality in the Greater Toronto Area. This work will lay the foundation for monitoring future changes. |
$120,000 |
| Black carboncardiovascular effects (University of Toronto) |
The research will lead to new, unique data on black carbon’s effects on health, and help to better understand the air quality/health co-benefits of lowering black carbon levels. |
$25,000 |
| Chemical characterization of organic aerosol emissions for modeling regional air quality (University of Toronto) |
To generate laboratory and field data that can be used to improve emission inventories of food cooking emissions for the Greater Toronto Area. |
$66,000 |
| Development of a tropospheric ozone chemistry scheme for Earth system models (University of Toronto) |
To improve the understanding of the role of tropospheric ozone in climate and ways in which these processes can be included in climate models. This work will improve the robustness of model projections for future climate conditions. |
$160,000 |
| Improving North American carbon flux estimates through assimilation of satellite and surface observations (University of Toronto) |
To support determination of carbon dioxide (CO2) sources and sinks, and assessment of uncertainties in integrating satellite and surface observations of atmospheric CO2. This is a valuable approach for quantifying and monitoring carbon dioxide fluxes and complementary to methods used in the national emission inventory reporting framework characterizing greenhouse gas sources and sinks. |
$150,000 |
| Characterization of emission uncertainties through the development of an emission uncertainty inventory framework (Carleton University) |
To advance chemical data assimilation to inform the development of a framework for a wide range of applications in air quality modeling, including provision of emission uncertainty estimates. |
$225,000 |
| Understanding biogeochemical processes of mercury (University of Waterloo) |
To advance understanding of the biogeochemical processes of mercury in terrestrial and aquatic systems, as the behaviour and movement of mercury in ecosystems are complex and vary geographically. This information could be used to advance modeling capacity related to the transport and fate of mercury through the ecosystem. |
$120,000 |
| Montreal land use regression (Royal Institute for the Advancement of Learning/McGill University) |
To advance understanding of air quality model variations. This information would help the development of exposure models that can be used to better understand how the sources in Montreal are influencing air quality and health. |
$30,000 |
| Greenhouse gas emissions from organic muck soils under vegetable crop production in Canada (Royal Institute for the Advancement of Learning/McGill University) |
To investigate emissions and controls of greenhouse gas emissions from cultivated organic muck soils in the Holland Marsh region of southern Ontario. This work will improve knowledge of the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions from these soils and their major controlling factors, as well as their climate mitigation potential. |
$73,000 |
| Aerosol-microphysics interaction through ice nucleation and its role in weather-air quality/climate-air quality systems using EC’s Global Environmental Multi-scale Modeling Air Quality and Chemistry Model (Université du Québec à Montréal) |
To allow aerosols and ice nucleation to be better represented in the air quality model. This work will contribute to an improved model, which can be used to assess the role of interactions between aerosol and dynamics in weather-air quality and climate-air quality systems in the Arctic and cold season environments. |
$100,000 |
| Algorithm development for satellite NO2 retrieval in the upper troposphere and stratosphere for improved surface air quality monitoring (University of Saskatchewan) |
To improve satellite retrievals of nitrogen dioxide data in the upper troposphere and stratosphere. The project will lead to improved information on surface air quality from satellites, further enhancing the ability to monitor and predict air quality. |
$100,000 |
