All Research Projects
Climate Change Problem-Solution Respondents
November 2019 to July 2020
We set out to investigate if there is a need for a solution that gives citizens personalized help preparing for and recovering from climate change impacts and lets trusted authorities assist them and track the results.
SAO1 Design and build a new WordPress self-hosted website for hosting and organizing the annual Space Apps Ottawa hackathon
Create an open source self-hosted (not WordPress.com) WordPress website to help us host and manage the annual Space Apps Ottawa hackathon.
Capella University
IT4990 – Capstone
CC2 Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) recommendations for building a new Web Application
We wish to determine the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment processes and tool(s) we should use to support the development & deployment of a new web application.
Capella University
CC3 Recommend features and content for a Climate Change Impact Planning software product
Recommend features and content for a climate change impact planning software product that will produce a set of climate change impact reports in a given geographical area.
DeGroote School of Business, McMaster
SAO2 Design and build a new Android mobile app for participants of the annual Space Apps Ottawa hackathon
McNeese State University
CC11 Business Case for Identifying and Predicting Climate Change Impacts using satellite Earth Observation images, big data sets, and machine learning
Help research and document a business opportunity for a new climate change impact software product.
The analysis will be used as justification to commit further corporate resources and focus, and serve as backgrounder for investments and fundraising.
RMIT University
CC5 Prototype Zoom Virtual Meeting Feature for a Climate Change Impact Software Product
Tarleton State University
CC6 Design Training Program to help Riipen students who are contributing to our Climate Change Impact Planning software product
We are working extensively with students using the Riipen platform. Design a training and onboarding process and tools for us to use when students start a new project.
Saskatchewan Polytechnic
CC7 Extract guidance and actions from Climate Change documents using Machine Learning
Using machine learning, extract actionable climate change tasks and guidance from published PDF files.
University of Toronto
CC4 Customer Personas and High Level Requirements for a new Climate Change Impact Software Product
Utah Valley University
DSS3 Create HR Job Description & On-boarding Materials for Junior Sales/Marketer Role
2020-07-21 to 2020-12-07
We are planning on hiring a co-op or part-time student in a junior Sales/Marketing role in late 2020/early 2021. We need help creating HR Job Descriptions & On-boarding Materials for this role.
Lethbridge College
BUS 2298
CC12 Gamification Study and Recommendations for Climate Change Impact Software
Design a gamification model to encourage citizens to take action to prepare for, avoid, mitigate, and recover from climate change impacts.
Capella University
CC13 Gamification Business Case for Climate Change Impact Software
Would a gamification feature increase citizen adoption and use of a climate change software product? Is there a business case for including one?
University of Toronto
CC14 Prototype search application to index climate-change and environmental websites using structured metadata, and display the results
Arizona State University
CC16 Branding work for online Climate Change Impact portal
Help us come up with a high level branding strategy and design approach for a climate change product.
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
CC19 Extract guidance and actions from Climate Change documents using Machine Learning
2020-05-26 to 2020-08-14
Expand on the initial machine learning prototype to increase the accuracy and capabilities of an algorithm that extracts climate action guidance from published PDFs.
University at Albany, SUNY
CC18 Marketing Campaign Plan to enlist Local Citizens/NGOs/Municipal Governments in Canada for a Climate Change Impact software prototype
2020-05-04 to 2020-07-26
We need to enlist local citizens/NGO’s/municipal governments in a one or two Canadian regions to help evaluate the climate change prototype. Help us create a modern and creative marketing plan to communicate, sign up, and engage with them
McMaster Centre for Continuing Education
CC1 Marketing Campaign Plan to enlist Local Citizens/NGOs/Municipal Governments in Canada for a Climate Change Impact software prototype
2019-07-11 to 2019-10-08
Research and define an initial branding goals, strategy, and guidelines for a new climate change impact software product.
ACCES Employment with Humber College
Sales & Marketing Connections & Insights
CC10 Canadian Market Opportunity and Business Model Analysis for a Climate Change Impact Content Portal
Investigate the Canadian market opportunity and business model for a potential new product offering: a content aggregator portal related to climate change.
Queen's University
DSS-02 Design On-boarding Process and Plan for New Remote Hires
2021-01-06 to 2021-04-09
Your contribution will directly define how our company handles the first few days and months of a new employee’s experience to ensure high job satisfaction, effective work habits, and long-term retention.
Durham College
FWKH 6202: Human Resources Student Placements
CC-20 Recommend a "trust and collaboration framework" for a climate change application
2021-01-05 to 2021-04-12
Please research and recommend a “trust and collaboration framework” – a set of processes that we can use to identify and verify the “trusted authorities” and the recommended actions they provide.
Ontario Tech University
INFR4611U: Recommend a “Trust and Collaboration Framework” for a Climate Change Application
DSS5 Administrative Services: Virtual Interns
2021-05–03 to 2021-05-28
Help us create data sets by researching open data sets from around the world, web page publishing and document management. Curate research work into presentable and readable formats for online publishing, update our CRM contact lists.
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
PRCT 365 : AIM Practicum
CC21 Citizen Science observations for flooding - design concepts and ideation
2021-05-07 to 2021-06-18
Brainstorm the community science observation/ web app design and functionality, and the way in which community scientists can send observations to trusted authorities and receive information from them.
Ontario Tech University
Design Thinking
CC22 Citizen Science observations for flooding - Creating prototype wireframe design
2021-07-02 to 2021-08-17
Create low-fidelity wireframes for the citizen science feature and pages, detailing how citizen scientists will submit photos and other “ground truth” observations to the Trusted Authorities, during /after floods -> send them to trusted authorities for review -> allow trusted authorities to review and respond to them.
Ontario Tech University
BUSI 4996U: Internship
CC38 Recommend feature & design changes to our prototype to help with forest fires
2022-03-10 to 2022-04-22
The SAIT Applied UX Design / Product Management students applied creative thinking and design thinking methodology in exploring the functionality modifications needed to extend our citizen science prototype focused on floods, to help during a wildfire disaster. They continuously suggested new ideas to the project which produced results of exceptional quality.
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
SAIT Applied UX Design / Product Management
CC26 Design a web/video tutorial to help Citizen Scientists use our web prototype
2022-02-15 to 2022-04-11
We would like to have a short web tutorial/video created to help “citizen scientists” safely take and upload observations during or after a flood.
Concordia University
ETEC 681
CC36 Define the training requirements for citizen scientist web app users
2022-02-15 to 2022-04-18
We intend to train “citizen scientists” (users) on safely taking and submitting flood disaster observations using our citizen science web application prototype. What is the best approach and method to conduct the training?
Concordia University
ETEC 681 : Designing online training / learning experiences
CC23 AWS SageMaker + Climate Change Data Registry
2021-09-20 to 2022-04-29
We would like you to use AWS SageMaker and other AI/ML techniques on our own data registry to explore patterns in the data sets. Help us extract information we can use to prepare or improve our YAML files. We should be able to find new data sets, that are not currently in YAML, and produce useful metadata from them. Ideally, we could scan a new dataset and output the results in a YAML file.
Arizona State University
Software engineering capstone project
CC34 Citizen science badge/gamification incentives
2022-03-03 to 2022-04-28
We would like you to research gamification concepts and systems and then propose a gamification system to suit our application (ex points or badges for safely taking and sharing observations or photos during or after a flood disaster).
Lakehead University
ED 5712 :Climate Change Education
CC33 Recommend feature & design changes to our prototype to help with forest fires
2022-02-04 to 2022-04-20
We would like you to explore and document any recommendations and functionality/design modifications needed to extend our citizen science prototype, focused on floods, to help during a different type of disaster: Forest fires. We will provide screenshots and demos of our current flood prototype to help you understand and research any needed modifications.
Ohio University
MIS 4800 : Business IT Analysis and Consulting
DSS7 Virtual Interns assisting with Data Entry
2022-05-02 to 2022-05-27
As part of their practicum, the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology students worked closely with us to complete business function tasks which included researching land classification categories in different cities and land classification standards, gathering flood photos with Exif metadata from recent disasters, reviewing citizen science techniques and data, and creating data schemas on frictionless data
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
PRCT 365 Course
CC8 Design and build a new WordPress self-hosted website for a Climate Change product
2020-01-01 to 2020-06-04
The DePaul students helped us by producing a WordPress site using BeaverBuilder theme and associated plugins. Their work included the production of project material including meeting agendas, and WordPress technical documentation and migration configurations and scripts.
DePaul University
IT394-IT395 – Software Projects for Community Clients course
CC17 Design and build a new Android mobile app for a climate change application
2020-03-10 to 2020-05-01
We asked McNeese students to build a prototype mobile application that allows ordinary citizens to view actions they can take, track their progress, complete tasks, and upload proof (pictures and videos). They can also chat and request help from trusted authorities
McNeese State University
CSCI409 – Introduction to Mobile Application Development course
CC39 Determine Web Accessibility options for a citizen science website
2022-07-27 to 2022-10-31
The RMIT students were tasked with researching and documenting web accessibility standards that can apply to the citizen scientists web application we are building.
The students reviewed our citizen science website prototype to determine overall user experience accessibility assessment and design. The students were also tasked to recommend possible web accessibility standards.
RMIT -Melbourne
COSC2408 Course
CC40 Website SEO Optimization
2022-07-27 to 2022-10-31
The students were tasked with performing Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) on the website content and improving our positioning on a newly launched WordPress-based website OASIS (https://oasis.climatechange.ca/) which details programs and initiatives focused on combating Climate Change such as a subscription newsletter, research projects and news articles.
RMIT -Melbourne
COSC2408 Course
CC37 Prototype implementation of CKAN open data portal
2022-03-07 to 2022-08-12
The Humber college students investigated whether (and how) CKAN open data portal (https://ckan.org/) in Amazon Web Services cloud, could allow us to gather and share environmental data sets for our citizen science and climate change-related projects. While the project work was intended to be a working prototype, the results demonstrated use of Terraform to deploy AWS cloud components.
Humber College
CCGC5005/5505:Capstone Project
DSS6 Data Analyst Assistant
2022-09-06 to 2022-11-18
As part of the practicum, the Humber College student worked closely with us to complete business function tasks which included:
- Creation of data sets by researching open data sets around the world
- Investigation and primary research for the recent hurricane Fiona disaster-related information and data sets
- Creating data visualization using Tableau Desktop
- Created data schemas on frictionless data
Humber College
Data Analyst Course
CC44 Canadian Attitudes to Climate Change vs Local Environmental Conservation Round 2
2022-09-08 to 2022-12-08
From September to December 2019 (just before COVID lockdown) UVU students surveyed Canadian attitudes to taking action on climate change and local environment conservation. In the 3 years since that initial survey, Canada has suffered from the global pandemic as well as numerous major disasters exacerbated by climate change. We would therefore like to rerun this survey and see if there are different responses now (and ideally try to understand what those are).
Utah Valley University
MGMT6490 Course
CC35 -“Trust model” for verifying citizens scientists' observations
2022-09-09 to 2022-11-30
We are building a software prototype that allows citizens to submit photos and other “ground truth” observations to the Trusted Authorities, during/after floods. Please research and recommend a “trust model” – a set of processes that we can use in the citizen science web application.
Ontario Tech University
Capstone Project
CC42 Deploy Carbon Footprint & Net Zero Initiative
2023-01-04 to 2023-04-24
Help us analyze Deploy Solutions’ carbon footprint and form a plan to get to Net Zero. Our specific objectives are:
- Analyze Deploy Solutions and their service providers current carbon footprint
- Develop plan of action in response to the analysis
- Recommend how to publicly communicate Deploy Solutions’ efforts to
achieve carbon net zero
The University of Texas at Dallas
Capstone Project
CC0 Early Ideation for Climate Change R&D
June 2019 to early 2020
Create early mockups, wireframes, business canvases, and other ideation exercises to identify the potential audiences, functionality, and look and feel of a platform that would help prepare for, respond to, and recover from climate change impacts.