{Ocean Solutions for Immune Boosting; Project location:Halifax, NS<br/>Project partners: AKSO Marine Biotech Inc., Atlantic Sea Cucumber Ltd., Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Atlantic Fishery Fund, National Research Council (NRC) - Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) PEI Bio Alliance, GreenShoots; <ul><li>Project partners will be using Atlantic sea cucumber to develop and launch a clinically proven novel human health product that can help ward off infectious diseases.</li><li>Total project budget: $2.32M / GIC funding: $0.52M</li></ul>; null,BridgeVue; Project location: Newfoundland and Labrador<br/>Project partners: Engage Creative Technologies, Mitacs, Petroleum Research Newfoundland and Labrador, Rutter, Marine Institute ? Centre for Marine Simulation, Robot Interactive + Marketing; <ul><li>This project leverages an emerging technology to enhance marine navigation by contextualizing radar data over an individual?s field of vision, in real time. By using an Augmented Reality (AR) headset, bridge crew can overlay critical information over their field of vision, even when visibility is near zero, increasing their situational awareness.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.42M / GIC funding: $0.17M</li></ul>; null,The Autonomous COMPASS	; Project location: Nova Scotia<br/>Project partners: Sensor Technology Ltd.,
Kraken Robotic Systems Inc.,
3D Wave Design; <ul><li>This project will develop a portable, embedded passive acoustic capability which will allow data to be collected and analyzed in-real time, onboard an untethered autonomous underwater vehicle. This new technology will allow for faster, reliable and affordable data acquisition with applications in defence, oceanographic research, marine mammal protection activities, and energy exploration.</li><li>Total project budget: $2.98M / GIC funding: $1.62M</li></ul>; null,Orca; Project location: Alberta<br/>Project partners: Katal Energy Inc., Valeant Low Carbon Technologies Inc., Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), Mitacs, Deepsense, Spearhead; <ul><li>Project partners will be working together to advance the development of a lower carbon fuel to reduce dependency on diesel for ocean vessels, harbour vessels, cruise ships, ferries, barges, terminal operations, and other marine machinery. The project aims to help grow the ocean economy in a digital, sustainable, and inclusive way.</li><li>Total project budget: $4.25M / GIC funding: $2M</li></ul>; null,Autonomous Remote Offshore Wind Inspection, Navigation and Deployment (AROWIND); Project location:Waterloo, ON<br/>Project partners: Voyis, Deep Trekker, HydroSurv Unmanned Survey Inc., EVIA, Sonardyne, Saipem; <ul><li>This consortium will be developing an uncrewed surface vessel (USV)-based subsea inspection solution for offshore windfarm inspection. This project will result in a prevailing ocean solution that will vastly reduce operational costs.</li><li>Total project budget: $6.66M / GIC funding: $2.98M</li></ul>; null,ROC Fishing System; Project location:  Nova Scotia/Newfoundland<br/>Project partners: Ashored Inc., eSonar Inc.; <ul><li>This project will develop and commercialize ropeless or rope-on-command (ROC) fishing solutions to help address global problems including vertical line entanglements, plastic pollution, and ?ghost fishing? caused by abandoned, lost, and discarded fishing gear.</li><li>Total project budget: $1.35M / GIC funding: $0.65M</li></ul>; null,Field Validation of Energy Storage System ; Project location: British Columbia<br/>Project partners: Corvus Energy, Seaspan Ferries Corp., Hydro BC, University of Vancouver, BC Ferries ; <ul><li>This project will introduce a novel battery-based Energy Storage Systems (ESS) suited for larger marine vessels to achieve significant greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions in Canada and worldwide.</li><li>Total project budget: $4.15M / GIC funding: $2M</li></ul>; null,Offshore Connected Worker Mixed Reality Application; Project location: St. John's, NL<br/>Project partners: Horizon Maritime, Allswater Marine, ShipReality Inc., VMG Investigative Consulting, Rimot, C-CORE, Kognitiv Spark, Kinduct; <ul><li>This project will implement Connected Worker (CW) technologies offshore in a digital twin environment, reducing the risks and adding value for offshore marine operations by addressing challenges and inefficiencies. This new capability of remote monitoring of assets, and monitoring of personnel allows for reduction of personnel onboard by using data and machine learning to optimize roles, prevent equipment failures, optimize vessel operations, and increase safety of the crew.</li><li>Total project budget: $2.94M / GIC funding: $1.47M</li></ul>; null,Coastal Incident Management System; Project location:Nanaimo, BC<br/>Project partners: Shift Environmental, T'Souke, Saab, Blue Node, Western Canada Marine Response Corporation Head Office (WCMRC), Canadian Coast Guard (DFO), National Indigenous Fisheries Institute (NIFI); <ul><li>This project will provide coastal, Indigenous, and rural communities with a cost-effective rapid response package which will include a mobile command, control and communications system, data analysis tool, and mobile spill response platform for marine emergencies.</li><li>Total project budget: $10.48M / GIC funding: $4.39M</li></ul>; null,Crowdsourced Wind Maps: A New Type of Data for Marine Weather & Navigation; Project location: Halifax, NS<br/>Project partners: SailTimer, Canadian Yachting, IIC Technologies, MarksetBOT, McBride Racing, Navcast, StormGlass AB, Weather Tactics; <ul><li>This project will use connected wind sensors on boats to improve the resolution of marine weather forecasts. Unlike satellite imaging, using actual wind measurements provides much higher resolution than has ever been possible. This solution improves marine weather and navigation for all types of boating/shipping, and opens new growth and revenue opportunities for Canadian companies.</li><li>Total project budget: $1.78M / GIC funding: $0.54M</li></ul>; null,Marine Search and Rescue Simulation; Project location: Newfoundland / Nova Scotia<br/>Project partners: Bluedrop Learning Networks, Cougar Helicopters Inc., Memorial University of Newfoundland
; <ul><li>This project will deliver a new device and capability to train search and rescue (SAR) operators under realistic mission scenarios including turbulent flow zones, sea state, complex ship and offshore installation geometries and rescue rafts, while simulating the full array of harsh East coast and arctic environmental conditions.</li><li>Total project budget: $2.06M / GIC funding: $1.03M</li></ul>; null,Unmanned Digital Twinning of Underwater Assets; Project location: Nova Scotia and Newfoundland<br/>Project partners: Welaptega Marine, Whitecap Scientific, SubC Imaging; <ul><li>This project will develop an innovative product that will enable the digital twinning of underwater infrastructures, without the need for external specialists working in remote offshore locations. Once the product launches, conventional offshore remote-operated vehicles/vessel crew will be able to confidently collect high quality image data for post-processing digital twins, guided by way of real-time 3D reconstruction giving feedback on image quality and coverage.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.59M / GIC funding: $0.32M</li></ul>; null,Port Integration and Enhancement of Data (PIED) ; Project location: Nova Scotia<br/>Project partners: BlueNode Inc., Saab Technologies Canada, National Research Council, Halifax Port Authority ; <ul><li>This project is developing software products to enhance the ability to collect ocean data and facilitate more effective and efficient ocean operations. These new technologies will enhance specific supply chain data quality through machine learning applications, enhance business intelligence by developing customers' competitive position and improve the interoperability of data between different actors in the supply chain.</li><li>Total project budget: $3.17M / GIC funding: $1.06M</li></ul>; null,Integrated Operations and Real-Time Analytics; Project location: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia<br/>Project partners: Grieg NL, Hi-Tech Comms, AKVA Group, Innovasea, Sub-C Imaging; <ul><li>This project will bridge gaps between land, sea-based, and processing operations that exist in the aquaculture industry today by providing real-time information, analytics and environmental connectivity to improve overall operations.</li><li>Total project budget: $26.83M / GIC funding: $12M</li></ul>; null,Development of Miniaturized Piezocomposite Sonar Transducer ; Project location: Ontario / Nova Scotia<br/>Project partners: Sensor Technology Ltd., NorthEastern Micro, Kraken Robotics; <ul><li>This project will develop a customizable solution to improve the quality of the images and scans from inspections of underwater assets in remote locations, using miniaturized piezocomposite sonar transducers, which will allow end users to make quicker and more reliable decisions. ?This made in Canada?solution?will create?new domestic and export opportunities, skilled jobs and supply chain opportunities.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.91M / GIC funding: $0.57M</li></ul>; null,Digital IoT; Project location: Newfoundland and Labrador<br/>Project partners: Rutter Inc., Husky Energy, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, 
NRC-IRAP; <ul><li>This project supports collaborative R&D that will result in an Internet of Things (IoT) enabled solution providing remote monitoring as a Managed Service. The project will enhance Canada's competitive position on the international stage in radar system data acquisition and cloud-based storage & analytics. It will also enable data collection that will enhance further collaboration with academic, government and other industrial partners.</li><li>Total project budget: $3.17M / GIC funding: $0.72M</li></ul>; null,Resident Autonomous Aquaculture Cage Inspection and Reporting System; Project location:Kitchener, ON<br/>Project partners: Deep Trekker, Visual Defence Inc., MOWI Canada East; <ul><li>This project will focus on the opportunity to further enhance operations and work toward a proactive approach to fish farming inspection and maintenance. It will develop a new remote aquaculture monitoring solution, using in-cage autonomous vehicle technology, deployed in net cages on a periodic basis to perform inspections through various trophic levels.</li><li>Total project budget: $6.24M / GIC funding: $3.05M</li></ul>; null,Geoscan; Project location:St. John's, NL<br/>Project partners: PanGeo Subsea Inc., Cellula Robotics, Marine Institute of Memorial University; <ul><li>This project will provide an innovative solution to de-risk offshore wind, oil and gas, and other offshore installations by implementing wider scanning functions in underwater robotic systems. This technology will lead to a reduction of personnel offshore, faster data collection, and improved efficiencies that will support Canada?s commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050, while also advancing Canada?s leadership in the global blue economy.</li><li>Total project budget: $3.41M / GIC funding: $2M</li></ul>; null,OceanVision; Project location: Various, NL and NS<br/>Project partners: Kraken Robotics, Petroleum Research Newfoundland & Labrador, Ocean Choice International, Nunavut Fisheries Association, NRC, Government of Newfoundland  ; <ul><li>These project partners will develop a turnkey service solution for the collection of seafloor imaging and mapping to be used by a number of ocean industries, including oil and gas, fishing, hydrographic, search and salvage, and military and defence. This new underwater service hub uses new marine technologies and products to produce high-resolution images of the seafloor, and will reduce the cost and risk of operating in ocean environments.   </li><li>Total project budget: $18.78M / GIC funding: $6.26M</li></ul>; null,Digital Ship In-Service Support System ; Project location: Newfoundland<br/>Project partners: Seaspan Shipyards, Genoa Design; <ul><li>This project combines on-board vessel sensor and digital twin technologies for vessel management and maintenance through an advanced technology platform. This new platform will help vessel designers, builders, operators and maintainers more efficiently manage vessel lifecycle; reduce down-time for repair and maintenance by providing predictive information; improve vessel design and construction to reduce costs; and integrate multiple data sources by leveraging the language of visualization. It will help make Canada more globally competitive, drive export opportunities, and create jobs in the marine sector.</li><li>Total project budget: $3.08M / GIC funding: $2M</li></ul>; null,Split PM Hybrid Propulsion Motor; Project location: Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia<br/>Project partners: DuXion Motors, Aspin Kemp & Associates; <ul><li>This project will develop a hybrid diesel-electric system to make the hybridization of existing vessels worldwide a financially viable option. It will utilize advanced permanent magnet motor technology to provide both Canadian and vessel clients around the world with a propulsion system that reduces not only maintenance and fuel costs, but also GHG emissions and carbon footprint.</li><li>Total project budget: $1.68M / GIC funding: $1.09M</li></ul>; null,Ocean DNA System; Project location: Various, NL<br/>Project partners: eDNAtec, Petroleum Research Newfoundland and Labrador (PRNL), Nunavut Fisheries Association, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), IBM

; <ul><li>Project partners will work in collaboration to revolutionize the development and commercialization of genomics solutions in order to modernize the way we monitor, measure and assess fish stocks and characterize the ocean.</li><li>Total project budget: $4.91M / GIC funding: $2.21M</li></ul>; null,Mobile and Mixed Reality Virtual Technician and Maintenance Software; Project location: Halifax, NS<br/>Project partners: Modest Tree, RENK Canada, Microsoft Canada; <ul><li>This project will develop an integrated service-hub, "Tech Companion", that centralizes data in a remotely accessible, intelligent, and automated digital ecosystem for use in ocean industries. The project has goal to connect technicians across the globe and facilitate the collection of core data, including condition-based monitoring of equipment, task level instructions, structured reporting, and augmented reality training to support tasks on demand.</li><li>Total project budget: $2.22M / GIC funding: $1.17M</li></ul>; null,Indigenous Career Pivot Pilot; Project location: Truro, NS<br/>Project partners: Ulnooweg Development Group, JEDI, College of the North Atlantic; <ul><li>This pilot program aims to facilitate and support meaningful work placements for Indigenous peoples wishing to explore career options in the ocean economy.  The project will support the employment of approximately 10 Indigenous peoples in Ocean Cluster member organizations for 12-month placements. Participants will gain valuable experience in a new industry and will enhance their knowledge through placements that complement their existing skillset and natural aptitudes. </li><li>Total project budget: $0.74M / GIC funding: $0.55M</li></ul>; null,Ocean Startup; Project location: Various, NB, NL, NS and PEI<br/>Project partners: The Genesis Centre, Innovacorp, PEI Bioalliance, New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, Dalhousie University, Springboard Atlantic, Mitacs, ACOA, (Provincial Governments) ; <ul><li>Through this project, partners will be supporting the development of ocean technology start-ups and increasing the industrial use of marine technologies. This innovative project will address talent challenges by growing the ocean workforce, helping new businesses hire employees with the skill sets they need. In addition, the project will encourage the participation of under-represented groups such as women and Indigenous groups in this vital economic sector. </li><li>Total project budget: $7.1M / GIC funding: $4.08M</li></ul>; null,Ocean Aware; Project location: Various, NS<br/>Project partners: Innovasea, Emera, Xeos Technologies, Dartmouth Ocean Technologies, Ocean Choice International, DFO, The Ocean Tracking Network, Irving Shipbuilding, Dalhousie University, Memorial University of Newfoundland
; <ul><li>This project will develop next-generation underwater observation systems for deployment in zones of high commercial interest to enable both Canadian and global ocean industries to balance business efficiency and profitability with sustainable ocean business practices. The technologies and information-sharing concepts developed will improve monitoring capabilities over wide areas of ocean and will allow such monitoring to be done more economically and more quickly. </li><li>Total project budget: $29.39M / GIC funding: $13.72M</li></ul>; null,CoLab Enterprise - 3D Engineering Review, Communication & Collaboration Hub; Project location: Newfoundland<br/>Project partners: CoLab Software Inc., Genoa Design, Kraken Robotics, PRNL 
; <ul><li>This project aims to build and commercialize a highly configurable, enterprise-ready communication platform that supports the future of Agile Model-Based Enterprises and Digital Twin Solutions. This new platform will contribute to Canada?s competitive advantage in the management of complex engineering projects, using a cloud-based solution that combines 3D design review technology and mechanical issue tracking to securely support thousands of users working together in real-time.</li><li>Total project budget: $2.8M / GIC funding: $1.63M</li></ul>; null,Smart Protective Coatings; Project location: Halifax, NS<br/>Project partners: Graphite Innovation Technologies (GIT), Horizon Maritime Services Ltd., Netukulimk Fisheries Limited (NFL), Mitacs; <ul><li>This project will develop and commercialize new graphene-based protective coating products for vessels. These coatings provide a number of advantages to marine industries including reduced fuel consumption for vessels, non-toxic protection, and reduced underwater radiant noise. The products will not only help position Canada as a global hub of ocean innovation, but also deliver shared competitive advantages in accessing those world-wide market opportunities across different ocean sectors - particularly with its environmental focus. </li><li>Total project budget: $4.65M / GIC funding: $2.24M</li></ul>; null,Precision Fish Harvesting; Project location:Halifax, NS<br/>Project partners: Katchi, Scotia Harvest Inc., ABCO Industries Inc., MITACS, National Research Council (NRC) - Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP), NRC ; <ul><li>This project will develop a "SmartNet" using herding and deterring technology. It seeks to deploy uncrewed service vessels (USVs) to improve the efficiency of conventional trawl fishing, and to reduce bycatching and seabed contact.</li><li>Total project budget: $3.26M / GIC funding: $1.59M</li></ul>; null,Bubble Diffuser Aeration Entrainment Monitor ; Project location: British Columbia<br/>Project partners: ASL Environmental Sciences, MOWI Canada West; <ul><li>This project will develop a real-time entrainment monitoring system for aquaculture fish farms in complex coastal ocean environments  ensuring the effectiveness of bubble systems in aquaculture while reducing costs and emissions associated with fish-farming operations. The products and related services will allow customers to reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the fish mortality from high surface temperatures and harmful algal blooms.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.5M / GIC funding: $0.32M</li></ul>; null,Tallybot 	; Project location: British Columbia<br/>Project partners: ThisFish Inc., Orca Specialty Food Ltd., Hardy Buoys Smoke Fish Inc., McGill University ? Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry, York University, Eurofish S.A.		
				; <ul><li>Project partners will be working together to develop predictive and prescriptive machine learning (ML) algorithms?branded Tallybots? to help optimize fish plant and cannery operations. Tallybots will help processors maximize yields, improve quality and reduce data errors and noncompliance.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.87M / GIC funding: $0.5M</li></ul>; null,Ocean Allies; Project location: National<br/>Project partners: Pisces Research Project Management, Upswing Consulting Solutions, Huntsman Marine Centre, Assembly of First Nations, BioNB, Center for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship (COVE), Irving Shipbuilding, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Ocean Technology Council of Nova Scotia (OTCNS), Ocean Advance, PanGeo Subsea, Synapse PEI, Mitacs
; <ul><li>This innovation ecosystem project will foster a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable space in the ocean economy for untapped communities, through partnerships with key ocean sector organizations and targeted strategic activities.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.42M / GIC funding: $0.25M</li></ul>; null,Building an Inclusive Workforce for Innovative Arctic Ocean Technology; Project location: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Newfoundland, and Quebec<br/>Project partners: SmartICE Sea-Ice Monitoring & Information Inc., Pinnguaq Association, Nunavut Fisheries Association, Ilitaqsiniq Literacy Council, Social Research and Demonstration Corporation 
; <ul><li>This ecosystem-building projectseeks to provide technical skills training for Inuit participants across Inuit Nunangat. The holistic and culturally contextualized training curriculum will address the barriers faced by Inuit in remote northern communities and promote their inclusion and participation in the ocean economy. </li><li>Total project budget: $1.79M / GIC funding: $1.15M</li></ul>; null,Blue Futures Pathways; Project location: National<br/>Project partners: Students on Ice Foundation, Centre for Ocean Venture Entrepreneurship (COVE), ECO Canada, Mitacs
; <ul><li>This ecosystem-building project will connect youth across Canada with education and employment, and support participants in developing a successful career in the sustainable blue economy. The initative is supportive of all youth aged 18-30 and will have a particular focus on the inclusion and inspiration of under-represented, remotely located, and Indigenous people.</li><li>Total project budget: $2.41M / GIC funding: $1.49M</li></ul>; null,CARIS Cloud Technology; Project location: New Brunswick<br/>Project partners: Teledyne CARIS, Ocean Floor Geophysics,
Marine Institute, UNB - Ocean Mapping Group (OMG), Interdisciplinary Development Centre for Ocean Mapping (CIDCO), Hydrospatial International Inc. (H2i); <ul><li>This project will develop and utilize highly specialized software in the Cloud that will reduce the need for operators in the field, and enable increased processing and quality control from an office or home setting.  The techbology developed through this project will bring efficiencies, cost savings and reduce human risk particularly for higher risk, high priority areas where measurements are currently conducted using regular field surveys.</li><li>Total project budget: $2.13M / GIC funding: $0.94M</li></ul>; null,Ocean Energy Smart Grid Integration Project	; Project location: Ontario<br/>Project partners: BMT Canada, Sustainable Marine Energy; <ul><li>This project will enable the cost-effective integration of Ocean Energy Generators (OEG) into communities. Many remote coastal communities are not connected to national electrical grids, and the cost of integrating new  green energy generation alternatives is high due to the need for customization. This project standardizes the smart grid through the ?Microgrid Interface Unit? (MIU). This will result in reduced dependency on diesel generators in rural communities and increase the opportunity for renewable sources of energy.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.98M / GIC funding: $0.63M</li></ul>; null,BlueVita Technology; Project location: St. Andrews, NB<br/>Project partners: Ship Nature?s Way Inc., GIS Gas Infusion Systems, Ocean Perfect Holding BV, Huntsman Marine Science Centre, Membertou First Nation, Kingsclear First Nation, Pabineau First Nation, Current Water Technologies Inc.; <ul><li>This project will introduce new technologies for the mobile storage and transport of aquatic life through a novel, best-in-class, multi-modal system. The system controls and manages the storage and transport environment, maintains product quality, reduces shrinkage, and provides high animal welfare standards.?The?project will also address significant challenges faced by the seafood sector in Canada and around the globe, this includes undervalued seafood that has been frozen due to seasonal harvests. This project will also enable access to high-end markets that are currently constrained by air transport costs, complicated shipping logistics, or other factors.</li><li>Total project budget: $1.68M / GIC funding: $0.83M</li></ul>; null,Marine Safety Training Online; Project location: St. John's, NL<br/>Project partners: Virtual Marine Technology Inc., Survival Systems Training Limited, Memorial University; <ul><li>This project will accelerate mixed-reality safety training development to offer faster and more accessible digital training options across marine industries. Mariners are essential workers and require regular training to maintain critical skills. Digital training, including simulation, is increasingly popular in the marine industry due to reduced risk and costs, and the ease of access to training. In building the desktop simulators, developing the software, and organizing the online digital content, this project will expand the opportunities for marine training on land.</li><li>Total project budget: $1.8M / GIC funding: $0.7M</li></ul>; null,XO-G2; Project location: Nova Scotia<br/>Project partners:  XOcean Canada Ltd., XOcean Ltd., ABCO Industries, DMR Boat Design, Ocean Floor Geophysics, Department of Oceans and Fisheries
; <ul><li>Marine industries are seeking safer, lower cost, unmanned solutions for collecting ocean data. This project will develop the next generation of Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) that addresses these challenges and expands existing capabilities to survey faster, deeper, further offshore with negligible carbon emissions.</li><li>Total project budget: $3.36M / GIC funding: $2M</li></ul>; null,Vitality; Project location: Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Quebec, and British Columbia<br/>Project partners:  Pisces Research Project Management, Dalhousie University, Perennia Food and Agriculture Inc., Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE), University of Victoria, St-Lawrence Global Observatory (SLGO), Tula Foundation, Marine Renewables Canada (MRC), COIN Atlantic 
; <ul><li>This innovation ecosystem project will leverage Canada?s ocean data to deliver definitive commercial outcomes to the businesses involved by advancing ocean data analysis, management and visualization capabilities, and products.</li><li>Total project budget: $3.8M / GIC funding: $1.5M</li></ul>; null,Blue Mentorship and Leadership Pathways; Project location: Calgary, AB<br/>Project partners: ECO Canada, Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurs (COVE), College of the North Atlantic (CNA), Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), Future Skills Canada, Joint Economic Development Initiative (JEDI); <ul><li>This project aims to build a more robust and innovative marine sector by increasing diversity and creating a system for professional enhancement within the sector through the use of a strong and sustainable mentorship network.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.92M / GIC funding: $0.46M</li></ul>; null,Automated Pipeline Inspection for Small AUVs ; Project location: Ontario<br/>Project partners: 2G Robotics, Ocean Floor Geophysics (OFG), EIVA, L3Harris OceanServer, Ocean Infinity; <ul><li>In response to expanding market demand for more efficient ocean floor inspection capabilities, this project will deliver a commercially ready survey payload for automated underwater vehicles (AUV), for immediate adoption by inspection companies to improve their capability and cost efficiency. This collaboration between domestic and international partners will accelerate the proliferation of advanced ocean technology, strengthen the Canadian digital workforce, and deliver long term growth in Canada?s ocean economy.  	</li><li>Total project budget: $1.72M / GIC funding: $0.99M</li></ul>; null,HydroSpark; Project location: New Brunswick<br/>Project partners: Kognitiv Spark, Kraken Robotics, University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick Community College; <ul><li>This project will focus on emerging mixed reality technologies to develop a secure ocean data visualization and collaboration application using the Microsoft HoloLens 2 and Microsoft Azure Mixed Reality Services. This application will visualize underwater environments in 3D mixed reality to support training, mission planning and rehearsal, and support defence and other marine sector underwater operations.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.87M / GIC funding: $0.4M</li></ul>; null,Clean Ocean Advanced Biofuels; Project location: Dartmouth, NS<br/>Project partners: Valent Low Carbon Technology, FORGE-Sombra Corporation, Mara Renewables, Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), Shell Canada, Clearwater, Katal Energy, Horizon Maritime; <ul><li>Project partners will be working together to produce Canada?s first renewable diesel from abundantly available agricultural and forestry by-products. A major ocean industry challenge is the need for a range of environmentally sustainable, low greenhouse gas (GHG) emission, and low-sulphur marine fuels for end-users at a competitive cost that are compliant with fuel regulations. This project will address this challenge by introducing a low carbon biofuel across the marine ecosystem.</li><li>Total project budget: $65.06M / GIC funding: $5.87M</li></ul>; null,Advancing Smart Integrated Ocean Sensors ; Project location: Ottawa, ON<br/>Project partners: RBR Sensors, Oceans Network Canada, Dalhousie University, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) ; <ul><li>This project will bring state-of-the-art ocean environmental monitoring sensors into the ocean?s autonomous platforms to measure ocean health. These sensors will reduce power, lower costs, enable better system integration, and improve measurements with higher stability and data quality protocols.</li><li>Total project budget: $3.59M / GIC funding: $1.99M</li></ul>; null,Digital Offshore Canada; Project location: Newfoundland and Labrador<br/>Project partners: Petroleum Research Newfoundland and Labrador (PRNL), Hatch Ltd., MNP, Virtual Marine, GRI Simulations 
	; <ul><li>Digital Offshore Canada will bring together shared ocean, asset and operational data into a common platform, and applies value-adding analytical tools (machine learning, optimization, artificial intelligence, and visualization). This project enables the creation of digital twins, which provide powerful ?sandboxes? for innovation,  builds capacity and accelerates the digitalization of ocean industries. </li><li>Total project budget: $18M / GIC funding: $9M</li></ul>; null,Sustainable Protein for Aquaculture: A Circular Approach to the Feed Supply Chain; Project location: Halifax, NS<br/>Project partners: DeNova Inc., CFFI Ventures, Natural Products Canada, The Centre for Aquaculture Technologies Canada, National Research Council of Canada - IRAP,  Atlantic Canada Opportunities, Dalhousie University, Cooke Aquaculture, ExxonMobil ; <ul><li>This project aims to develop and commercialize two breakthrough technologies to produce an environmentally sustainable and low-cost protein for the aquaculture industry while reducing oil and gas emissions. The project will take greenhouse gas emissions from upstream oil and gas and convert them into a high-value protein product to be used to feed farmed fish.</li><li>Total project budget: $6M / GIC funding: $2.25M</li></ul>; null,Critical Intervention and Operability Analysis for Digital Ocean Operations (CRIOP-DO); Project location:St. John's, NL<br/>Project partners: Energy Research & Innovation Newfoundland and Labrador (ERI), National Research Council, Oceans, Coastal and Rivers Engineering, Lloyd's Register, Atlantic Towing, Memorial University; <ul><li>This project will build upon Norway?s successful Crisis Intervention and Operability Analysis (CRIOP) model to establish a Canadian methodology to demonstrate safety and reliability assurance of critical, complex digital ocean systems, and support regulatory compliance. Project partners will be working together to focus strategically on human-machine interfaces in normal and abnormal operating scenarios, supporting regulators? confidence in digital technologies and ensuring alignment with evolving Canadian regulatory reforms and industry advancement.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.47M / GIC funding: $0.09M</li></ul>; null,Fishless Marine Microbial Fish Oil; Project location: Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick<br/>Project partners: Mara Renewables Corporation
Nature?s Way Canada, Algorithm Ingredients Inc. ; <ul><li>Project partners will be working together to develop a sustainable alga-based nutritional oil that fully mimics and complements the health benefits of fish oil consumption. </li><li>Total project budget: $2.88M / GIC funding: $1.79M</li></ul>; null}