The realities of introducing a research programme into a college

Mission Building Nova Scotia's economy and quality of life through education and innovation. Our Mission, and our legislation, makes research a legitimate part of our business

The Process College needs an approved research policy College should have an intellectual copyright policy College should have union agreements or mechanisms that allow faculty to do research, or allow researchers to teach Make sure that the proposed classification will have a salary range that will attract suitable personnel College should have a policy on ownership of materials – complicated in our case Make sure that accounting personnel understand the claims procedures

Process 2 Download the forms - these are computer entry only - you cannot submit separately Collect faculty cv’s which MUST show DEMONSTRATED research history Get letters of contributions from partners Outline what you want to do Outline what you need Demonstrate that what you want to do has implications both nationally and internationally Self evaluation process at this point

The practicals - or what we did Hire a consultant who knew the steps Form a research application team Be viciously self critical Use of “On-site” programme Work and REWORK and REWORK You can’t even bind it nicely!!

Partners Provide “in-kind” contribution May even ( should even ) provide money NSCC contribution - space, money for people, on-going

CFI Partners Multibeam bathymetry Airborne LIDAR CASI Image analysis software GIS Differential GPS Satellite stereo SAR Satellite interferometric SAR Traditional photogrammetry Aerde Environmental Research Atlantis Scientific Inc. Cdn. Seabed Research Ltd. CCRS Clean Annapolis River Project C2C Mining Corporation Fisheries & Oceans (CHS) GSC Atlantic Geomatics Canada GEOSurv Inc. Hyperspectral Data International Inc. Kongsberg Simrad NS Dept. Natural Resources NS Geomatics Centre PCI Geomatics Inc. Seaforth Engineering Ltd. Universal Systems Ltd. Environment Canada Ecological Sciences Environmental Protection Branch Technology Partners

Our proposal $ from CFI $ from the NS-Canada economic diversification fund $ from corporations/firms/other gov departments $ from NSCC 2 staff positions TOTAL – $2.7million plus

What we got $ from CFI $ from EDF plus our partner and NSCC contributions TOTAL - $2.38million plus

Research symposium More coming to us Business incubation International activity

History COGS awarded infrastructure funding for Geomatics research along the Atlantic Coastal Zone with multi-disciplinary applications to sustainable management. January 2000 Bob Maher and Tim Webster hired June 2000 Construction completed in Middleton June-August. Ground truthing for CASI, LIDAR, IKONOS September new Applied Geomatics Research program September Geomatics Atlantic workshop December COGS update workshop December.Web site available

What type of collaboration ? Resources –People –Equipment Support –Data

People Graduate students from other institutions working at AGRG AGRG students enrolled in graduate progams Industry internships for COGS students Government internships for COGS students Faculty cross-appointments Shared field crews

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Future plans Web site up Benefits - people coming to us wishing to partner, etc. More coming to us than we can handle Considerable contract research now evident Research symposium Business incubation International activity

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