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ID	AI Initiative	Current Status	Description	Sector	Region	AI Bucket	SME
162	Recherche et développement d’outils de vision automatisée pour l’étude des refuges marins des coraux et des éponges du golfe du Saint-Laurent.	Idea	Projet de contribution avec le Centre de développement et de recherche en intelligence numérique (CDRIN). L’objectif est de concevoir et dév...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Winegardner, Amanda
82	Conservation Benefits	Idea	This AI initiative aims to improve access to CSAS documents by developing an AI-powered interface that allows users to quickly search and ex...	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Newman, Candace
79	Biological models to support prioritzing salmon stocks under future climates	Idea	This project fits retrospective, life stage-specific models in a data-driven analytical framework to evaluate functional responses to climat...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Thompson, Patrick
77	Emulator for OPP port models and for relocatable ocean modelling system	Idea	Use machine learning to develop an emulator (or similar) for the OPP port models, which would be used to produce forecasts via inference. Th...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Dunphy, Michael
76	Chumputer Vision - salmon scale age predictive AI (See B8)	Idea	Deep Machine Learning and Convolutional Neural Network application for the predictive application of age assignment of Chum salmon by way of...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Perception and Understanding	Wischniowski, Stephen
75	Study on the use of Artificial Neural Networks to Predict the Return Timing and Northern Diversion Rate for Migrating Fraser River Sockeye Salmon	Idea	The Machine Learning feasibility study compliments the statistical approach by asking whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods can be de...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Automation and Decision Support	Thomson, Richard
73	Statistical Downscaling for the Ocean Working Group (SD-Ocean)	Idea	The Canada-wide working group is open to researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and the non-profit sector. The WG will foste...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Infrastructure and Enablement	Holdsworth, Amber
72	Extracting impacts data from regulatory documents	Idea	Use OCR pdf readers, topic detection and language models to detect specific data elements inside written text documents, for extraction and...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Perception and Understanding	Bird, Tom
71	News topic detection tool	Idea	Use large language models and topic clustering to read topics emerging in the news and detect which of those topics is relevant to DFO, as w...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Bird, Tom
67	Nearshore biotopes model	Idea	model to define and map nearshore biotope was developed and presented at CSAS Mar 3-4, 2025 - the paper was accepted with revisions but not...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Automation and Decision Support	Lessard, Joanne
62	Deep sea habitat, organism and object detection and identification.	Idea	Proposing a capstone project to Computer Science students from Camosun College to develop a pipeline for identifying objects and loading the...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Perception and Understanding	Best, Merlin
57	CSAS Knowledge Graph	Idea	Using LLM to extract ontologies and relationships within published CSAS reports into a Graph RAG so that users can visualize and query relat...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Quan, Eric
56	Method Recommendation Engine	Idea	A large language model reviews a scientist’s objective for collecting data in the field and based on the criteria, the model will provide th...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Automation and Decision Support	Quan, Eric
54	PII & Sensitivity Scores	On hold On hold	Determines the sensitivity of the content of a document based on a trained model and allows for the redaction of the sensitive material in t...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Automation and Decision Support	Quan, Eric
48	Classification AI	Idea	We are exploring using AI to help with job description writing and editing tasks, and initial tests using copilot have been helpful. It woul...	Human Resources and Corporate Services	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Gardner, Leigh
47	Recruitment and staffing tools	Idea	There are agents already created by vendors like Microsoft. We would love to explore them futher.	Human Resources and Corporate Services	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Gardner, Leigh
46	P&C General chatbot	Idea	Instead of using the intranet, this chatbot could help guide employees to P&C services. ADDED FROM ID 44: Use AI to determine the correct...	Human Resources and Corporate Services	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Gardner, Leigh
45	MyGCHR – Phoenix analysis tool	Idea	Pro B data would be needed, but feed MyGCHR and Phoenix records, but flag those that are incorrect in the hopes of training the AI to recogn...	Human Resources and Corporate Services	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Gardner, Leigh
43	PSPC Concierge	Idea	In partnership with CDOS and Pay Programs, we are agreeing to test the PSPC chatbot with 50 users, slated to start in June. This test will d...	Human Resources and Corporate Services	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Gardner, Leigh
35	AI-assisted Solution to Detect Ghost Gear from Side Scan Sonar Images	On hold On hold	The goal of the project is use AI to automate data analysis in detecting Ghost Gear. Client: Ghost Gear Program	Strategic Policy	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Petrovic, Marina
33	Machine-learning-assisted Benthic Marine Life Annotation Tool	On hold On hold	The goal of the project is to improve the efficiency of the image annotation process to reduce manual efforts of the benthic science team an...	Strategic Policy	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Wang, Yuchen
27	Turn on AI Auto labeling on all M365 documents and communications channels	Idea	Our E5 M365 licences grant access to AI based tools in Purview to automatically categorized documents and set labels accordingly. Model tra...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Automation and Decision Support	Bussieres, Martin
26	Generative AI in intranet Internet content creation	Idea	Integrate Generative AI capacity right into Drupal CMS to help users create draft content, ease translation, generate images, tags and metad...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Cognitive and Generative AI	Bussieres, Martin
25	Help DFO employees navigate CDOS structure and services	Idea	CDOS is a large and complex organisation. Leverage AI to help DFO user access services, understand organization structure, identify SME. Exp...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Interaction and Engagement	Bussieres, Martin
21	CSAS Knowledge Base Creation	Idea	This solution leverages the Radia AI Assistant developed by the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED). The purp...	—	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Johnston, Diane

162
Recherche et développement d’outils de vision automatisée pour l’étude des refuges marins des coraux et des éponges du golfe du Saint-Laurent.
Projet de contribution avec le Centre de développement et de recherche en intelligence numérique (CDRIN). L’objectif est de concevoir et développer un outil d’intelligence artificielle permettant de détecter et suivre les organismes benthiques filmés dans refuges marins des coraux et des éponges du Golfe du Saint-Laurent.

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
82
Conservation Benefits
This AI initiative aims to improve access to CSAS documents by developing an AI-powered interface that allows users to quickly search and extract relevant information. With CSAS documents as the backend, the tool will help identify and surface conservation benefit language for faster, more targeted use. IT led by ISED

Idea Programs Sector Cognitive and Generative AI
79
Biological models to support prioritzing salmon stocks under future climates
This project fits retrospective, life stage-specific models in a data-driven analytical framework to evaluate functional responses to climate variables across the salmon life cycle and make projections for how stocks will respond to climate change scenarios. This modelling approach is intended to be sufficiently flexible to incorporate variability in data quality. Large language models are being used to brainstorm modelling approaches and debug code. AI is not being tasked with developing these models. Large Language Models

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
77
Emulator for OPP port models and for relocatable ocean modelling system
Use machine learning to develop an emulator (or similar) for the OPP port models, which would be used to produce forecasts via inference. The inference is expected to be both faster and computationally cheaper than existing solutions. The training process would use existing model output from multi-year hindcasts. Success with a fixed location would graduate to developing a relocatable emulator TBD; could be U-Net or CNN, or based on GraphCast

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
76
Chumputer Vision - salmon scale age predictive AI (See B8)
Deep Machine Learning and Convolutional Neural Network application for the predictive application of age assignment of Chum salmon by way of scale images. Chum salmon has been selected as the gateway species due to its relatively easy scale pattern interpretation, this will foster the pathway forward for Chinook, Coho Sockeye and Herring as future targets for AI age interpretation. Deep Machine Learning and Convolutional Neural Network within a Python predictive algorithm

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
75
Study on the use of Artificial Neural Networks to Predict the Return Timing and Northern Diversion Rate for Migrating Fraser River Sockeye Salmon
The Machine Learning feasibility study compliments the statistical approach by asking whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods can be developed to predict salmon behaviour as functions of ocean conditions. classical machine learning models, including linear regression, Ridge regression, and Random Forest

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support
73
Statistical Downscaling for the Ocean Working Group (SD-Ocean)
The Canada-wide working group is open to researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and the non-profit sector. The WG will foster growth of a transdisciplenary research cluster at the forefront of the rapidly-developing field by sharing tools, devloping a network of practitioners, and working through specific examples (hackathons). The recent rapid growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides a set of Machine Learning (ML) tools for statistical downscaling

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Infrastructure and Enablement
72
Extracting impacts data from regulatory documents
Use OCR pdf readers, topic detection and language models to detect specific data elements inside written text documents, for extraction and analysis in a cumulative impacts context. Large lanugage models and topic clustering tools

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
71
News topic detection tool
Use large language models and topic clustering to read topics emerging in the news and detect which of those topics is relevant to DFO, as well as what knowledge DFO has available to address those topics. Large Language Models

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
67
Nearshore biotopes model
model to define and map nearshore biotope was developed and presented at CSAS Mar 3-4, 2025 - the paper was accepted with revisions but not to the methods. The model use sdmTMB to predict species and then use k-means clustering method to find species assemblages. Large datasets can be used. R scripts for sdmTMB, k-means cluster, figures

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support
62
Deep sea habitat, organism and object detection and identification.
Proposing a capstone project to Computer Science students from Camosun College to develop a pipeline for identifying objects and loading the results into Biigle for human review. TBD.

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
57
CSAS Knowledge Graph
Using LLM to extract ontologies and relationships within published CSAS reports into a Graph RAG so that users can visualize and query relationships between researches

Idea Programs Sector Cognitive and Generative AI
56
Method Recommendation Engine
A large language model reviews a scientist’s objective for collecting data in the field and based on the criteria, the model will provide the best procedure to use for their work

Idea Programs Sector Automation and Decision Support
54
PII & Sensitivity Scores
Determines the sensitivity of the content of a document based on a trained model and allows for the redaction of the sensitive material in the document. Presidio

On hold On hold Programs Sector Automation and Decision Support
48
Classification AI
We are exploring using AI to help with job description writing and editing tasks, and initial tests using copilot have been helpful. It would be nice to have a tool that could write and edit job descriptions, help analyse current job descriptions and help with SoMCs, etc… This wouldn’t need protected data for training, but we would need to upload classification documents needed for this type of work.

Idea Human Resources and Corporate Services Cognitive and Generative AI
47
Recruitment and staffing tools
There are agents already created by vendors like Microsoft. We would love to explore them futher.

Idea Human Resources and Corporate Services Automation and Decision Support
46
P&C General chatbot
Instead of using the intranet, this chatbot could help guide employees to P&C services. ADDED FROM ID 44: Use AI to determine the correct templatae response to client questions. We would like to use Protected B data (helpdesk requests already answered) as training data.

Idea Human Resources and Corporate Services Interaction and Engagement
45
MyGCHR – Phoenix analysis tool
Pro B data would be needed, but feed MyGCHR and Phoenix records, but flag those that are incorrect in the hopes of training the AI to recognize future incorrect entries and to help clean up pay files for employees. P&C is in negotiation currently with PSPC to ‘own’ our backlog of Phoenix cases, so this could be a big help.

Idea Human Resources and Corporate Services Automation and Decision Support
43
PSPC Concierge
In partnership with CDOS and Pay Programs, we are agreeing to test the PSPC chatbot with 50 users, slated to start in June. This test will determine if a chatbot is a viable solution to answer generic pay quests.

Idea Human Resources and Corporate Services Interaction and Engagement
35
AI-assisted Solution to Detect Ghost Gear from Side Scan Sonar Images
The goal of the project is use AI to automate data analysis in detecting Ghost Gear. Client: Ghost Gear Program

On hold On hold Strategic Policy Perception and Understanding
33
Machine-learning-assisted Benthic Marine Life Annotation Tool
The goal of the project is to improve the efficiency of the image annotation process to reduce manual efforts of the benthic science team and reduce time-to-insight from underwater surveys. Further development is prevented by DFO's IT infrastructure. There are ongoing discussions with CDOS to resolved this but the project is on hold in the meantime. Client: Quebec Region/Pacific Region - Oceans and Ecosystem Sciences Division

On hold On hold Strategic Policy Perception and Understanding
27
Turn on AI Auto labeling on all M365 documents and communications channels
Our E5 M365 licences grant access to AI based tools in Purview to automatically categorized documents and set labels accordingly. Model training would require attention of an Security/IM expert to make perfect. We may want to create specific AI specific labels to avoid conflicts with officials ones.

Idea Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support
26
Generative AI in intranet Internet content creation
Integrate Generative AI capacity right into Drupal CMS to help users create draft content, ease translation, generate images, tags and metadata. Technologie already exists, need to be security reviewed, integrated and configured. Challenge, web infrastructure team capacity

Idea Chief Digital Officer Cognitive and Generative AI
25
Help DFO employees navigate CDOS structure and services
CDOS is a large and complex organisation. Leverage AI to help DFO user access services, understand organization structure, identify SME. Expose know procedures and documentation through natural language. Using enterprise search, agents and other tools and technologies. Integrate existing tools such as Viva topics that already uses AI to identify expert based on multiple communication channels Right now multiple initiatives goes in this direction, but no unified vision, (pocket of knowledge) Currently not a great user experience, cdos internal staff oriented

Idea Chief Digital Officer Interaction and Engagement
21
CSAS Knowledge Base Creation
This solution leverages the Radia AI Assistant developed by the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED). The purpose of the initiative is to create a knowledge base of CSAS publications from the last 25 years. This knowledge base would allow anyone to leverage the AI Assistant to extract trends, data, and information in such a way as to plot new visualizations by unleashing the information held within the publication repository. This initiative has a Statement of Work with ISED and it is being scoped out for amount of work and cost. All indicators to date show that this is a very workable knowledge base development.

Idea Cognitive and Generative AI