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DF Dickins Associates, LLC
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NewsLATEST NEWS  David Dickins DF Dickins Associates is leading a new Joint Industry Project to develop a specialized airborne ground penetrating radar (GPR) to detect oil spills trapped under ice. The radar will be designed and built by long-time colleagues at the Center for Geophysical Investigation of the Shallow Subsurface at Boise State University. Over the past six years, working with the Boise team, Dickins has directed a series of tank and field tests that successfully proved the ability to detect oil in ice and under snow with commercially available GPR. The new system is expected to greatly extend the range of ice conditions where airborne detection is reliable. Sponsors are: Alaska Clean Seas, ExxonMobil, Shell, Statoil, and the US Department of Interior Minerals Management Service. This latest project kicked off in January 2010 and is scheduled for completion in the fall of 2011. See Projects – Oil Spills for a synopsis of previous work in this area and links to published reports.
NEW PUBLICATIONS 
An abstract submitted to IceTech 2010 describes the results of a study completed in 2009 for the US Minerals Management Service – Sea Ice Overflood. See Projects – Environmental Studies. The conference is scheduled for September 2010 in Anchorage. http://www.icetech10.org/
Bradford, J.H., Dickins, D.F. and P.J. Brandvik. 2010. Assessing the potential to detect snow covered oil spills on sea ice using airborne ground-penetrating radar. Accepted for publication in Geophysics (date to be announced)
SINTEF JOINT INDUSTRY PROJECT:   Norwegian Polar Research Institute RV Lance used to support the 2009 field spills. Photo SINTEF Oil in Ice JIP  Swedish Q300 aircraft used as the main remote sensing aircraft in the 2009 field experiment. Source: Swedish Space Corporation This program is funded by a group of international oil companies and government agencies to advance the response capabilities available to deal with accidental oil spills in ice. The program is being run by SINTEF in Trondheim, Norway. DF Dickins Associates is a participating R&D organization charged with managing the remote sensing project within the overall program. Following successful research cruises in the Norwegian Barents Sea in 2008 and 2009, the project is now coming to a close. This is the most ambitious and complex Arctic spill research program ever attempted and the results will be used to guide oil spill response planning in future offshore development projects for years to come. Click here for a brochure describing the project. Dickins will present the results of the remote sensing project at the 33rd AMOP Technical Seminar on Environmental Contamination and Response, June 2010 in Halifax.
RECENT PROJECTS  Pollution patrol Dash 7 operated by Transport Canada on Arctic surveillance missions during the summer and fall. Photo: Environment Canada Dickins participated as part of a team led by SL Ross Environmental Research to review the state of oil spill knowledge for the Beaufort Sea for the Environmental Studies Research Funds. Dickins’ contribution focused on technologies for spill surveillance and tracking and long-term monitoring in ice-covered waters. The final report Review Of Oil Spill State Of Knowledge For The Beaufort Sea And Identification Of Key Issues will be available for public release in the spring of 2010.
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